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One day after uncovering one of the largest indoor marijuana growing operations ever found in Cowlitz County, Longview police discovered an even bigger one in a West Longview home Sunday and arrested a 49-year-old man whom detectives suspect is connected to both growing operations.
The twin busts over the weekend gave investigators hundreds of items of evidence to sift through, said a visibly weary Longview Detective Sgt. Steve Rehaume. I havent even begun the reports, he said Sunday morning.
Police on Saturday seized 325 plants and 40 pounds of harvested marijuana at 1221 Spruce St., off Cascade Way.
Early Sunday, detectives served another search warrant at 4411 Poplar Way in West Longview and found an indoor-growing operation twice the size of the one on Spruce Street, Rehaume said.
A man who bought both houses in 2007 has not been arrested. No one was in either house when police served the search warrants.
Police watching the Spruce Street house saw a man arrive and then leave Sunday morning in a vehicle. Longview and Kelso police, and Cowlitz County sheriffs deputies stopped the vehicle in North Kelso and arrested the driver, Van Dat Nguyen.
Nguyen was booked into the Cowlitz County Jail on suspicion of two counts of manufacturing marijuana and one count of possessing marijuana with intent to deliver. He was held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Officials said Nguyen is a Vietnamese citizen with a Swedish passport. Nguyen did not provide a permanent address at the jail.
Detectives said they began an investigation last month when Spruce Street residents reported suspicious activity in their neighborhood.
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The twin busts over the weekend gave investigators hundreds of items of evidence to sift through, said a visibly weary Longview Detective Sgt. Steve Rehaume. I havent even begun the reports, he said Sunday morning.
Police on Saturday seized 325 plants and 40 pounds of harvested marijuana at 1221 Spruce St., off Cascade Way.
Early Sunday, detectives served another search warrant at 4411 Poplar Way in West Longview and found an indoor-growing operation twice the size of the one on Spruce Street, Rehaume said.
A man who bought both houses in 2007 has not been arrested. No one was in either house when police served the search warrants.
Police watching the Spruce Street house saw a man arrive and then leave Sunday morning in a vehicle. Longview and Kelso police, and Cowlitz County sheriffs deputies stopped the vehicle in North Kelso and arrested the driver, Van Dat Nguyen.
Nguyen was booked into the Cowlitz County Jail on suspicion of two counts of manufacturing marijuana and one count of possessing marijuana with intent to deliver. He was held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Officials said Nguyen is a Vietnamese citizen with a Swedish passport. Nguyen did not provide a permanent address at the jail.
Detectives said they began an investigation last month when Spruce Street residents reported suspicious activity in their neighborhood.
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