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Confiscated Marijuana Vanishes from Chatham Sheriff's Office

Posted 2006-08-03T22:40:10+00:00 - Updated 2002-02-18T11:33:00+00:00

The Chatham County Sheriff's Office is investigating a theft of drugs from its own office

Deputies confiscated tons of marijuana during a

drug bust in Siler City in February of 2000.

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Now, 3,000 pounds of that evidence is missing.

The

FBI

has been called in to investigate. The sheriff says his office is cooperating.

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