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Vast underground grow house busted [FL]
#10292704 - 05/05/09 07:26 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Vast underground grow house busted May 5, 2009 - myfoxorlando.com
DELEON SPRINGS, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - On Tuesday, Volusia County deputies found one of the most elaborate marijuana growing operations ever seen in the county's history, according to investigators. Authorities were responding to complaints of unusual activity around a home located at 1260 Cherokee Drive in DeLeon Springs. The homeowner returned while law enforcement officers were on scene, but he attempted to flee as he was approached by deputies. Upon being granted permission to search the residence by the homeowner, deptuies discovered a workbench in the garage which had a trapdoor built into its base. Under that door was a hole in the concrete floor that led to an 65-foot underground tunnel. The crawlspace tunnel opened up into an underground bedroom complete with a bed, monitors hooked up to surveillance cameras, a computer and loaded weapons. Another room opened up into a fully equipped grow room with air conditioning, irrigation and a wall panel bristling with wires and electrical outlets. Yet another grow room was found beyond the first one. Orestes Olmo, 38, was arrested and transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach Monday night charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest without violence, possession of a concealed weapon, and possession of a stolen weapon. On Tuesday he was also charged with cultivation of marijuana with intent to distribute, maintain a residence to manufacture marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Also on Tuesday, investigators obtained a search warrant for a storage unit in Orange City rented by Olmo. About eight pounds of processed marijuana was discovered there.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: veggie]
#10292744 - 05/05/09 07:32 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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damn son!!!
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: schutzemdown]
#10292753 - 05/05/09 07:33 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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looks kinda blah, oh well.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: DebuteMachine]
#10292850 - 05/05/09 07:44 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah, you are right. It is not huge or very elaborate and would fit the amateur category.
But, I am partial to stories with secret rooms, tunnels, caves, buried trailers, and stuff like that. I don't know why.
I do know that one of these days I am going to have a place with an underground hidden massive grow room even more elaborate than the dwelling it is under.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: veggie]
#10292939 - 05/05/09 07:56 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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When prohibition ends, places like these will become museums.
I've always wanted a small house and a big garden... Now I want a small house and an underground garden! The plan is to find property with a swimming pool, cover it and plant grass on top, and build a small shack for the entrance...
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: Green_T]
#10293307 - 05/05/09 08:43 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Olmo. I am deeply sorry. Best of luck to you.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: Vullgar]
#10293508 - 05/05/09 09:15 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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My home town. woohoo!
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: schutzemdown]
#10293624 - 05/05/09 09:38 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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schutzemdown said: damn son!!!
we sure do have so innovative people in this state! LOL.
this is so awesome. haha.
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The crawlspace tunnel opened up into an underground bedroom complete with a bed, monitors hooked up to surveillance cameras, a computer and loaded weapons.
i wonder who narked him out and what their complaint was.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: Green_T]
#10293659 - 05/05/09 09:45 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Green_T said: When prohibition ends, places like these will become museums.
I've always wanted a small house and a big garden... Now I want a small house and an underground garden! The plan is to find property with a swimming pool, cover it and plant grass on top, and build a small shack for the entrance...
or go under and hydrooo
but about the actual story... everything seems to just fall into place so nicely for these sherrifs on a "suspicious activity" complaint, doesn't it?
Edited by suburbantoker (05/05/09 09:47 PM)
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: suburbanned]
#10294483 - 05/05/09 11:51 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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i would have told them to come back with a warrant and completely covered that trapdoor in concrete. nothing a sledgehammer couldn't get thru once the fuzz were gone...
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: suburbanned]
#10294776 - 05/06/09 12:59 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah, how could the cops know it was there?
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suburbantoker said:
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Green_T said: When prohibition ends, places like these will become museums.
I've always wanted a small house and a big garden... Now I want a small house and an underground garden! The plan is to find property with a swimming pool, cover it and plant grass on top, and build a small shack for the entrance...
genius, but satellite pictures will show you having a pool then its gone. then Big Brother will tip off the local cops about it and they will find some excuse to come over and search.
Edited by Groomies (05/06/09 12:59 AM)
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#10294784 - 05/06/09 01:02 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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leftysurprise said:
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schutzemdown said: damn son!!!
we sure do have so innovative people in this state! LOL.
this is so awesome. haha.
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The crawlspace tunnel opened up into an underground bedroom complete with a bed, monitors hooked up to surveillance cameras, a computer and loaded weapons.
i wonder who narked him out and what their complaint was.
Probably something like "His grow op is way cooler than mine, fuck that guy"
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: Groomies]
#10294809 - 05/06/09 01:08 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Groomies said: yeah, how could the cops know it was there?
