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Release Number: 09-175 |
For Immediate Release |
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Public Information Office |
June 24, 2009 |
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JD Callaway: jcallawa@hcso.tampa.fl.us |
(813) 247-8060 |
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Who: |
Arrested: Rafael Guerrero, DOB 3/27/74; charges: Cultivation of marijuana, theft of electricity
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Cultivation of marijuana, theft of electricity |
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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6512 Runningwoods Drive |
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Detectives found 29 marijuana plants weighing 32 pounds (street value of $128,000). Two bedrooms had been converted into grow operation rooms, and the resident had been stealing electricity to support the illegal operation. Detectives then discovered that the resident was drawing so much power to his illegal grow operation that a nearby electrical transformer was melting and on the verge of exploding (see accompanying photographs).
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