A man, 31, and woman, 26, were arrested after Florida Police responded to a domestic violence complaint but instead discovered a dagga green house in their house.
Not expecting such a discovery, Constables Josias Masoga and Kenneth Bok responded to the domestic violence complaint alone, they told the Record on scene.
When they questioned the couple about the complaint, the pregnant woman allegedly told them her boyfriend is growing dagga inside the house, Florida Police spokesperson Lydia Dikolomela on scene said.
They did not call for back up and instead investigated on their own to find that at least two rooms have been designed into fully-fledged dagga laboratories. A third room was being turned into another green room in the massive, dilapidated upmarket house on Kenya Road.
One of the bathrooms’ bath tubs was turned into a storage space for compost and manure, used to feed the healthy dagga plants. Seedlings were also being fed compost in one of the laboratories and even on the kitchen counter and the patio.
It seems the couple lived mainly in a separate part of the house that could be considered an apartment with its bedroom, TV room and small bathroom. Other drug paraphernalia in the house suggests one or both of them were also using drugs, smoking it through glass pipes.
Posters of former rapper Tupac Shakur and books on growing marijuana as well as broken beer bottles decorated their bedroom.
They were renting the property and it is alleged the owner knew about the dagga they were growing, Dikolomela said.
She said the police could not yet confirm the street value of the plants as the forensic investigation unit was yet to arrive at the scene. The male suspect refused to say how much he was being paid to grow the dagga there, which apparently forms an essential part of the calculations.
The couple will be arrested and charged at the Florida police station for dealing in drugs and possession of drugs.
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