Quarter million dollar marijuana bust in Columbia, Aiken counties

HempUsually, Curtis Thurmond is using his fork lift to pick up plywood. But, on Friday morning, investigators had other ideas. "They just came to ask me to give them a hand," says Curtis. "I had no idea what I was giving them a hand for at the time." That lift of his was picking up some of the 400 pounds of marijuana from a storage unit at the Flowing Wells Industrial Park in Martinez. "I was shocked to hear in this immediate area, we had that type of activity going on..." [Shocked!]