Huge Weed Bust Puts Easter Egg Hunt On Hold: Police

Residents of a "quiet" neighborhood were treated to an Easter egg hunt that was anything but when a man screaming that his roommates were trying to shoot him led authorities to a 45-pound-plus weed bust, police said.

A neighborhood in Salmon Creek, Washington — just across the river to the North of Portland — was having an Easter egg hunt on Saturday evening, according to the Clark County Sheriff's Office, when things took a dark turn.

First, a man started "screaming that his roommates were going to shoot him," police said. When sheriff's deputies arrived, police said, they found out there was something bigger going on: a massive illegal marijuana-selling operation.

After detectives got a search warrant for the home (along with four vehicles), police said, they pulled in a pretty impressive haul: more than 45 pounds of pot worth more than $200,000 and more than $100,000 in drug money.

You can check out the stash in the photo above.

Three Vancouver, Washington, men were booked into the county jail, one on possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and the other two for a felony drug warrant out of Missouri, police said.

There was no word on how many Easter eggs the suspects had found before they were locked up.

Image via Clark County Sheriff's Office