VIDEO: Two men arrested in $450,000 marijuana grow house bust in East Naples

NAPLES — A marijuana grow house bust in East Naples on Wednesday ended with two men in jail and investigators from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office uncovering more than $450,000 worth of pot and growing equipment.

Around 7 a.m., detectives with the Sheriff’s Office’s Vice and Narcotics Bureau executed a search warrant at a home in the 10600 block of Greenway Road, the agency reported. The detectives discovered an indoor marijuana growing operation in a barn in the back of the home. A search of the barn turned up marijuana plants and equipment used to grow marijuana including high-intensity light bulbs, power transformers, buckets, and fertilizer.

Detectives also found an electrical panel that controlled the lights, timers and electricity that was being diverted for the operation.

They confiscated 135 plants weighing just over 51 pounds, which has a street value of $405,000, the Sheriff’s Office reported. The grow equipment was valued at about $50,000.

The residents, Humberto Martinez, 29, who is unemployed, and Raul Mazorra Morales, 32, an intern at Liberty Bail Bonds in Naples, were there when the warrant was executed and were arrested on charges of trafficking marijuana over 25 pounds and possession of narcotic paraphernalia. They were being booked into the Collier County jail on Wednesday afternoon.

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