Police Find Small Pot-Growing Operation
Police say they found a marijuana growing operation in a Jackson Avenue house after they got a tip about an underage drinking party.
Police were called to the Jackson Avenue home of 37-year-old Richard Wixson and 34-year-old Maissie McKenyon on Friday. They parked on Rosedale Avenue and walked to the house. On the way, they saw two underage boys horse-playing, and a number of teens running around.
When Wixson let police inside the house they saw “juveniles scattering from room to room trying to hide,” as well as a bottle of alcohol and wine coolers. In all, there were 12 juveniles and six young adults ranging in age form 15 to 20.
When police asked if they could check the upstairs to make sure no juveniles were hiding there, they were overpowered by the smell of unburned marijuana and soon found a marijuana grow room.
In the grow room police found about 10 heat lamps shining down on two marijuana plants – one about 6 feet tall; the other about 2 feet tall. Police say there were special pots, tubs, totes, fertilizer, lights “and countless other related growning items (in the room). The plants were thriving and about to be harvested with large buds.”
“This was a nearly professional hydroponics growing operation,” police said in court papers.
According to the papers filed in District Judge Dominic Cercone’s office Wixson told police he had been growing the marijuana in the atttic for about six months. He said he is “a habitual pot somker and just was trying to avoid high street prices by growing his own.”
Also during their search of the home police say they found a small bag of powder cocaine in McKenyon’s jacket pocket. She told police she didn’t know it was there, but acknowledged it was hers.
Wixson and McKenyon were arraigned by District Judge Dominic Cercone and are free on $5,000 bail each.
Police were called to the Jackson Avenue home of 37-year-old Richard Wixson and 34-year-old Maissie McKenyon on Friday. They parked on Rosedale Avenue and walked to the house. On the way, they saw two underage boys horse-playing, and a number of teens running around.
When Wixson let police inside the house they saw “juveniles scattering from room to room trying to hide,” as well as a bottle of alcohol and wine coolers. In all, there were 12 juveniles and six young adults ranging in age form 15 to 20.
When police asked if they could check the upstairs to make sure no juveniles were hiding there, they were overpowered by the smell of unburned marijuana and soon found a marijuana grow room.
In the grow room police found about 10 heat lamps shining down on two marijuana plants – one about 6 feet tall; the other about 2 feet tall. Police say there were special pots, tubs, totes, fertilizer, lights “and countless other related growning items (in the room). The plants were thriving and about to be harvested with large buds.”
“This was a nearly professional hydroponics growing operation,” police said in court papers.
According to the papers filed in District Judge Dominic Cercone’s office Wixson told police he had been growing the marijuana in the atttic for about six months. He said he is “a habitual pot somker and just was trying to avoid high street prices by growing his own.”
Also during their search of the home police say they found a small bag of powder cocaine in McKenyon’s jacket pocket. She told police she didn’t know it was there, but acknowledged it was hers.
Wixson and McKenyon were arraigned by District Judge Dominic Cercone and are free on $5,000 bail each.
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