{"id":16338,"date":"2012-12-04T16:09:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T22:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=16338"},"modified":"2012-12-04T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T22:09:54","slug":"arrest-made-in-early-morning-grow-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/12\/arrest-made-in-early-morning-grow-house-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made In Early <br>Morning Grow House Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16339\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/arrest-made-in-early-morning-grow-house-fire\/smegal-richard\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16339\" title=\"SMEGAL, RICHARD\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SMEGAL-RICHARD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RICHARD SMEGAL,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A fire broke out at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=4305+13th+Street+S.W.&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x88db6d750d745cfd:0xfabe51075fc6bf85,4305+13th+St+SW,+Lehigh+Acres,+FL+33976&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=cnO-UJ6CEoLc8ATbz4GoDQ&amp;ved=0CDEQ8gEwAA\">4305 13th Street S.W.<\/a> in Lehigh Acres around 6:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. Upon arrival, officials found 168 marijuana plants inside the residence, with a street value estimated at $336,000.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Richard Lee Smegal Jr. was arrested and charged with Cultivation of Marijuana, Felony Possession of Paraphernalia and Trafficking Marijuana. The investigation continues and additional charges are pending.<\/p>\n<p>The State Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office is investigating the cause of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out at 4305 13th Street S.W. in Lehigh Acres around 6:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. Upon arrival, officials found 168 marijuana plants inside the residence, with a street&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}