Subject: MJ bust on Eldredge Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:12:33 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong Preston , You know anything about the Marihuana bust at 39 Eldridge next to a school ? 150 pounds worth "nearly $1 million" according to NY1 ? http://www.ny1.com/ny/Boroughs/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=3D3&s= ubtopicintid=3D8&contentintid=3D33314 >=A0Police Find $1 Million In Marijuana Inside Chinatown Apartment > >=A0SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2003 > > >=A0Police doing routine building checks in Chinatown said they= stumbled on hundreds of marijuana plants worth nearly $1= million. > >=A0Two officers say they arrested 35-year-old Fernando Pena after= smelling marijuana coming from his third-floor apartment at 39= Eldridge Street. > >=A0Officers said they staked out his home and saw some plants= inside as Pena was leaving. Police then found more of the plants= in a secret nursery >=A0hidden behind a bookcase that was actually a door. > >=A0Investigators have also seized special hydroponic equipment= used to grow the marijuana. --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Return our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban Liberty : http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/09/20 1:06:43 PM