DEA and Cape Coral police raid seven grow houses; 10 arrested, 622 plants seized
DEA agents and Cape Coral police served search warrants at seven homes used as indoor grow houses, arresting 10 people and seizing 622 marijuana plants. Police valued the crop at more than $800,000, and those arrested were charged federally with conspiracy involving more than 100 cannabis plants.
On 17 May 2005 the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that its Miami
field division and the Cape Coral Police Department had served search warrants
at seven Cape Coral homes used to cultivate marijuana indoors.[1]Ten people
were arrested and 622 plants were confiscated, with the Lee County sheriff’s
office, the Miami police and the United States attorney’s office assisting the
investigation.[1]
Charges
Those arrested were charged federally with conspiracy to possess with intent
to distribute more than 100 cannabis plants.[1]Cape Coral police estimated
the seized marijuana’s street value at more than $800,000.[1]A later
federal appeals opinion describing the same seven-home takedown put the number
seized at 691 plants.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Humboldt County Sheriff's deputies from the Marijuana Eradication Team served warrants on suspected illicit cannabis grows in Southern Humboldt on 12 November 2026. No numbers of sites, plants, seizures or arrests were published, with further details promised.
A multi-agency probe into a Passaic County drug-dealing ring led to searches at 12 locations across Paterson, Passaic, Haledon and Hawthorne and the arrest of nine people, including a 17-year-old minor. Prosecutors said investigators recovered five pounds of marijuana and THC products, cocaine, heroin, seven guns, more than 500 rounds of ammunition and nearly $10,000 in cash.
CHP's warrant service team searched a home in the 400 block of Bear Canyon Road northwest of Garberville on 9 November 2026 as part of a multi-agency narcotics investigation involving the DEA, HSI and FBI. The CHP said it did not lead the probe and would not confirm the target, the material officers shovelled, or any arrests.
North Port police arrested Nicholas Eddy, 29, and Jessica Trach, 28, after their Special Investigations Unit searched a home on Narcissus Terrace and found marijuana packaged for sale along with cocaine, suspected LSD, steroids and pills. Both were accused of drug possession for sale, running a drug house and possessing drug paraphernalia.
