By: Joe Gullo, Student Journalist at SUNY Plattsburgh
MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Marijuana farmers in the small residential town of Monroe Township have been arrested. Police seized more than 10 million dollars worth of marijuana.
According to the New Jersey State Police News Release, “In total, ten search warrants were executed over five days by numerous agencies in three counties. Along with a vast array of indoor cultivation equipment, 3,370 growing plants, 115 pounds of harvested marijuana and $65,000 cash was seized.”
The raids stretched across five towns including Monroe Township, Millstone, Old Bridge, Manahawkin and Manalapan. The bust was the largest in New Jersey history.
Attorney General Paula Dow said, “While law enforcement in New Jersey has encountered high-tech indoor marijuana growing operations in the past, we have not seen anything to match the volume of production of this criminal enterprise. These defendants might be called tenant farmers in one sense, because of their use of rental properties, but they certainly were not struggling to pay the rent with their harvest.”
At least three other suspects are still on the loose.
