Large pot operation brought down

WASILLA – A husband and wife were arrested Monday after a police raid of their Wasilla home produced more than 500 marijuana plants.

Investigators with the Mat-Su Drug Unit, the Major Offender’s Unit and the Alaska Interdiction Task Force served the search warrant on the house of Trace Thoms, 46, and Jennifer Thoms, 35. The Alaska State Trooper press release described what they found as large commercial marijuana grow operation.

The 511 plants had a total weight of 214 pounds. When dried, this would produce an estimated 35.65 pounds of marijuana, troopers say.

Also seized from the house was more than $82,000 in cash, two firearms, a Ford pick-up, a Volvo front-end loader, a utility trailer, five snowmachines and an all-terrain vehicle.

The two suspects were charged with 4^th-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance.