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 ›

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 ›

There must be a lot of pot farms sprinkled nearby New York! In the same month as police found a Staten Island grow house with 376 plants and a New Jersey man with 58 plants, the NYPD and the DEA have busted a pot farm spread in and around seven houses in Wurtsboro with roughly 8,000 marijuana plants. According to police, the crop is worth about $8 million on the street. Good thing we're the pot arrest capital of the world, eh? more ›

After NJ authorities harvested a $10 million pot bust across five towns, neighbors have been offering up their views on living next to the illegal operation. One man, who lived next to a grow house with over 500 marijuana plants, told the Star-Ledger, "Living here on this block I barely know my neighbors on each side. We don't have block parties or anything like that, so I'd be shocked if anyone else knew about this either." Coming soon: DEA-sponsored block parties? more ›

The Daily News reports that firefighters found a pot-growing operation in a commercial warehouse on Decatur Street yesterday morning. They had just put out a fire in a building next door when "Somehow the smoke-eaters sniffed out the pot in a three-story building next door and called the cops," who then removed 80 to 100 marijuana plants. The building's super says he was clueless because the "growing area because it was chained off and padlocked." This is just the latest in the timeless tradition of the authorities dealing with incidents and then stumbling onto pot farms (examples 1, 2, and 3). 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 ›