Whats With Real Estate Agents And Grow Houses?
There must be a correlation between grow houses and real estate agents. As we have covered before in California and Canada, real estate agents were closely tied with grow house operations. Now right in my backyard, well not back yard but the county I live in Georgia, there is another instance of a major marijuana grow house network being busted.
Unbelievable.
A Fayetteville real estate agent and her husband masterminded a $12 million operation to grow marijuana hydroponically in the basements of vacant $300,000 homes, police from at least six Georgia counties announced Wednesday.
Fayette County sheriff’s drug agents said Blanca Botello, 34, is a licensed ReMax Realtor who helped close the sale on at least a dozen homes used in the operation. The homes are owned by Cuban nationals who also may be charged, police said at a press conference.
Police said Botello’s husband, Merquiades Martinez, 35, owns a hydroponics store in Fayetteville. Hydroponics refers to a soil-less process of growing plants in water and nutrients.
Fayette District Attorney Scott Ballard said the couple, along with 24 others, mostly Cuban nationals, are charged with manufacturing and trafficking marijuana and theft of services. Ballard said all 26 are in county jails. No other suspect names were released. via the ajc
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Comment by Doug Quance on 14 February 2007:
Georgia does have some interesting agents…
First we have the hookers – and now the hookahs…
Comment by deadcow on 15 February 2007:
too bad they were cought.
Comment by MeatMan on 19 April 2007:
there is so much wrong with this couple growing pot. first of all, a guy who owns a Hydroponics store anywhere in Georgia should not have a hand in any kind of grow. If the cops watch the customers of these places, of course they’re watching the owner. I dont know how the cops come up with $12 mil. though. That would be 3000 pounds at a very expensive, NYC-area $4000/lb. Those houses must have been stuffed, wall to ceiling for that kind of yield. But if they only grew in the basements, they must have been in business a very, very long time.
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