MARTIN COUNTY — Three men were taken into custody after the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said it discovered a marijuana grow house in the 6800 block of Southwest Gaines Avenue Monday.

Carlos Don Bailey, 37, of the 4900 block of Bimini Circle, Palm City; Donald Sidney Dugan, 46, of the 1500 block of Southwest Ifflo Avenue, Port St. Lucie, and John Charles Costello, 37, of Palm Bay were charged with cultivation and trafficking of cannabis. Costello and Dugan were being held in lieu of $210,000 bail, and Bailey was being held in lieu of $105,000 bail.

Deputies said they found 123 marijuana plants in the home. They continue to investigate the operation, the Sheriff’s Office said.

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PORT ST. LUCIE — Police on Monday busted a marijuana grow house in St. Lucie West, arresting two people and discovering nearly three dozen pot plants, according to arrest affidavits released Tuesday.

Craig J. Linden, 36, and 30-year-old Claudia Maria Saracino each face charges including cultivation of marijuana, possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Special Investigations Unit members executed a search warrant at the $207,500 home in the 600 block of Southwest Indian Key Drive.
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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…)

HOBE SOUND — A son of prominent attorney Willie Gary of Stuart and a Hobe Sound man were arrested Tuesday after the Martin County Sheriff’s Office raided a Hobe Sound home used as a marijuana grow house, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Kobie Gary, 30, of Jensen Beach, and Stephen Shepherd, 33, a tenant at the $125,030 home in the 7200 block of Mulberry Drive, were each charged with cultivation of cannabis and possession of marijuana over 20 grams.

Both Gary and Shepherd posted $10,000 bond and were released about 10 p.m. Tuesday, officials said.
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