Pot plants found 30 feet up holly tree

Police make marijuana busts every day. But a drug seizure in Westport has even the police scratching their heads. Several marijuana plants were discovered growing in a holly tree, about 30 feet in the air.

“Everyone felt that the bags concealed some sort of crime or illegal material however, no one expected to see plants growing inside the bags intertwined within the trees leaves. It was a first for the officers involved in the case,” said Westport Police Detective Jeff Majewski in a police department statement released Tuesday.

Police responded to the Holly Trail area in Westport Harbor July 15 after a caller told police he observed a least two burlap sacks in the tree.

Once officers arrived they used binoculars to try and determine what was in the bags. That was unsuccessful, but they said a thermal imager showed heat coming from the bags.

Investigators then called in a hydraulic-lift bucket truck from the Westport Highway Department to assist. It was then the officers discovered the three burlap bags contained contained several marijuana plants at different stages of growth. The largest plant, they said, was about five-feet tall.