Lesson not learned

Mondays aren't known for being good days, and this was particularly true for Michael C. Lee, 37, Monday, Feb. 11.

Lee was already a guest of the county in the Nye County Detention Center (after starting out the day by being arrested) when he got stung by the sheriff's office Scorpion Narcotics Task Force later the same day.

The task force executed a search warrant at the West Horn Road residence where Lee was a tenant and found a marijuana cultivation operation.

The officers found 122 marijuana plants and 19 clones, all of which were taken.

In addition, approximately two pounds of harvested marijuana were found at the residence.

Lee had been arrested and booked into jail earlier that day on charges of obstructing a public officer and felony use of another person's identity in a separate, unrelated case when he was re-arrested for the above discovery.

He was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and the same possession charge for over one ounce of marijuana.

Lee's bail for those charges is $15,000.

According to the sheriff's office press release, this is the second marijuana cultivation Lee has been caught with during the last six months.

Last August the Narcotics and Street Crime units discovered Lee to be cultivating and in possession of 70 marijuana plants.