MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — When deputies accompanied a woman to get her clothes and other belongings from an ex-boyfriend’s residence Saturday, they ended up getting much more.

Deputies discovered a marijuana grow-house, which yielded several illegal plants, heat lamps, and the arrest of a 24-year-old Milledgeville man on various drug charges, Baldwin County Sheriff Bill Massee told The Union-Recorder Monday.

The suspect was identified as Christian Wayne Dobbs, of Jesse Scott Road, according to an incident report filed by Deputy Sgt. Carl Kitchens.

Dobbs was charged with four counts of Violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act for manufacturing marijuana, possession of marijuana more than an ounce, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, records show.

After the suspect was arrested, he was taken to the Baldwin County Law Enforcement Center and jailed.

Kitchens and Deputy Ray Mosley responded to a dispatch radio call to Dobbs’ residence at 7:36 a.m. The call was in reference to a woman wishing to pick up items belonging to her from the Jesse Scott Road residence.

While deputies were en route to the call, the dispatcher received another call from the same woman indicating that her ex-boyfriend had informed her that since she owed him $400 the woman would have to pay him before he allowed her to get her belongings. The woman also told authorities that her ex-boyfriend had a gun and reportedly said he would use the gun if it came to such.

Deputies later met the ex-girlfriend at the intersection of Vinson Highway and Jesse Scott Road and followed the Macon woman to her ex-boyfriend’s residence.

Deputy Kitchens informed Dobbs that since Claxton had lived with him for the past three months, she was legally considered a tenant in his home and that he had to allow her access to her belongings.

Kitchens followed the woman as she retrieved belongings from the living room and from behind a sofa near a kitchen bar. During that time, Dobbs began walking toward a bedroom. He was advised by deputies to stay in the living room area.

Deputy Mosley, who filled out a separate incident report, said Kitchens later asked Dobbs about smoking marijuana since the deputies smelled it when they walked into the residence.

When Dobbs didn’t answer the first time, Kitchens asked the same question again, Mosley said. Dobbs told Kitchens he didn’t have to answer that question. At that time, Kitchens handcuffed Dobbs and informed him that he was being detained because there were drug-related objects around, as well as a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana.

When Kitchens asked Dobbs if there was any marijuana in the house, Dobbs reportedly told the deputy that there was some in his bedroom.

After walking into the bedroom and finding a large plastic bag full of a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana, Kitchens walked back into the living room with the suspected drugs. He then walked back to the bedroom a second time and retrieved even more bags of the suspected illegal marijuana.

Kitchens said he also found a silver handgun.

Lt. Lee Williamson later went to the scene to assist Kitchens and Mosley.

Mosley later walked into a large room where he saw multiple marijuana plants growing. In a separate room, the deputy said he saw additional illegal plants growing.

Agent Mike Wolfe with the Ocmulgee Drug Task Force was called to the scene and collected the marijuana plants from the house and loaded them onto a trailer as evidence in the case.

“These two deputies did a fine job,” Massee said.