City Desk » turtle http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk D.C. News, Politics, Media, Arts, and More Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:50:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Turtle Leads Scientists to Marijuana Farm in Rock Creek Park http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/07/31/turtle-leads-scientists-to-marijuana-farm-in-rock-creek-park/ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/07/31/turtle-leads-scientists-to-marijuana-farm-in-rock-creek-park/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:11:53 +0000 Brianne Downing http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=6188 Watch out, drug-sniffing dogs: You've got some competition.

According to an MSNBC.com article posted this morning, a turtle fitted with a GPS device meandered into a remote area of Rock Creek Park and led a National Park Service employee to a marijuana-growing operation.

A National Park Service employee was tracking a turtle with the gadget for research when the turtle wandered into a small marijuana field in a remote part of Rock Creek Park.

U.S. Park police were called and surveillance was set up to monitor the area. Police discovered a man taking care of about 10 marijuana plants in the field.

U.S. Park police and Montgomery County police arrested Isiah Johnson, 19, in Chevy Chase Wednesday.

Nice work, little turtle. I bet Mr. Johnson wasn't expecting to be caught like that.

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