(Los Angeles Times) In the end, despite a sophisticated filtration system, it was the smell that smoked out the marijuana-growing operation located just 25 feet from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Topanga station in Canoga Park.
LAPD officials said officers began noticing the smell of pot Tuesday morning, investigated, got warrants and closed down the indoor farm within eight hours.
Three men were taken into custody earlier Wednesday after officers served a search warrant on the warehouse in the 8400 block of Canoga Avenue.
Growers had built three rooms in the building — one for seedlings, another for medium-sized plants and one where harvesting was apparently conducted, police said. The lights were controlled so they wouldn’t overheat, watering systems were automated and oxygen levels were supplemented by carbon dioxide tanks, according to police.
Oh, for the life of me, I cannot even begin to imagine the cognitive processes and critical thinking that went into this particular choice of real estate for this particular commercial venture. Wait a minute, yes I can…
BRAD: Dude, check it out, I found an awesome place to grow pot!
JEFF: Oh, gnarly!
BRAD: It’s not in the best location, though.
JEFF: I see the globe right there.
BRAD: Well, yeah, it’s in California. No, dude, I mean, like, it’s right next to the cop shop. You know, the po-po! The five-oh!
JEFF: I know that dude.
BRAD: Yeah, so I’m kinda worried that they’ll figure it out and bust us.
JEFF: Those guys are f…
BRAD: You’re right, man. Besides, check it out, they’ll never figure it out. I got these awesome air filters and we’ll seal up the whole inside with caulk!
JEFF: Hey, bud, what’s your problem?
BRAD: No, caulk, you know, like you use to seal up window cracks and stuff!
JEFF: Totally.
BRAD: So whaddaya say, are you in, brah? Look at all this amazing weed, huh? We’re gonna make a lotta money, dude, and we’re doing it all just 25 feet away from the LAPD! Are you in?
JEFF: I am today.
(we hear sirens, police bursting in…)
OFFICER HAND: Am I hallucinating here? Just what in the hell do you think you are doing? What are you people, on dope?
JEFF: You dick!
BRAD: Aw, this really sucks. How did you find us? Hey, you don’t have to hit us! Ow! Ow!
JEFF: That was my skull! I’m so wasted!
(Thanks to the site MovieWavs.com for what shall be a very entertaining podcast segment!)
Topics: California, grow houses, LAPD, Los Angeles
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My ex used to tell me “plant it in the last place they would look, right under their noses” and often said places outside near police stations and even in their gardens. I always thought that was silly, but that would be my only thoughts as to why. Protection from theives, I’m thinking not so much, but a lot of people say they feel safer living very close to a PD. Go figure, I don’t!
Activated carbon is good for a limited time. It has to be replaced fairly often.
The only logical reason for having a grow site next to the police station is for protection; Protection from thieves.
This put the “Stupid” into stupid stoners!!!!!!!!
Man, talk about easy work, low-hanging fruit, etc…location, location, location!
Great fodder for “Stupid Stoner Stories” or perhaps “Greedy Grower Gripes”. Something alliterative, attention grabbing, ya know.
This story is truly a look at the problem of prohibition. Cops cant fight and win a War on Drugs when they dont even know there was marijuana growing right next door. What a picture that tells a thousand words to me.
If they had a harvest room up and going then the plants had been growing for some time and had finished at least one batch. Yet for that amount of time the system was working and keeping the cops clueless. So the filter or something failed and then and only then did a cops smell this crop and bust it. So I wonder just how long we are talking here? Was it just one cycle or had it been there for a year or two?
My god do they really think they can stop Americans from growing marijuana anywhere, even right next door? Not that I would want to be on the same street let alone right next to a cop shop but still its a joke and this proves it.