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No site too big, small for pot growing

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By RAY REYES | The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 13, 2009

Rented homes. Warehouses. Even an underground bunker. Growers have the know-how to turn any structure into an indoor pot farm. Several notable grow house raids this year:

• The Bunker, Tampa, Jan. 22: A man converted a 2,000-square-foot space at 4107 N. Manhattan Ave. into a covert pot garden. Inside an unpainted shed in the yard, police found a 3-foot-square crawl space leading to a 12-foot drop that opened into the bunker, which was used to store ammunition during World War II. The bunker held 66 pot plants worth about $231,000.

• The Warehouses, Palm Harbor, March 9: A string of warehouses behind a strip plaza at 39070 U.S. 19 N. contained 460 plants and more than $12,000. Five air conditioners mounted on an outside wall kept temperatures at 44 degrees, and the scent of marijuana couldn't be picked up unless someone stood next to the air conditioners' exhaust. One man was arrested after the grow house was discovered.

• The House on the Water, Redington Beach, April 30: Detectives seized 141 pot plants at a home at 16108 Fifth St. E. The Gulf of Mexico dominated the vista from the home's back porch, detectives said. When detectives served a search warrant on owner Gaelan Schuyler Clark, 38, he fainted at the front doorstep. After he was treated by paramedics, detectives charged Clark with cultivation of marijuana.

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