
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, August 28, 1994                   TAG: 9408300041
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: STATE  
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DATELINE: NORFOLK                                  LENGTH: Short

STATE POLICE SEIZE INDOOR POT FARM

Acting on a tip, state police confiscated $500,000 in marijuana from what they described as a sophisticated indoor pot farm set up inside an apartment building.

``Someone put a lot of time and expense into the operation,'' said Bob Jasinowski, a state police special agent. ``They went to a lot of trouble to tend those plants, they had to control the environment with lights and air conditioning.''

When state police raided the four-unit apartment house Thursday, they removed 281 potted marijuana plants in various stages of maturity, plant lights, large bags of fertilizer and plastic garbage bags filled with marijuana.

Police said the marijuana could have brought as much as $1.5 million at maturity.

No arrests were made in connection with the raid, and although police say they are looking for suspects they released no names.

- Associated Press

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