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LA Cops Bust Pot Operation Next Door

Indoor marijuana farm sniffed out after 8 months

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 19, 2009 1:42 AM CST

(Newser) – California's boldest—or dumbest—pot growers have been arrested after LAPD officers sniffed out their growing operation in a warehouse just 25 feet from a police station. The sophisticated enterprise was up and running for some 8 months before officers caught a whiff of the product in their parking lot last week and launched a surveillance operation, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The farmers were found with around 850 marijuana plants growing inside a warehouse.
The farmers were found with around 850 marijuana plants growing inside a warehouse.   (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
The farmers had attempted to plug every hole where air could come out of the warehouse, police say.
The farmers had attempted to plug every hole where air could come out of the warehouse, police say.   (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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diltsduo
Nov 19, 2009 11:19 AM CST
Good for them for lasting 8 months! Lol.
riffran
Nov 19, 2009 9:46 AM CST
talk about hide in plain sight
Jeebus
Nov 19, 2009 9:33 AM CST
It's good to know that all crime has been erradicated in Los Angeles, so the cops have nothing better to do than bust flower growers.

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