Sunday, February 08, 2009

Florida Man Fearing Foreclosure Arrested For Operating Indoor Pot Farm In His Home

Buried at the end of an unrelated story in Florida Today is this blurb about an apparently financially strapped Palm Bay, Florida homeowner:
  • [L]ast week, a recently laid-off delivery man was arrested on cultivation charges after police discovered 57 small marijuana plants in his home. The man told police he was refitting his house to grow marijuana to stay out of foreclosure.(1)

Source: Police: Pot plants found in teen's bedroom.

(1) A less risky way to deal with his mortgage lender to avoid losing his home may have simply been to go to court and Fight Foreclosure: Make ‘Em Produce The Note! "Foreclosure mill" attorneys representing lenders appear to be fumbling around with the paperwork required to be filed in court when bringing foreclosure actions in many cases. KappaMtgDocsMissing