St Patty's Day Eve Marijuana Raids at Two Lincoln Locations





One of eight Lincolon Grow operations shut down in last 10 days


Lincoln police touting the shut down 2 more marijuana growing operations. Police Capt. Chris Peterson says the latest raid took place last night (Tuesday) at about 8 p.m., when narcotics officers confiscated fewer than 40 pot plants in a house at 29th and Orchard. Neighbor Caitlin Otley says she was surprised. "I just bought this house a couple months ago, I thought it was a fairly decent neighborhood, in a fairly decent part of town, near a school, this is crazy," she says. That raid following by just a few hours a bust at 2902 Starr where more than 230 pot plants were found. There neighbor Kristina Kraeger says she isn't too surprised. "I knew the neighborhood was a little on the sketchy side, but it can happen in any town and this time it was next door, literally." Police Capt. Peterson says problems with mold, mildew and standing water were so bad, the Clandestine Lab Team had to be called in. No one has been arrested for either pot growing operation.


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