Crime & Safety
Entire Elsinore Home Converted Into Marijuana Cultivation: Cops
Sheriff's officials say the two-story home was completely transformed into an illegal grow site.
LAKE ELSINORE, CA — Riverside County sheriff's deputies this week dismantled yet another illegal marijuana grow. This one was located inside a home in Lake Elsinore, officials said.
Sheriff's Sgt. Glenn Warrington says deputies from the Lake Elsinore sheriff's station received some complaints about a property on Vista Palermo. On Wednesday, they served a search warrant at the house and found more than 1,000 marijuana plants.
"The entire residence was turned into an illegal marijuana cultivation," he said, adding that code enforcement deemed the house uninhabitable.
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Some 1,045 marijuana plants "in various stages of growth" were seized at the home, according to Warrington.
"In addition, the electrical system within the residence had been illegally altered causing a severe fire hazard and theft of utilities," he said.
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Southern California Edison officials cut the power to the residence because of the illegal wiring, according to police.
No one was at the house and no suspects were arrested in connection to the case. Anyone with information is asked to call the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station at (951) 245-3300.
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