Bronx police raided a five-story building in Van Nest yesterday and found an expansive marijuana growing operation that they estimated was producing $250,000-worth of product each month.
At about 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, police executed a search warrant and discovered 593 plants, some seven-feet tall, inside 610 Morris Park Ave. They said there was also 75 pounds of marijuana already cut, dried and packed in plastic. Combined with the plants, police said there was a total of 1,550 pounds of marijuana on the premises.
Three Bronx residents — Brian Munoz, 24; Diego Reyes, 25; Victor Reyes, 23 — were arrested in connection with the massive grow house discovery and charged with criminal possession of marijuana and criminal use of drug paraphernalia.
“It’s kind of genius,” local resident Dwayne Dent told the NY Times. “Until they got caught.”
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