Seized 'Pot Cave' Goes Up for Auction in Tennessee ... Marijuana Not Included
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An auctioneer in Lafayette expects a lot more "lookers" than "buyers" before the so-called "pot cave" near Hartsville is auctioned next month.
Authorities found a very sophisticated subterranean marijuana-growing operation under an A-frame house in 2005.
Then-owner Fred Strunk is doing 18 years in prison on guilty pleas to growing more than 500 marijuana plants, money laundering and theft.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The 15th Judicial District Drug Task Force seized the property and will sell it Dec. 8.
It would have been more valuable had the home above it not burned a year ago, officials said. The fire was started under suspicious circumstances.
What's left to sell is a 2-mile-long cave with a 20-foot-high ceiling.