Nose leads to grow-house bust
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
A Charlotte County Sheriff's deputy tosses a couple more marijuana plants on a pile outside a Bly Avenue house after a raid Thursday. The raid netted nearly 300 plants.
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Two sheriff's deputies gather evidence in the corner of a room in a Port Charlotte house that had been converted into a hydroponic marijuana growing operation Thursday.
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PEREZ
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
A Charlotte County Sheriff's deputy tosses a couple more marijuana plants on a pile outside a Bly Avenue house after a raid Thursday. The raid netted nearly 300 plants.
PORT CHARLOTTE — On the outside, the stucco home with a manicured lawn and two-car garage on 18000 block of Bly Avenue looked much like all the other houses in this quiet neighborhood wrapped around Ollie Pond Park.
But on the inside Charlotte County Sheriff’s narcotics and street crimes unit members who jointly raided the house found an elaborate marijuana growing operation, along with 289 marijuana plants and two suspects Thursday.
