LEE DEPUTIES MAKE SURPRISING DISCOVERY

Kelly Cook Was Arrested Outside Of Her Home Sunday
Morning.

LEE COUNTY, Fla., July 9 -- Lee County sheriff's deputies were called
to a Fort Myers Shores home late Saturday night, after gunshot were
reported in the area. But once on scene, deputies say they didn't find
bullets. Instead, they found a backyard full of marijuana plants.

DEPUTIES WERE SHOCKED to find the plants behind 31 year-old Kelly
Cook's home. But no one was more surprised than the alleged grower's
neighbor, Louise Russell.

"I'm very surprised," she said. "I never would've expected it out of
that lady."

Deputies found the plants growing freely in Cook's backyard. Russell
says Cook told her she was doing some cultivating, but not growing
pot.

"She was borrowing garden tools from my husband saying she didn't have
any," Russell said. "Turns out she was growing marijuana."

Deputies seized 10-plant ranging in size from 12 to 14-inches in
size.

According to police reports, Cook admitted, "the plants were indeed
hers."

She was growing the plants because, "her friend had back
problems."

Cooks was allegedly growing to plants to ease her friend's
pain.

Regardless of Cook's reasons, Russell is just glad her neighborhood is
now a little safer.

"Hopefully the kids can walk the neighborhood. I have grandkids, I'm
not going to have them around drugs," she said.

Deputies say this is a crude operation. Usually, when someone is
growing for profit, they grow inside in a controlled
environment.

Cook is now facing two-felony counts: one for cultivation, one for
possession over 20-grams.

Cook is expected to be in court Monday. She has a previous misdemeanor
DUI, with resisting arrest, charge from 1989.