the rix mix

Yesterday, the report of a guy walking into unguarded Trenton NJ police headquarters, stealing a detective's radio & laptop, then trying to sell the radio a couple blocks away in Taco Bell drive thru line. Nobody came out looking good in that one, except the customer in the car who called 911. Today this:

Bloomfield cops respond to burglary, discover pot growing operation

Just before midnight Friday, a couple called police saying that someone broke into their Willard Avenue home and stole their safe...

You can guess the rest. But it was the size of the indoor farm that surprised:

Officers traced the odor to the basement, where they found 73 marijuana plants, Wallace said. The couple also had a sophisticated lighting, ventilation and irrigation system specialized for growing marijuana.

Ah, our optician prescribed it for nearsightedness?

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