The McHenry County sheriff’s officers executed the largest drug bust in the county’s history Sunday, seizing about 1,500 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1.5 million.

Sheriff Keith Nygren said a semitrailer truck hauling what was believed to be onions was located at a rural property on the 14000 block of Harmony Road near Huntley.

Five people were arrested and charged with unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of cannabis, both felonies.

Investigators seized 58 bails of marijuana and $8,000 in cash. The marijuana bails were concealed in 50-pound bags of onions. The officers observed the suspects unloading pallets of onions with a forklift into a pole barn on the Harmony Road property. [via]