By Sean CW Korsgaard
CP Reporter
An investigation by the Caroline County Sheriff’s department last month has led to a massive drug bust, and a continuing manhunt for the two suspects who fled the scene.
While conducting a grand larceny investigation along the Fredericksburg Turnpike in Woodford on September 21, deputies visited a nearby home to ask the residents if they had witnessed any suspicious activity in the area.
When deputies arrived however, they smelled a strong marijuana odor coming from the home, and the residents of the home ran from the deputies into a wooded area to the rear of the home.
Narcotics investigators, additional sheriff’s deputies and a Spotsylvania County deputy along with his tracking canine responded to the home to aid in the search for the residents.
While deputies and the canine searched the surrounding wooded area for the residents, narcotics investigators obtained a search warrant for the home.
Once granted the warrant, what they found inside the home was shocking – inside the home, and several other sophisticated buildings across the property, deputies found elaborate set ups to grow marijuana, utilizing a hydroponics to grow them. More than 200 marijuana plants were confiscated on site.
Arrest warrants have since been issued for the home’s residents who fled the scene, Sy Reilly Jarvis of St. Augustine, Florida and Rachael Erin Jarvis of Woodford. Both suspects have been charged with manufacturing marijuana, conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and three counts of child endangerment.
Anyone with any information on the Jarvises whereabouts is asked to call Investigator M. Lewis at the Caroline County Sheriff’s Office at (804) 633-5400, the anonymous tip line at (804) 633-1033, or Metro Richmond Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000.
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