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07-24-2013, 04:10 AM
http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2013/07/massive_elizabeth_indoor_pot_growing_operation_is_ taken_down.html
ELIZABETH (http://nj.com/elizabeth) — From the start, it wasn’t a usual call for the city's fire department.Responding to reports of a massive water leak at a home in a residential neighborhood just off Routes 1 & 9 Monday afternoon, firefighters were kept from entering the two-story house by bars attached over each window and door, police said.
With water pouring out all four sides of the Henry Street house, a firefighter climbed a ladder to a second-floor window with an air conditioner protruding from it. When he slid the contraption’s accordion cover from the window frame, the massive and sophisticated growing operation came into full view, Sgt. John Maloney said.
“He could see a whole load of marijuana plants growing under heat lamps,” he said.
Police were then notified, a search warrant was obtained and water and power were cut off from the apparently unoccupied home, Maloney said.
Narcotics officers responding then found hundreds of marijuana plants thriving under grow lights set up throughout the house, he said.
“They secured lots and lots of plants,” he said. “They were using pick up trucks to take them away.”
The plants were taken to police headquarters from where they were carted away, Maloney said.
No arrests have been made, and narcotics detectives are investigating, he said.
So let me get this straight, firemen employed by the government can enter a home not on fire and then report their findings back to the government. I know, I know... comply mundane.. I get it. Smh
ELIZABETH (http://nj.com/elizabeth) — From the start, it wasn’t a usual call for the city's fire department.Responding to reports of a massive water leak at a home in a residential neighborhood just off Routes 1 & 9 Monday afternoon, firefighters were kept from entering the two-story house by bars attached over each window and door, police said.
With water pouring out all four sides of the Henry Street house, a firefighter climbed a ladder to a second-floor window with an air conditioner protruding from it. When he slid the contraption’s accordion cover from the window frame, the massive and sophisticated growing operation came into full view, Sgt. John Maloney said.
“He could see a whole load of marijuana plants growing under heat lamps,” he said.
Police were then notified, a search warrant was obtained and water and power were cut off from the apparently unoccupied home, Maloney said.
Narcotics officers responding then found hundreds of marijuana plants thriving under grow lights set up throughout the house, he said.
“They secured lots and lots of plants,” he said. “They were using pick up trucks to take them away.”
The plants were taken to police headquarters from where they were carted away, Maloney said.
No arrests have been made, and narcotics detectives are investigating, he said.
So let me get this straight, firemen employed by the government can enter a home not on fire and then report their findings back to the government. I know, I know... comply mundane.. I get it. Smh