The message about the high electricity consumption in the house helped discover two of the plantations of cannabis

After employees of Consolidated Edison Inc. – one of the largest energy companies in the United States of America, informed the police about abnormally high electricity consumption in one of the houses in Marble Hill, law enforcement agencies conducted a search.

Gross electricity consumption is often said that indoor grown plants. Therefore, one of the main assumptions of the police was the fact that the house is illegal to grow hemp.

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When the police arrived on the scene and searched, they are really found in two areas of illegal greenhouses with cannabis plants. Is unclear, they are connected among themselves or not, because during the search no one was arrested.

Authorities also found about a hundred bushes of hemp and the equipment for systems of ventilation and lighting.

One of the neighbors was really shocked when I saw how many plants tolerate the police from his house.

«Living here for so long, I never thought it would happen in the building… in which we live».

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