Let’s Start Our Pot Growing Business Next To A Police Station. Brilliant!
8411 Canoga Avenue, Canoga Park
[UPDATE: Above, picture is of wrong unit. See this post for corrected photos and video.]
This morning I took a picture of the industrial warehouse in Canoga Park where cops confiscated over 800 marijuana plants yesterday. Literally, behind me in the picture is a wall, behind which is probably 50 police cars, and a gate which has police officers and vehicles coming and going all day long. Just being there made me check my license, registration, tags, and tire levels. You’d have to be the biggest idiot in the world to be operating an illicit business out of that facility.
Now I’m sure someone’s mom will post a comment, “My son was just doing this to help sick people with their cancer pain!” Here are some Daily News pictures from inside the building.
A little map I mocked up for your edification:
8411 Canoga Ave & Topanga Station Overview
Brilliant!
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Sophisticated Pot Farm Found In Building Near Topanga Station (Canoga Park)
I dunno about you, but if I was gonna start a huge marijuana growing operation I’d do it a little further from the police station. As many of you know, Topanga Station is the LAPD community station that services most of the west valley, including Woodland Hills. Note: The MyFoxLA video seems raw/unedited, and takes 10 seconds before they start to pan around the facility. [See This Article For Picture of Building Exterior]
Canoga Park – Los Angeles police today busted a sophisticated marijuana farm inside an industrial building 25 feet from the back door of the Topanga Community Police Station.
About a week ago, officers smelled marijuana coming from the building at 8411 Canoga Ave., just a few feet from the station at 21501 Schoenborn St., said Officer Karen Rayner of the LAPD’s Media Relations Section.
They notified the narcotics unit which started an investigation.
“They noticed that traffic in and out of the building was very minimal. The ventilation had also been upgraded. The utility bills were disproportionately higher. The rooms in the building were filled with hydroponics equipment,” Rayner said.
Rayner said the farmers had also “gone to great lengths to filter the air coming out of every hole that might leak to the outside.” She said that all the places where the smell might have come had been plugged with liquid caulking stuff.
“But it was not enough,” Rayner said. “Their luck ran out.”
Three suspects were still being booked so their names could not be released, Rayner said. The amount of marijuana in the building had not yet been tabulated.
A warrant was served in the building about 3 p.m. Detectives estimated the operation had been going on for about eight months, Rayner said.
The afternoon bust was made a week after an LAPD Gang Impact Team whiffed evidence coming from the building at at 8411 Canoga Ave.
“Our gang officers were in the parking lot. The air was still. The breeze was right. They could smell growing pot,” said Los Angeles police Lt. Stephen M. Carmona, commander of detectives at the Topanga station.
Not 25 feet from an 8-foot wall along the cop shop was an industrial warehouse that Carmona said contained 850 marijuana plants of different sizes.
The owner of the building was not implicated.
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