MOULTRIE, Ga. — Colquitt County drug agents broke up an apparent marijuana-growing operation on Friday, seizing plants stripped of the product and seeds and making two arrests.

Officers searched the 1722 Fourth St. S.E. residence of Tony Dewayne Morris on Friday.

“Investigators followed up on a drug complaint” at that address, said Sgt. Justin Searcy of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Drug Enforcement Team. “We smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the residence.”

Officers obtained a search warrant for the property based on that evidence, he said.

Inside they found “marijuana, drug supplies, (marijuana) seeds, plant carriers, items utilized in the growing,” Searcy said.

The officers also found the stalks of suspected marijuana plants that had been stripped of the vegetation, he said. Tony Morris, 49, and Donnie Lynn Morris, 51, Highway 33, were each charged with manufacturing marijuana, possession of marijuana and possession of drug-related objects.

Both men were released from jail on a $7,000 bond.