At 19 minutes past noon on Thursday, an Alaska State Trooper with the Bureau of Highway Patrol stopped a Dodge truck for a moving violation at mile 65 of the Parks Highway, and found the driver in possession of 11 ounces of Marijuana.

The driver, 43-year-old Adrienne Schenfele of Anchorage, was found to have the marijuana packaged for distribution and also had a quantity of hashish oil.

The Mat-Su Drug Unit was called in to assist, and search warrants were obtained to search Schenfele’s two residences, one of which was in Anchorage and the other in Talkeetna.

With the assistance of the Alaska State Trooper WAANT Unit, search warrants were served in both locations at 4:30 pm, and investigations of the residences found commercial grow operations in each.

In the Anchorage location, according to the trooper dispatch, 36 plants were found with a a dry weight of seven pounds of marijuana. There was discovered there, approximately $20,000 worth of grow equipment along with a hashish processing operation and approximately one-half gallon of hashish oil. Investigators dismantled the operation.

The investigators in Talkeetna found a further 51 plants that had a dry weight of nine pounds. That commercial operation was dismantled as well.

Schenfele was arrested and remanded to the Mat-Su Pretrial Facility in Palmer and held on $2,500 bail plus a Court Approved Third Party Custodian.