Pot Plants Discovered and Destroyed; Spotted by State Police in Helicopter

A summertime fly-over of Cheshire by the Connecticut State Police located 49 marijuana plants in a heavily wooded area on Monday.

Cheshire Police Department spokesman Lt. James Fasano said Tuesday that aerial searches are typically done this time of year. "They look for areas that are cleared," he said. 

No arrests have been made, Fasano said. "We've found (plants) before in Cheshire with helicopters and our ATVs. Those officers look too," he said.

A statement from the state police said the state's narcotics task force and a counter-drug aviation unit from the Massachusetts National Guard made flights over Cheshire and found several sites where marijuana was being grown in the woods.

Detectives on the ground located 49 marijuana plants and destroyed them, according to the statement.