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Grow Houses 56 And 57 Raided

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By Joe  Seelig | Highlands Today

Published: November 24, 2007

SEBRING — Two more grow houses, numbers 56 and 57, were raided by the Highlands County Drug Task Force this week.

The first was in Venus and was obvious it was inactive for some time, according to Sheriff's Capt. Randy LaBelle, who didn't have the exact address in front of him late Wednesday afternoon.

The second raid was at 2527 Van Pelt Road, in Sebring. It too, had been inactive for quite some time, LaBelle said.

"It had been dismantled," he said. "No one is in custody at this time and it is still an ongoing investigation."

Deputies went in at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, under a search warrant. No weapons were found inside and appeared it had already been utilized, he said, and partially dismantled.

"They can dismantle everything but there is always some evidence left," he said.
LaBelle said the sheriff's office is once again running out of storage space although it has rented 10 POD units at an added expense.

He is looking forward to proposed legislation passing that would allow law enforcement agencies to take a representative sample at grow house crime scenes, not including the marijuana, and destroy the rest, rendering it inoperable and leaving the junk there for the homeowners to clean up.

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