New careers in the Bush economy: Man converts foreclosed home to pot greenhouse

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http://www.freep.com/article/20081030/NEWS01/81030081

Man converts foreclosed home to pot greenhouse
BY BEN SCHMITT • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • OCTOBER 30, 2008

Here’s a new angle on the foreclosure crisis.

Detroit Police today busted a 36-year-old man who bought a foreclosed house on the city’s west side and converted all three floors into a marijuana-growing operation.

Acting on a tip, officers arrested the man around 2 p.m. and seized $1.8 million in pot plants inside a home on the 14100 block of Artesian.

Sgt. Eren Stephens-Bell said the home had on fully-grown plants on all three floors.

“Hopefully, if there are other homes out here like this we will be able to find them and shut them down,” Stephens-Bell said.