{"id":377523,"date":"2026-10-20T02:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377523\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:18:07","slug":"city-marshals-discover-marijuana-grow-op-while-serving-eviction-at-bronx-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377523\/","title":{"rendered":"City Marshals discover marijuana grow op while serving eviction at Bronx apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

City Marshals uncovered a marijuana grow operation featuring 30 adult plants while serving an eviction at a Bronx apartment Monday morning, officials<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

The marshals found the illicit weed farm inside the vacant first-floor apartment located on Marion Ave. near E. 195th St. in Fordham around 10:20 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n

Neighbors told the Daily News they spotted officers hauling white bags out of the apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the smell, it was toxic,\u201d said Evelyn Arredondo, 45, who lives next door to the ganja farm with her three children. \u201cMy throat, nose and eyes burned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arredondo, whose children have asthma, said she saw as many as four men coming and going from the foul-smelling apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey hid their faces so you couldn\u2019t see. They would wait until I left to come out,\u201d Arredondo said. \u201cI wondered what they were doing, but they would slam the door. They never spoke. They came and went, but fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is illegal to have more than 12 cannabis plants per household under New York State law<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The building\u2019s super said rent at the apartment where the grow operation was discovered hadn\u2019t been paid in more than six months.<\/p>\n

The NYC Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>, which is handling the investigation, is conferring with FDNY, Con Edison and Department Buildings to determine if additional violations are warranted, according to a spokesperson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sheriff\u2019s Office remains committed to protecting the safety and well-being of our communities by disrupting illicit operations that threaten public safety and\u00a0 health,\u201d said NYC Sheriff Edwin Raymond.<\/p>\n

There were no arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Marshals uncovered a marijuana grow operation featuring 30 adult plants while serving an eviction at a Bronx…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[138801,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-377523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-marijuana-farm-brox","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}