VID: Officers Spend Year Busting Ginseng Diggers

Originally
posted Oct. 17, 2014. Text is below:

What’s worthy of a yearlong investigation involving 15 officers?
Tracking down a serial killer? Busting a human trafficking ring?
How about arresting ginseng
diggers?

State officers in West Virginia proudly posed next to 190 pounds
of the seized root, which is coveted in Asia for its purported
healing qualities. Cops also came across $30,000 in cash, which was
funneled into law enforcement coffers.

Eleven men were arrested for shoveling up out-of-season ginseng.
First-time offenders face fines, and repeat offenders could spend
up to six months behind bars.

In other West Virginia news, criminals wanted for child
porn, sexual
assault, andmalicious
wounding are still at large.

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