Alexandra Moss
SFPD officers seized than 1,400 marijuana plants from a clandestine grow house in the South of Market area last Wednesday. Firefighters investigating an alarm in a five-story mixed use building on the 600 block of Third Street notified SFPD they had stumbled across a grow operation on the third floor, and suspected additional plants were located on the two floors above.
After obtaining a search warrant, SFPD entered the building and discovered plants on the third and fifth floors. According to SFPD’s account, wiring was strewn across the floor between the plants and open tubs of water. A similar set-up growing the plants was found on the fourth floor, but it appeared cultivation had not yet begun.