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Historic $208K pot bust

OREGON - Christmas came early for drug investigators sniffing around a family-owned tree farm in southern Ogle County, where they found more marijuana plants than blue spruce saplings. Illinois State Police on Tuesday seized 208 marijuana plants growing amid the Christmas trees on Lighthouse Road, between Daysville and Lowden Roads. A pound of processed marijuana found on the 17-acre farm was among the seized drugs, which have a street value of $208,000, making this one of the biggest marijuana raids in Sauk Valley history, police said. William L. Marshall, 61, of Yorkville, and Brian W. Marshall, 31, of Montgomery, were in Ogle County Jail today on $200,000 bond and could face 2 to 24 years in prison if convicted of growing or conspiring t

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