{"id":35762,"date":"2015-05-01T10:47:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=35762"},"modified":"2015-05-01T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:47:22","slug":"over-half-a-million-dollars-worth-of-weed-wiped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/05\/over-half-a-million-dollars-worth-of-weed-wiped-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Half A Million Dollars Worth of Weed Wiped Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35763\" title=\"pot bust\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pot-bust-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pot-bust-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pot-bust.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>On April 30, 2015 the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Narcotics\/Vice Unit, with the assistance of the Field Support Unit, participated in a statewide marijuana grow house eradication operation. The members located two marijuana grow houses during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The first location was at 3311 4th Street SW in Lehigh Acres. A search warrant was prepared and executed at the residence. The residence was occupied by Marcos Antonio Perez-Lamba (DOB 08\/17\/64). There were approximately\u00a020 plants within two rooms, which had been converted, to grow marijuana. Detectives removed the plants from two separate rooms. Perez-Lamba was taken into custody and charged with Trafficking in Marijuana and Possession of a structure knowing to traffic drugs. The estimated street value of the marijuana for this location is $115,500.00 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>A second house was discovered by detectives at 3318 49th Street West in Lehigh Acres. A search warrant was prepared and executed at the residence. The residence was occupied by Eduardo Cicero Menendez (DOB 07\/08\/1990) and Isaac Montes DeOca (DOB 07\/28\/1970). Detectives removed 89 plants from three separate rooms converted into grow rooms. Menendez and DeOca were both taken into custody and charged with Trafficking in Marijuana and Possession of a structure knowing to traffic drugs. The estimated street value of the marijuana for this location is $450,500.00 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>In total, a street value of $566,000 worth of marijuana was removed from the streets of\u00a0Lee County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 30, 2015 the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Narcotics\/Vice Unit, with the assistance of the Field Support Unit, participated in a statewide marijuana grow house eradication operation. The members&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35763,"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\/35762"}],"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=35762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}