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HARTSVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A cave northeast of Nashville customized to be an underground marijuana farm has been sold at auction to a cheese-making company from Wisconsin.
For several years, the 90-foot deep cave in Hartsville had been used as a clandestine pot farm by a now-jailed entrepreneur who reportedly spent $750,000 to customize it, The Tennessean reported.
The courts ordered the property auctioned along with seven surrounding acres of land, with the proceeds going to fund undercover work by the 15th Judicial District Drug Task Force, the report said.
Saturday, after a half-hour bidding war in one of the cavernous rooms, a representative of Roth Kase USA Ltd., which manufactures European-style cheeses, won out with a bid of $285,000, the report said.
The company's bidder, Chuck Olson, was tight-lipped about the company's plan for the cave apart from saying the company's activities would be legal "in a tasty way."
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