{"id":1293480,"date":"2024-01-29T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1293480"},"modified":"2024-01-31T06:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:41:15","slug":"explosion-leads-to-marijuana-facility-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1293480","title":{"rendered":"Explosion leads to marijuana facility discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/upshurco-175x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1042307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/upshurco-175x135.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/upshurco-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/upshurco.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>UPSHUR COUNTY, Texas &#8211; An Upshur County explosion led to the discovery of a large indoor marijuana cultivation facility. According to the Upshur County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office and our news partners at KETK, a 911 call was made on Saturday at around 5:30 PM after a car was reported leaving the scene of an explosion at a high rate of speed. The respondents included the West Mountain Volunteer Fire Department, Gilmer Fire Department along with county sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deputies and Constable Tim Barnett. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a search warrant was made, &#8220;more than 70 suspected marijuana plants, ranging from recently-harvested remnants to plants over six feet tall,&#8221; were found on the property. Although the cause of the fire is under investigation, propane canisters were found inside the facility plus evidence of a sudden ignition. The investigation is still ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPSHUR COUNTY, Texas &#8211; An Upshur County explosion led to the discovery of a large indoor marijuana cultivation facility. According to the Upshur County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office and our news partners at KETK, a 911 call was made on Saturday at around 5:30 PM after a car was reported leaving the scene of an explosion at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1293480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explosion leads to marijuana facility discovery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1293496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/upshurco-175x135.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Explosion leads to marijuana facility discovery","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 19:35:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/upshurco-175x135.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Explosion leads to marijuana facility discovery","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293498,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293480\/revisions\/1293498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}