A couple of dogs on the loose and a telltale aroma led to police raiding a father-and-son pot-growing operation northeast of Duluth, where several dozen plants were discovered in a home, along with hundreds of dollars in cash and equipment for growing marijuana, authorities said Monday.
The raid occurred Thursday at a mobile home on Torgeson Road, according to the Duluth Township Police Department.
Authorities seized 77 marijuana plants ranging in height from 16 inches to nearly 5 feet; 6 pounds of marijuana packaged for sale, and lights and climate-control devices used in raising the pot, police added.
Authorities put the value of the plants and the harvested marijuana at roughly $100,000.
Police Chief Shawn Padden said he was called to the property last week because two dogs — a pit bull and a German shepherd — got loose.
Padden said he showed up at the home and "knocked on the door. That's when I could smell some hooch going on."
He returned later with reinforcements to carry out the raid of the house where a 57-year-old man and his 26-year-old son live.
The chief said there were five people on the property at the time, including one who was just leaving after buying some pot.
