By Ben Fractenberg and Tom Liddy
DNAinfo Staff
BRONX — Narcotics cops busted up a massive pot den Tuesday in a Morris Park building that was filled with 800 marijuana plants worth an estimated $8 million, sources said.
Every floor of the five-story commercial building at 610 Morris Park Ave., near Fillmore Street, was devoted to some aspect of the marijuana growing process, cops said.
Police executed a search warrant about 1 p.m. after receiving numerous community complaints about the smell.
Sources said that the plants, some of which were 7 feet tall, were dried on a clothesline on the fifth floor of the building.
The sources estimated that the weed was worth $5,000 to $8,000 per pound with each of the plants weighing around 2 pounds.
Cops said that three men in their 20s were in custody.
