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Two Arrested In Connection With Sunset District Pot Grow

Posted: 9:25 pm PDT October 5, 2009

San Francisco police arrested two men and seized approximately 100 marijuana plants from a Sunset District home Monday afternoon, marking the latest dismantling of a large-scale pot-growing operation in the city, a police lieutenant said.

Officers went to the home in the 2200 block of 36th Avenue, near St. Ignatius College Preparatory, at about 3 p.m. and seized 100 marijuana plants, four pounds of dry marijuana, $2,000 cash and growing equipment, Lt. Mike Kaplan said.

The operation comes less than a week after law enforcement officials and city leaders joined to call attention to an apparent increase in pot grows in the city, especially in the Sunset District.

Police said at last week's news conference that sophisticated illegal marijuana grow operations had been uncovered at more than 30 homes in the past six months, most in the department's Taraval District, which includes parts of the Sunset, Taraval and Ingleside neighborhoods.

During those raids, officers seized more than 8,200 plants as well as nearly $85,000 in cash, 20 firearms and other drugs. Forty-four arrests were made in connection with those raids.

Fire officials have warned of the fire danger risk due to the large amounts of electricity required for the operations, and from some growers illegally bypassing electrical meters.

"We're going to continue to do these operations when the information is passed on to us," Kaplan said Monday evening.

Police told KTVU a tip led them to search this home.

“The officer got information from an informant that said that there was a grow occurring at the house on 36th Avenue,” said Kaplan. “And with that information they were able to obtain a search warrant."

Neighbor Chris Ong said the people who live in the home are renters who moved in about a year ago. He told KTVU he would often hear a loud humming noise coming from the basement.

“There's usually two; one younger female and one male and sometimes there's two more guys coming in and out,” said Ong. “I thought it [the humming] was the refrigerator, but the cops told me that was … the lights.”

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