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A tipster and a look at a JEA bill has led to 4 arrests for growing marijuana in Atlantic Beach.
Jacksonville Sheriff's Officers arrested 3 adults and a juvenile after finding a garden in a closet Sunday afternoon.
Police say they received a tip that marijuana was being grown at the house at 859 Rudder Rd., and checked the JEA bill, which was several hundred dollars higher than the neighborhood average.
One of the people who lived at that house near Mayport Middle School, James Philpot, was also wanted by police.
According to police, officers knocked on the door, and could already smell marijuana from the porch. The homeowner, James Floyd, answered the door and confirmed there was marijuana in the house.
Police arrested 44-year-old James Floyd, his wife Tara Floyd, 39, and his son James Philpot, 23.
When they searched the house, police saw a closet that had been converted into a grow room, complete with many lights, tin foil-lined walls, and jugs of water.
Police also arrested a juvenile who told police that Philpot bought the marijuana and all of the paraphernalia used for growing and smoking it from the internet. The juvenile said Philpot told him he was tired of buying marijuana, and wanted to grow it himself.
Philpot told police that he was trying to grow a new strand of marijuana, and that the family had smoked most of what he had already grown.
James and Tara Floyd both said similar things to police, and said the family smokes marijuana together.
Police confiscated the marijuana and the things used to help grow it in the closet.
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Jacksonville Sheriff's Officers arrested 3 adults and a juvenile after finding a garden in a closet Sunday afternoon.
Police say they received a tip that marijuana was being grown at the house at 859 Rudder Rd., and checked the JEA bill, which was several hundred dollars higher than the neighborhood average.
One of the people who lived at that house near Mayport Middle School, James Philpot, was also wanted by police.
According to police, officers knocked on the door, and could already smell marijuana from the porch. The homeowner, James Floyd, answered the door and confirmed there was marijuana in the house.
Police arrested 44-year-old James Floyd, his wife Tara Floyd, 39, and his son James Philpot, 23.
When they searched the house, police saw a closet that had been converted into a grow room, complete with many lights, tin foil-lined walls, and jugs of water.
Police also arrested a juvenile who told police that Philpot bought the marijuana and all of the paraphernalia used for growing and smoking it from the internet. The juvenile said Philpot told him he was tired of buying marijuana, and wanted to grow it himself.
Philpot told police that he was trying to grow a new strand of marijuana, and that the family had smoked most of what he had already grown.
James and Tara Floyd both said similar things to police, and said the family smokes marijuana together.
Police confiscated the marijuana and the things used to help grow it in the closet.
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