FORT PIERCE — About $200,000 worth of marijuana was seized Thursday during a grow house bust by the Fort Pierce Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, according to a police news release.

Police with the DEA arrested and charged Michael Philip Carty, 44, and his wife, Tiffany Dawn Carty, 32, both of the 1100 block of Granada Avenue, with cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana with the intent to sell and possession of drug paraphernalia. As of Thursday evening, both were in St. Lucie County Jail in lieu of $10,500 bail. (more…)

Kobie Orande Gary, a son of prominent Stuart attorney Willie Gary, is one of three men indicted Thursday on federal charges of maintaining a grow house where authorities say they found 213 marijuana plants.

The U.S. District Court grand jury in Fort Pierce indicted Kobie Gary, 30, of Jensen Beach; Stephen Shepherd, 33, a tenant at the $125,030 home in the 7200 block of Mulberry Drive in Hobe Sound that was the alleged grow house; and Scott Daniel Gibson of Stuart. (more…)

HOBE SOUND — Kobie O. Gary, son of famed local lawyer Willie Gary, and Hobe Sound resident Steven A. Shepherd did not make any statements to investigators before being released on $10,000 bail each late Tuesday.

Kobie Gary, 30, and Shepherd, 33, were arrested Tuesday after investigators found more than 250 marijuana plants growing at the home where Shepherd lives in the 7200 block of Southeast Mulberry Drive. The relationship between the men wasn’t known.

Investigators stopped Kobie Gary as he walked out of the grow house’s front door and got in a Chevrolet Tahoe, according to the arrest affidavit. (more…)