{"id":9290,"date":"2020-10-23T19:39:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=4321095"},"modified":"2020-10-23T19:39:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:39:22","slug":"illegal-marijuana-grow-uncovered-in-pueblo-west-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/illegal-marijuana-grow-uncovered-in-pueblo-west-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal marijuana grow uncovered in Pueblo West home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/illegal-marijuana-grow-uncovered-in-pueblo-west-home\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/illegal-marijuana-grow-uncovered-in-pueblo-west-home.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/10\/23\/illegal-marijuana-grow-pueblo-west-home\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-marijuana+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Marijuana%29&amp;utm_content=Google+UK#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"4321095\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An illegal marijuana grow, with 76 plants worth about $76,000, was seized Thursday in Pueblo West, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to a report that tenants had altered the electrical system of a home, on the 1100 block of Camino Santiago, to bypass the meter, the sheriff\u2019s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The residents could not be contacted Thursday, but a strong order of marijuana was noticeable near the residence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great awareness by our deputies and detectives who detected an illegal marijuana grow at a home in Pueblo West after responding to report of an altered electrical system. 76 plants worth $76,000 found in the home also the site of a 2016 bust. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LVye19CWiS\">https:\/\/t.co\/LVye19CWiS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5jQJRfLSnV\">pic.twitter.com\/5jQJRfLSnV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PuebloCounty Sheriff (@PuebloCountySO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PuebloCountySO\/status\/1319709770031468546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Detectives contacted the homeowner, who lives out of town, by telephone and a search warrant was executed on the property. Investigators found three separate grow rooms in the basement. Growing equipment, including lights and an irrigation system, were also seized.<\/p>\n<p>The home was also the site of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/07\/12\/wide-scale-illegal-pot-operation-pueblo-west-florida\/\">illegal grow found in 2016<\/a>, the release said. State law allows only 12 marijuana plants to be grown in a household.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe home was condemned due to the extensive alterations made to the electrical system,\u201d the release said. It\u2019s unknown if anyone was living in the home and no arrests have been made as of Friday morning.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>Detectives are still investigating whether the most recent grow is connected to the 2016 operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was nothing more than a black market grow house,\u201d said Pueblo County Sheriff Kirk M.<br \/>Taylor, in the release. \u201cPeople are moving into these homes that were already set up for marijuana grows and are growing product that is going strictly to the black market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Illegal marijuana grows continue to be an ongoing problem in Pueblo County, Taylor said, referencing an unrelated Oct. 9 case in the Avondale area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>An illegal marijuana grow, with 76 plants worth about $76,000, was seized Thursday in Pueblo West, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6812,6813,77,6814,6933,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6817,6818,2655,6819,6934,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}