CBS Reporter, Wife Busted for Growing Weed

Cops: radio correspondent nabbed with 11 plants
By Emily Rauhala,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 4, 2010 2:43 AM CDT
Updated Oct 4, 2010 4:30 AM CDT
CBS Reporter, Wife Busted for Growing Weed
A demonstrator holds marijuana during a demonstration in favor of legalizing marijuana in Mexico City.   (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A celebrated CBS reporter and his wife have been arrested in DC for possession of pot and intent to distribute, reports Radar. Howard Arenstein, a correspondent for CBS Radio News, and his wife, Orly Azoulay, a correspondent for an Israeli newspaper, were busted for growing 11 marijuana plants (average height: 8 feet) in their Georgetown home, investigators said. Each plant could produce about a pound of pot, Radar notes. Click here for more on Arenstein (via CBS) and here for the latest on California's legalization debate.
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