Builder Busted In Treasure Coast Indoor Pot Farm Raids; Mortgage Fraud Charges Possible

In Port St. Lucie, Florida, the Palm Beach Post reports:

• A small Port St. Lucie home builder appears to be at the center of an investigation into a ring of marijuana grow houses that sprawled across St. Lucie County, where authorities on Tuesday raided 18 homes and seized 420 pounds of pot, officials said. Authorities said they arrested 10 people, including the owner of Global Home Builders of the Treasure Coast, and uncovered 10 indoor marijuana farms during pre-dawn raids. They also said they confiscated $57,000 cash, 38 grams of cocaine, four guns, nine cars and a boat. The investigation began in September, and resulted Tuesday in what Port St. Lucie Police Chief John Skinner called the area's biggest single-day bust of indoor marijuana farms.

For more, see Builder arrested in raids at pot farms. See also, 10 more houses raided for pot in PSL (TC Palm).

A WPEC-TV Channel 12 story reported that mortgage fraud charges may also be coming in connection with the homes that were raided. To watch the video coverage, see Grow House Bust (WPEC-TV Channel 12) and Video: Police arrest 10 people in raids of alleged marijuana grow houses (St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office).

For story update, see Mortgage Fraud Charges Tacked On To Three Suspects Facing Charges Of Running 10 Indoor Florida Pot Farms. pot grow ops alpha