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 Wingman4l7
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 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx 
#15748518 - 02/01/12 05:29 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx
February 1, 2012 - The New York Times
The pale five-story brick building, on a drab residential block, looks like many others in the Bronx. But every floor, the police said, was devoted to a single purpose: growing marijuana.
Investigators discovered 593 marijuana plants on Tuesday in a raid of the building, at 610 Morris Park Avenue, in the Van Nest neighborhood, the police said. Three men were arrested, they said, in connection with the so-called grow house.
The authorities found 75 pounds of marijuana that had been cut, dried and packaged in plastic. The total amount of marijuana recovered from the site was estimated at 1,550 pounds. The police figured that 50 to 60 pounds, with a value of approximately $250,000, were being produced each month.
Some of the plants stood seven feet tall. In one picture released by the police, a lieutenant can be seen wading through two rows of plants that rise well above his head, beneath the glow of a lamp.
Brian Munoz, 24; Diego Reyes, 25; and Victor Reyes, 23, all from the Bronx, were charged with criminal possession of marijuana and using drug paraphernalia.
Members of a Bronx narcotics team began searching the space, in the 49th Precinct, about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the culmination of what the spokesman called a long-term investigation. The plants were still being removed on Tuesday night and were to be taken to a department laboratory.
In the evening, a small crowd gathered near the building, as officers stood atop an emergency truck and worked to dismantle a metal roll-down gate leading into the property.
Dwayne Dent, 49, who said he had lived in the neighborhood for 20 years, said he was not surprised to hear a marijuana operation was operating on the block. “This is New York City,” he said. “I should be surprised?”
The ringleaders could have made millions, he mused, a video camera dangling from his neck. “It’s kind of genius,” he said. “Until they got caught.”
Colin Moynihan contributed reporting.
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Re: 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx [Re: Wingman4l7]
#15748550 - 02/01/12 05:38 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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i'd love to know the details of the bust. that is fuckin' 
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Re: 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx [Re: demius]
#15748603 - 02/01/12 05:54 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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I love how new york is such a stacked city with so many twists n turns.
You just know theres an epic underworld empire.
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Re: 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx [Re: Hologram] 1
#15749039 - 02/01/12 07:21 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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Fucking sweet. It was probably the electric bill that got them, no way to hide a grow like that.
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Re: 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx [Re: sonamdrukpa]
#15749565 - 02/01/12 09:02 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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greed
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Re: 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx [Re: grimR]
#15749604 - 02/01/12 09:09 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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man that sucks-i used to get onions of THE sour d from that area
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Re: 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx [Re: Wingman4l7]
#15749702 - 02/01/12 09:34 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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Quote:
Dwayne Dent, 49, who said he had lived in the neighborhood for 20 years, said he was not surprised to hear a marijuana operation was operating on the block. “This is New York City,” he said. “I should be surprised?”
 Love this. He could have said "This is America, I should be surprised?"
Edited by SbstratAlchemist (02/01/12 09:34 PM)
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Re: 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx [Re: sonamdrukpa]
#15751797 - 02/02/12 12:46 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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Quote:
sonamdrukpa said:
Fucking sweet. It was probably the electric bill that got them, no way to hide a grow like that.
There is one way to hide it.....L.E.D.s
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Re: 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx [Re: Retrovertigo]
#15752000 - 02/02/12 01:51 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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Right now L.E.D's aren't that great for growing, but given enough time they will probably be better, atleast economically speaking, than H.I.D or H.P.S lights.
Greed is what got this person busted. 5 stories of grow rooms? Talk about all your eggs in one basket!
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Re: 5-Story Marijuana Farm Is Raided in Bronx [Re: sonamdrukpa]
#15760080 - 02/04/12 11:44 AM (3 months, 23 days ago) |
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Quote:
sonamdrukpa said:
Fucking sweet. It was probably the electric bill that got them, no way to hide a grow like that.
If so, they should have gone LED...
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