A Westport Island man was arrested Jan. 7 after police discovered his home was being used to grow large amounts of marijuana.
Matthew Olsen, 29, turned himself into agents with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Jan. 7. He is charged with Aggravated Cultivation of Marijuana and Felony Possession of Marijuana class C. The cultivation charge was aggravated due to prior felony drug convictions.
Olsen was taken to Two Bridges Jail. His bail was set at $500 cash.
According to a statement issued by MDEA Director Roy E. McKinney and Special Agent Supervisor of the MDEA’s Mid-Coast Regional Task Force James Pease, MDEA agents and Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant at Olsen’s residence Jan. 4 after an investigation by state and federal DEA agents and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office determined the house was being used to grow large amounts of marijuana.
During a search of the premises, agents seized 69 high grade marijuana plants in various stages of growth, about $6000 in indoor growing equipment and about two pounds of processed marijuana.
The house was set up with three different grow rooms, two of which were not being used at the time. The plants would most likely produce about one-half, to three-quarter pound of marijuana per plant at a value of about $2000 a pound.
Olsen was not home at the time the warrant was executed.
