Man Pinched For Setting Up Indoor Pot Farm In Foreclosed Dad's House; Said He Decided To Grow His Own Stash After Being Burned By Local Pot Peddlers

In Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, the Sheboygan Press reports:

• A marijuana growing operation discovered when the locks on a house were changed during foreclosure led to charges Friday for a 43-year-old Sheboygan Falls man. Brock O. Bizzell, [...] is charged with marijuana manufacturing, maintaining a drug trafficking place and marijuana possession, felonies punishable by up to eight years in prison.



• Bizzell was arrested Wednesday after police raided a house at W3180 Highway PP and seized 40 marijuana plants and an array of related equipment. Sheboygan Falls Police Chief Steve Riffel called it a "large-scale and elaborate growing operation."

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• [According to a criminal complaint,] Bizzell admitted to growing the marijuana but claimed it was only for personal use. He told police he was sick of getting burned by the people he bought marijuana from and decided two months prior to start growing his own. Bizzell did not live at the home, which had belonged to his father.

For the story, see Foreclosure helps uncover marijuana growing operation.