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suburbantoker said:
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Green_T said: When prohibition ends, places like these will become museums.
I've always wanted a small house and a big garden... Now I want a small house and an underground garden! The plan is to find property with a swimming pool, cover it and plant grass on top, and build a small shack for the entrance...
genius, but satellite pictures will show you having a pool then its gone. then Big Brother will tip off the local cops about it and they will find some excuse to come over and search.
They said he ran as soon as he saw the cops were there, and then later it says he "gave them permission" to search the house. So either they loosened his mouth up or there was foul play
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: Jadian]
#10294904 - 05/06/09 01:40 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Jadian said:
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Groomies said: yeah, how could the cops know it was there?
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suburbantoker said:
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Green_T said: When prohibition ends, places like these will become museums.
I've always wanted a small house and a big garden... Now I want a small house and an underground garden! The plan is to find property with a swimming pool, cover it and plant grass on top, and build a small shack for the entrance...
genius, but satellite pictures will show you having a pool then its gone. then Big Brother will tip off the local cops about it and they will find some excuse to come over and search.
They said he ran as soon as he saw the cops were there, and then later it says he "gave them permission" to search the house. So either they loosened his mouth up or there was foul play
They didn't say he got away. They said he attempted to flee.
Edited by Ojom (05/06/09 01:42 AM)
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: veggie]
#10295239 - 05/06/09 03:57 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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veggie said: But, I am partial to stories with secret rooms, tunnels, caves, buried trailers, and stuff like that. I don't know why.
I'm the same way, anything subterranean is instantly cooler than above ground stuff to me.
Cept this guy in my state that got busted for having around 200 plants in an abandoned house that could only be accessed by water... I thought that was pretty slick.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: veggie]
#10295741 - 05/06/09 08:23 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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damn that really does suck
on another note i wanna go swimming at deleonsprings
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: veggie]
#10296052 - 05/06/09 10:01 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Dang, great idea if he didn't try to run. He had an instant market being that close to Daytona Beach and some college's.
I feel bad for ya, Olmo.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: veggie]
#10296455 - 05/06/09 11:30 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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how does someone even build an underground lair with out drawing attention?? any body have any advice?
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: impgl]
#10296598 - 05/06/09 11:57 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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no one even has basements in florida. how did he construct an underground lair without hitting the water table./?
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: panaeolus]
#10296837 - 05/06/09 12:48 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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that was my first thought. our water table is so high it would be much harder to accomplish.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#10297436 - 05/06/09 03:21 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Florida has possibly the harshest pot laws in the country. Poor guy is fuuuuucked.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: doom876]
#10297500 - 05/06/09 03:32 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Damn that's not that far from me. I bet I'm high off some of that guys stuff right now.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: the_drummer]
#10297552 - 05/06/09 03:41 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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You guys missed the part where he gave consent! They didn't even have a search warrant.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: ganjababy]
#10297592 - 05/06/09 03:48 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah he was a moron. his first mistake was running, he wouldnt have gotten far even if he would have evaded them at the scene, so then right off of the bat they know something is up. if he would have played it cool and not given consent this story never would have been in the news.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#10298968 - 05/06/09 07:35 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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that shit's nuttttts
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: capt cap]
#10301571 - 05/07/09 09:45 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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the must have searched the shit out of that place.. Funny they are able to look that hard without a warrant.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: veggie]
#10303406 - 05/07/09 04:28 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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How can you get charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest without violence?
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: Boutang]
#10305153 - 05/07/09 09:48 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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rodfarva said: the must have searched the shit out of that place.. Funny they are able to look that hard without a warrant.
If you give them consent, they consider is consent to search as hard as they want....
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Boutang said: How can you get charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest without violence?
The resisting arrest without violence probably stems from his attempt to flee the scene when he saw the cops around his place. The aggravated assault must have been a separate incident from his attempt to flee.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: Ojom]
#10309413 - 05/08/09 06:06 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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If he had kept his mouth shut he'd still be free. Cops love idiots who act guilty and let them search. That's why they do stop and knocks. Just play it cool and no problem.
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: Stonehenge]
#10310164 - 05/08/09 08:50 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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You mean knock and talks?
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: No Agenda]
#10310470 - 05/08/09 10:11 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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i bet the vietcong would do a great job at building subterranean grow ops...
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Re: Vast underground grow house busted [FL] [Re: panaeolus]
#10314015 - 05/09/09 06:50 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Green_T said: i bet the vietcong would do a great job at building subterranean grow ops...
minus the false tunels with spike traps and explosives
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panaeolus said: no one even has basements in florida. how did he construct an underground lair without hitting the water table./?
imagine how many ordinances he was breaking
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