September 19, 2003
Eldridge Street Marijuana Farm
Police officers had been called to investigate reports of drug use at an apartment at 39 Eldridge Street. Police followed a strong marijuana smell to an apartment that had sliding bookcases which concealed a marijuana farm. There was an estimated $1 million of marijuana growing in the space with "specially built irrigation and ventilation system" (a ventilation system that didn't work that well, Gothamist thinks). The Post reports that when the police got a search warrant (based on seeing a few pot plants in the apartment) "they quickly found the remote-control devices. They pushed the buttons on the remote controls - and the bookcases opened to reveal the farm, consisting of 400 to 500 pot trees, all 4 to 5 feet tall." Sliding bookcases! This is what has been missing from Gothamist's life. Not that we have anything to hide.
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There are a lot of elements in that story which remind me of Scooby Doo.
God bless our little neighborhood.
Heh, it's totally Scooby Doo. It goes without saying, I'd like this in an upcoming episode of Law & Order. But they find a body inside.
"The cops went down another staircase and they saw a man leaving a second-floor apartment; he, too, smelled of marijuana."
Earth to Brainiac: Don't use where you grow.
Somehow, I don't think that either Shaggy or Scooby Doo himself would turn in a guy for growing pot in secret rooms hidden behind bookshelves. I don't think you can blame this bust on meddlesome kids.
That's don't get high on your own supply, ju got it? It's Cubans like you who are giving a bad name to blogging.
"Casual drug users should be taken out and shot" Darryl Gates Head of Los Angeles Police Department United States Senate Judiciary Committee (1990)
Hope they did not smoke all the dope themselves.