Thread: Cops raid Bronx pot farm

Cops raid Bronx pot farm

By KIRSTAN CONLEY
Last Updated: 11:43 PM, January 31, 2012
Posted: 6:09 PM, January 31, 2012

Cops raided a Bronx apartment building today and found it had been turned into a pot farm.

Acting on a tip, police broke down the door at 610 Morri Park Avenue at 1 p.m. and discovered a staggering 600 marijuana-growing pots. They filled all of the top four floors of the five-story building.

Officials estimated there was 1,500 pounds of pot growing in the building, and at $5,000 a pound, it had a street value was about $7.5 million.

Cops also found there had modifications to the ventilation of the building and other changes.

"It was like a pot farm in there," one law enforcement source said. "They were using enough electricity, grow lights and such to power an entire city block."

Police backed up a truck into this garage entrance to remove the thousands of pounds of marijuana plants they found after searching a five story building in the Bronx.

The yellowish-green sodium vapor growing lamps cast an unusual glow on the these third floor marijuana plants as the NYPD removed the thousands of pounds of pot.

Three suspects in their 20s were arrested on drug dealing and drug possession charges. Brian Munoz, 24, Diego E. Reyes, 25, and Victor Reyes, 23.

Cops raid Bronx pot farm - NYPOST.com

$5K a pound???? Either things have changed drastically since I was young enough to have an interest in pot, or they way way way overestimated the price of pot!