only 171 plants today

[leafy]

29th Dec,

Today the Bacon Squad was only able to get a high score of 171 in the MJ game, and they caught a bunch of losers who didn't do a very good job of covering their ass.

 

http://www.ocala.com/article/20071229/NEWS...oglesitemapnews

 

MARION OAKS - Marion County sheriff's deputies dismantled a marijuana grow house Thursday night containing 171 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of approximately $200,000, and arrested two of three men seen fleeing the area.

 

The third man, who reportedly was seen discarding a .38-caliber revolver, managed to escape, according to a Sheriff's Office report.

 

Two of the men - Jose Perez, 59, of Green Acres, and Eliezer Lopez, 25, of West Palm Beach - were arrested on charges of cultivating marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest without violence, according to the Sheriff's Office.

 

Officials with the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Agency, who are familiar with the case, said Perez and Lopez are from Cuba. Since the beginning of the year, they said, local drug agents have seen not only a significant increase in marijuana grow houses, but also those arrested increasingly have moved from South Florida to Central Florida.

 

Agents believe the move is fueled in part by the area's rural atmosphere, which they said acts as cover for illegal activities.

 

From January to September 2007, agents have seized 2,804 plants worth an estimated $2.9 million. According to officials, it's very expensive to finance, set up and operate grow houses. However, once established and properly maintained, such an operation can be lucrative.

 

Marijuana typically sells for $500 to $600 a pound. For hydroponically grown marijuana, which has a higher level of potency, the cost can reach $3,000 to $6,000 a pound.

 

Growers use 1,000-watt light bulbs to serve as light for the plants. With that much heat, more than one air conditioning unit is used to cool the area, and fans are strategically placed to keep air flowing. Before power gets to the home's meter, it is diverted to the grow house. This prevents utility companies from detecting large amounts of power running to one home. Timers are installed in grow houses to regulate light and water.

 

Deputies had gone to 4675 S.W. 112th Lane on Thursday, at about 8:18 p.m., after receiving a report of a suspicious vehicle. The person making the report said the home may have been burglarized. At the home, deputies saw the windows were painted white, were blocked with foil and had bright light shining around the edges, according to the report. They suspected it could be a marijuana-growing operation.

 

When a deputy rang the doorbell, they heard a noise from the back of the house. Officials then saw three men running through the backyard into some woods and a helicopter and police dog were called in to help search for them.

 

Another deputy saw three men leaving the woods on the north side of the house, and Perez and Lopez were apprehended.

 

Inside the house, investigators say they discovered 171 marijuana plants. The home reportedly had special lighting and watering systems, and the walls were covered with foil-coated foam boards. Almost every room had marijuana plants growing in pots, and water lines had been installed on the floor to water them.

 

The kitchen area had many large containers of plant food used to fertilize the marijuana, authorities said

[Frazz]

Mate this sorta shit happens 100s of times every day , its hardly news is it and pretty irrelevant to us aussie's .... imo

 

[Indycar]

So it's safe to say that your not a Cuban living in central Florida then Frazz?

 

Tend to agree with ya though...

 

[SukonmiSkunk]

i dont know... 171 plants in the one house... i would say is a pretty serious sort of setup.. ofc not seeing pics.. i would say theyd be on a rotating system probably harvesting every 4 weeks or so.. .. so.. i would think this is a pretty major operation... worthy of news... i guess.. goto make the public think their squandered billions in tax dollars are doing something

[Pam]

WHERE do they get the idea that hydro is more potent or that there's a ridiculous difference in price??? I wish they would read a book already. My outdoor is so sticky you have trouble trimming for it sticking to ur fingers! Whats more, on the street, "dro" refers to kind bud and has nothing to do with how it was grown.

 

I wish I could find some of that $500-600.00 weed, I wouldn't have to grow!!!

I also wish cops and reporters would stop talking out their asses so much.

[DownUnderDoper]

Hell yeah granny.. sign me up for some $600 elbows too huh, I could smoke all year for under a grand??

 

We get the same crap about the super strength hydro, but when you actually read the reports and studies that are being "quoted" it generally is stated that there is no evidence to support such claims, no one ever seems to get corrected tho.

[CitizenD]

29th Dec,

Today the Bacon Squad was only able to get a high score of 171 in the MJ game, and they caught a bunch of losers who didn't do a very good job of covering their ass.

 

http://www.ocala.com/article/20071229/NEWS...oglesitemapnews

 

Before power gets to the home's meter, it is diverted to the grow house. This prevents utility companies from detecting large amounts of power running to one home.

 

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Western Power over here use a system that keeps a record of every joule of energy pumped into a power grid - that way they know that if they've billed $999,000 of energy in a grid where $1,000,000 was allocated then they know that $1000 of power has disappeared out of that grid, ergo someone on that grid is stealing power.

They bought this off GE. One would assume US utility companies would be using a similar system (considering they invented it).

 

At $600 / lb, put me down for 6.

Edited January 2, 2008 by CitizenD

[iamnotacop]

and the walls were covered with foil-coated foam boards.

 

Anyone have any ideas of what this stuff would be? Like, is it a factory made thing that you can buy, or is it something that they have just made up themselves?

 

 

 

Sounds like it would be great for insulation and reflection.