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I'm not saying there wasn't a grow op of some sort, but it seems it has changed over time, from the number of locations, plants, and scale. I also don't doubt that they took photos of it and catalog everything that had to do with it. However, w/helicopters going over the homes, there wasn't any photos of anything being brought out, and that's not usually the case with any kind of crime scene. If the press can get a photo of a deadly car accident, to splash on the screen,they'll splash it on there, without thought that that's how some poor families find out their loved one has died. I don't think the press would have shied away from taking photos from their copters. I wonder if this was kept so quiet that no bodies, or evidence, was brought out, until the press was shoo'd away. They've kept a tight lid on this from the get go, and it's deeper than drugs and a stolen cars.