CRIME BLOTTER
Marijuana plants grow in a house in North Port. Photo courtesy Sarasota County Sheriff's Office
MAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH GROW HOUSE IN SARASOTA
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has dismantled a grow house operation in Sarasota
and arrested the man responsible for it, the
office announced on Oct. 17.
After detectives with the Special Investigations
Section obtained a search warrant for the
house at 4548 Gallup Ave., they found a grow
operation in two rooms, a news release says.
"They seized 31 marijuana plants that weighed
nearly 38 pounds," it adds.
The grow house operator, Yunesquis Gomez
Torres, 32, of 3527 Gladstone St., Sarasota,
Deputies seized 31 marijuana plants that were
growing in the house at 4548 Gallup Ave. in
North Port. Photo courtesy Sheriff's Office
