Saturday, May 19, 2007

Marijuana grown under neighbors' noses in Burleson

By ALEX BRANCH - Star-Telegram staff writer - May. 19, 2007
abranch@star-telegram.com Alex Branch, 817-390-7689
BURLESON -- The brown brick home with children's bicycles parked out front blended well into the neighborhood.

But inside the house was a drug operation the likes of which Johnson County authorities say they've never seen.

One part of the house had been transformed into a "grow room," where 3- to 4-foot marijuana plants thrived under well-positioned lights. Large rotisserie-like equipment with irrigation systems and lights at their core nurtured smaller plants. Marijuana plants were also growing in a free-standing greenhouse in the back yard.

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