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A neighbor's suspicions about a house on Aboto Way in Rancho Cordova has led to yet another indoor pot garden placed in the middle of suburbia.
Friday afternoon Rancho Cordova police and Sacramento County sheriff's detectives raided the house and found all three bedrooms converted to an indoor marijuana garden. They say they found about 100 plants in various stages of growth. Some of it was being harvested.
Two men who arrived at the house early in the afternoon were taken into custody. At least one is linked to the house by mail that was going there in his name. Detective Sgt. Pete James of the Rancho Cordova Police Department said there may be more people involved. James said they were first contacted a couple of weeks ago by a neighbor who said he had been watching news coverage about pot houses being raided in Elk Grove and Natomas and similar suspicions about the house at 3252 Arbota Way.
As they continued their investigation, police developed enough information about th house to obtain a search warrant, but James did not disclose what that evidence was. Unlike many of the other houses, from the front of the house, there was nothing suspicious. The blinds were open, and the growing operation was restricted to the three bedrooms in the house with grow lights on timers, artificial soil and vents cut through the ceilings of the rooms.
It appears the people who went to the house were not living there but would go by every few days, the neighbor told police. One neighbor, Josh Houck, said he never noticed anything suspicious except that the yard was becoming overgrown until suddenly they started taking care of it.
James said police are still investigating whether or not the house is connected to the other raided in the region. While there are some similarities, James said there are differences.
Meanwhile, a coalition of local, state and federal authorities confiscated several hundred plants found growing in rural Western San Joaquin County.
Undercover agents with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department teamed with federal Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) officals to spot and remove 250 to 300 plants discovered in a cornfield near Eight Mile Road north of Stockton along the Delta.
Authorities said the plants were well-hidden, spaced in small clusters in the among the corn stalks.
"I think we're seeing more and more of it and counties are overwhelmed by especially gardens like that," said Ovonaul Berkeley of CAMP. "You can take care of a big garden. You get a lot of product at one shot."
Under the direction of the state department of Justice's Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, CAMP is composed of local, state and federal agencies tasked with eradicating illegal indoor and outdoor marijuana cultivation and trafficking throughout California.
NewsHawk: _qWERTY - 420 Magazine
Source: News10/KXTV
Pubdate: September 15, 2006
Copyright: 2006 News10/KXTV
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Friday afternoon Rancho Cordova police and Sacramento County sheriff's detectives raided the house and found all three bedrooms converted to an indoor marijuana garden. They say they found about 100 plants in various stages of growth. Some of it was being harvested.
Two men who arrived at the house early in the afternoon were taken into custody. At least one is linked to the house by mail that was going there in his name. Detective Sgt. Pete James of the Rancho Cordova Police Department said there may be more people involved. James said they were first contacted a couple of weeks ago by a neighbor who said he had been watching news coverage about pot houses being raided in Elk Grove and Natomas and similar suspicions about the house at 3252 Arbota Way.
As they continued their investigation, police developed enough information about th house to obtain a search warrant, but James did not disclose what that evidence was. Unlike many of the other houses, from the front of the house, there was nothing suspicious. The blinds were open, and the growing operation was restricted to the three bedrooms in the house with grow lights on timers, artificial soil and vents cut through the ceilings of the rooms.
It appears the people who went to the house were not living there but would go by every few days, the neighbor told police. One neighbor, Josh Houck, said he never noticed anything suspicious except that the yard was becoming overgrown until suddenly they started taking care of it.
James said police are still investigating whether or not the house is connected to the other raided in the region. While there are some similarities, James said there are differences.
Meanwhile, a coalition of local, state and federal authorities confiscated several hundred plants found growing in rural Western San Joaquin County.
Undercover agents with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department teamed with federal Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) officals to spot and remove 250 to 300 plants discovered in a cornfield near Eight Mile Road north of Stockton along the Delta.
Authorities said the plants were well-hidden, spaced in small clusters in the among the corn stalks.
"I think we're seeing more and more of it and counties are overwhelmed by especially gardens like that," said Ovonaul Berkeley of CAMP. "You can take care of a big garden. You get a lot of product at one shot."
Under the direction of the state department of Justice's Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, CAMP is composed of local, state and federal agencies tasked with eradicating illegal indoor and outdoor marijuana cultivation and trafficking throughout California.
NewsHawk: _qWERTY - 420 Magazine
Source: News10/KXTV
Pubdate: September 15, 2006
Copyright: 2006 News10/KXTV
Contact: comments@news10.net
Website: https://www.news10.net/default.htm
