Family pot profits pays for college

Posted: Oct 23, 2009 8:42 PM
Updated: Oct 23, 2009 9:17 PM

CALIFORNIA: Authorities found several hundred marijuana plants in a Stockton home and several hundred more growing in a nearby office.

It was apparently a family operation involving a father, mother, and two sons.

And now it appears that the profits may have paid for the kids' education.

Behind the blinds, marijuana sprouts under growing lamps in a former real estate office.

Marijuana too, inside a Stockton home.

And all this time, neighbors were unaware that the operation was right under their nose because they didn't smell a thing.


"They're always quiet. They're never out or anything like that," said one neighbor.

Now officers from the mountain and valley marijuana investigation team or "MAVMIT" are pulling out the plants.

And officers escorted two brothers, 26-year-old Richard and David LA out to a waiting patrol car in handcuffs.

Their parents in Saratoga, also under arrest.

Surprisingly the twin brothers are graduates of U.C. Davis majoring in biology and biochemistry.

And this operation allegedly paid for their education.

"They did make a few spontaneous statements by saying that... They've been doing this for several years to pay for their college tuition at U.C. Davis. And some of the mortgage for the parents," said Roy Giorgi of the Marijuana Investigation Team.

The plants were continually harvested.

The going rate was about $3,000 a pound.