Yesterday, police raided a Bronx building which happened to house a five-story marijuana growing operation. Around 800 plants were seized, the equivalent of over 1500 pounds, including 75 pounds of dried marijuana. And the street value? Oh, around $7.5 million. more ›

Police say that three-alarm fire in a Yonkers apartment building yesterday morning was caused by a marijuana grow house. The Journal News reports, "Twenty-four people, 12 adults and 12 children, from 11 families, including the unidentified suspect, were left homeless following the three-alarm blaze at 81 Van Cortlandt Park Ave." more ›

The DEA this week busted a $10 million-a-year indoor marijuana farm on Staten Island located in a nondescript auto garage thought to be abandoned by neighbors. Inside the garage, which seems to have been an active farm for three years, officials found 100 pounds of marijuana (or 450 mature pot plants) worth about $2.5 million. Two suspects have been arrested for farming the grow garage—Keith Levine, 33, and Michael Arroyo, 37, of Brooklyn and Staten Island, respectively. more ›

Keith Harrington, 47, and his brother Craig, 49, were arrested yesterday morning for running a $1 million a year marijuana operation after cops raided their Staten Island home and discovered this beautiful growhouse. Just look at those verdant greens! So lush! Police seized 376 marijuana plants along with various paraphernalia used to grow the plants, and the brothers and Craig's 18-year-old son were arrested on various drug charges. more ›

Patrick Murray, the firefighter who was caught operating a marijuana grow house in Queens Village last year, was convicted by a jury yesterday. Murray faces a minimum of five years in prison on the drug charges. "I'm in shock," he told his lawyer after the verdict came in. more ›

Opening arguments were heard yesterday in the Brooklyn federal court trial of Patrick Murray, the firefighter who was caught last year operating a marijuana grow house in Queens Village. Murray is charged with tending more than 100 pot plants, worth upwards of $5,000 each. But the firefighter might have damned himself with the location of the operation. more ›

A firefighter and a sanitation worker were indicted in Brooklyn yesterday on charges of operating a marijuana grow house in the basement of a Queens residence. Prosecutors accuse Woodside firefighter Matthew Cody and his sanitation worker brother Michael of using the Queens Village house to grow the hydroponic weed, and sources tell My Fox NY it was just one of several grow houses, which could each potentially bring in $2 million a year. Cody's partner in the scheme, fellow firefighter Patrick Murray, was arraigned last month on charges of manufacturing and possessing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute. The feds nabbed him outside the house after getting a tip that he was loading high-intensity discharge lights, often used for indoor plants, into a rented truck. The trio face a minimum of 5 years and a maximum of 80 years in prison if convicted because the house is less than a thousand feet from an elementary school. And it's unclear exactly what fate awaits all that primo grass, so let's just try not to think about it. more ›

Federal prosecutors have charged an FDNY firefighter with maintaining a marijuana grow house—with 100 plants— in a rented Queens home's basement. Patrick Murray was "arraigned on charges of manufacturing and possessing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute." more ›

A real estate agent who was handling the sale of a foreclosed houes in Jamaica, Queens discovered 100 marijuana plants inside. The subprime meltdown really is hitting all corners of the city. more ›

Another pot farm bites the dust: A small fire in Queens led the Fire Department to over 200 marijuana plants growing inside a home. more ›