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Pomona Police Department
Tuesday April 24th, 2018 :: 04:35 p.m. PDT

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Pomona Police Officers Locate Large-Scale Indoor Marijuana Grow Containing More Than 2,900 Plants

On Monday, April 23rd at approximately 5:30pm, Pomona Police Department Patrol Officers were dispatched to a report of trespassers in the 1400 block of N. Garey Ave.

Upon entering the supposed vacant building, Officers located and arrested the 4 trespassers and discovered a 23 room Marijuana grow filled with more than 2,900 Marijuana plants in various stages of growth. The grow operation used advanced systems of lighting, air conditioning, fans, exhaust blowers and air-filtering systems to control the climate inside the buildings and the odor of Marijuana.

With the assistance of the Pomona Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit and Homeless Encampment Action Response Team (HEART), the Marijuana plants were removed from the building and booked into evidence.

Suspects:
Quan, Zheng Xue (3/7/56)
Zhang, Wu (10/17/65)
Zhang, Chen (2/9/71) 
Zhang, Chen Qiang (12/5/77)

All Suspected were booked at the Pomona city jail for:
11358 H/S Cultivation of Marijuana
 

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Pomona Police Department
490 W Mission Blvd
Pomona, CA 91766

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Non-emergencies: 909-620-2155

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