Big bust in Nashville. Insane grow room. (Pics)

[UmphreyMcgee420]

yeah i remeber reading about that on OG..... crazy stuff man

 

[dmcheatw]

so this is old news then? explains why it's not on tv...

for everything these guys accomplished why would they steal power? that place is so elaborate and secluded why not just run a few generator?

also what is the deal with this fred earl strunk? he must have gotten sloppy b/c he wasn't acting like a professional keeping money and drugs separate.

also i think they mis-managed their grow op construction, the hydraulic escape tunnel must have cost hundreds of thousands to build, but was totally useless. they had a damn door that a demolition team could not get through, they had all this expensive stuff but their downfall was almost certainly related to somthing so simple as being tipped off or stealing eletric.... you don't need 1000lb blast doors and secret escape tunnels, you just gotta keep ya head on straight

 

[Guest]

Anyone got any tech sheets on how to build one of those badass doors? That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen! I doubt you'd see that on diynetwork. For real though, if anyone has any links on how one might go about making something like that I'm very interested in learning.

 

[CGM]

Now thats something i dream about everynight.... awesome room..

 

[9Lives]

it said the agent was after them for 5 years...i wonder how long did they grow in that particular house. If it was for atleast 5 years they must be stupid. No grow op can last forever if it just sits there. No matter how elaborate..

 

[SneakySneaky]

omg that setup is awesome!!1

 

[Guest]

That is a insane setup. Must take alot of work making sure nothing is clogged and eveything is fine. Even just to check would take awhile. Crazy how he hid it like a batcave . Was waiting for a pic of the suspect in a cape or something.

 

[BudGood2006]

Awesome batcave....but...Another one (commercial grower) bites the dust! Bummer!

 

[Guest]

amazing setup

lousy grow

my theories as to how they got busted:
1) electric company lineman saw their splice on the wrong side of the meter
2) they were dealing out of that house, sold someone a light bag, so they ratted them out
3) they were dealing out of that house so the excessive foot traffic tipped off the neighbors
4) they put too much cash in the bank too often so the bank tipped off LEO

 

[ogrefugee]

my theory:
the collective group of souls from all those poor plants that didn't have a rightful home came back and bit them in ass.

amazing setup, poor execution...

unless those plants' supplies were shut off after the bust and the pictures were taken a day or two later.


ps i want one of those doors... all you need is a huge hydrolic arm. that one they used looks like the ones used on dump trucks. seriously. i had to fix one. actually pretty simple.

 

[Butte]

From http://www.wsmv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4255771

Investigators say men used cave to grow marijuana
Dec 19, 2005, 05:00 PM PST
HARTSVILLE, Tenn. -- Investigators described a marijuana-growing operation discovered inside a cave in Trousdale County as something out of a James Bond movie.
"It's pretty amazing what they had under there*-- water for irrigation, special lighting, devices to keep the humidity just right. These guys were professionals. They knew what they were doing," said District Attorney General Tommy Thompson of Hartsville.The cave was beneath a stylish A-frame home where authorities say three men were able to grow as much as 100 pounds of marijuana every eight weeks.
"They could grow in 60 days what it would take four and a half months to grow outside," Thompson said. "It's just unbelievable what they've done. It's like something out of a James Bond movie."
Arrested on Wednesday were Brian Gibson and Greg Compton, while a third man, Fred Strunk, was arrested near Gainesville, Fla.
All three are in jail, with Gibson and Compton being held in the Trousdale County Jail. Bail was set for Gibson and Compton at $5 million, while Strunk's was set at $15 million, Thompson said. Local authorities were in Florida on Saturday to return Strunk to Tennessee.
The investigation began about five years ago when a home was built above the cave, but it never appeared anyone lived there, Thompson said.
"The front of the cave used to be a hole that you'd crawl into, and it opened up into a pretty big room that was 20-feet high. They cut the side of the hill so you could just drive right into the cave," he said.
The cave, reached from the house via secret entrances, is said to be about two miles long, but the marijuana operation was located about 100 yards inside. Thompson said the other end of the cave had been blocked to keep trespassers out.
According to the prosecutor, the men told locals they were going to be mining statuary rock.
To harvest the illegal crop, Thompson said the men would hire a half-dozen Hispanic workers in Arizona and drive them to Tennessee. For part of the journey the windows on the van would be covered so the workers did not know where they were.
"They would drive right into the cave and let them out to begin working," Thompson said.

 

[2buds]

Sounds like they were hot from the start. So many should'ves in this story.

The mexicans for taking care of the harvest is crazy. Who'd of thunk it?

 

[gr0wm4g3]

holy shit, I remember a thread on OG where the guys had a cave and said they were telling the locals they were mining statuary rock. Maybe these are the same guys?

 

[Vermonster]

How siked would you be if your Jose standing at home depot at 6 am on monday looking for work and Cheech pulls up and hires you to sit in a room a manicure marijuana all day! Not a bad job for an immigrant

 

[420ponics]

Holy shit! That setup was fuckin awesome! How the hell did they get caught?!

Ponics.

 

[lordamercy]

Looks like a bomb shelter maybe...

 

[Guest]

Does that mean that house is for sale now?? <joke> It would be cool to buy a house wih a built in gro room like that! What a selling feature

 

[TheSource]

I wish I was mexican. You can pay me to trim your plants, I'll keep my mouth shut.

 

[bluebublelove]

wow....."the men had illegally spliced into county power lines. Investigators estimate that the operation could produce as much as 6 to 8 million dollars worth of marijuana per year"....someone before me said it already.....millions of dollars a year and they can't cover there asses in a smart and legal way.....sounds like greed got in the drive seat and drove these guys down. so sad. I have friend in gainesville I wander if they heard about this......but I wouldn't know anyone like these guys...personally don't want to...greedy greedy...so sad. commercial crops, since they are the ones that get brought up in the news more often than not, should seriously consider changing there image....i.e. not having harmful pesticides around at the time of bust and stealing the nations power or growing in restricted areas of national parks and stealing water from neccasary water sources, hiring illegal immigrants to work in americas drug trade.......all these things make us, pot smokers, med users, caregiving med growers, responsible, personal grow personal use people, look like Criminals. there are other ways to do what they are doing. organics, larger water source to divert, not using wildlife sanctuarys to grow the holy herb. I also think the only reason these issues are a problem is cause these people Don't care they are in too deep with there greed.....in too deep.....too much greed..............like one guy said before....I hope through there 5 years of growing multi million dollar crops they saved some money for a lawyer.






be good in all your relations people

 

[relic2779]

I don't understand how people clean and hide large sums of cash. Not an insane amount, I'm not talking $500,000, but say you have $50,000 that you want clean and clear to buy a corvette. How do you go about it? These guys obviously had a plan. True, 100 pounds every 8 weeks is a worth a minimum of 200k(at 2k a pound), split that up + costs, rent, giving price breaks + partners, for arguments sake, say your looking at 50k for your 8 weeks of work. You want a bright red corvette, or black mercedes. How do you buy it? ...