Just one day after police uncovered more than 1,200 pot plants at a Pike County home, they found hundreds more at the suspect's girlfriend's house. Now both suspected drug dealers are behind bars.
"It was a fully-operational manufacturing plant here for marijuana," said State Trooper Bill Satkowski on the scene Friday.
It was at a home near Lords Valley where police said they made their second stop in a two-day drug bust, uncovering a mass marijuana growing operation in Pike County.
Investigators pulled out 400 to 500 pot plants from a home on Wild Meadows Road in Dingman Township Friday afternoon. Police said the drugs belong to Diana Mari, 40, of Dingman Township.
"We are seizing marijuana plants as well as equipment that you would use to grow those plants," said Trooper Satkowski.
It was the same story Thursday when police arrested Mari's boyfriend, Kenneth Kraeger, 59, of Blooming Grove Township for having a similar marijuana operation. Police pulled nearly 1,200 marijuana plants from his house near Hawley reportedly worth nearly $250,000.
It was after that bust, police said, when they went to Mari's house to interview her about the investigation. Once there, cofficers report they discovered evidence she too was growing marijuana.
According to state police the two-home marijuana operation is one of their biggest pot busts in Pike County.
"It was one of the largest we've seen, especially in this area, for marijuana production," said Trooper Satkowski.
Neighbors of Diana Mari in Dingman Township said they were shocked all of this was happening right next door. "I can't believe it," said Scott Sanborn who lives two doors down, "she kept to herself and she wouldn't talk to us."
Police said this investigation is far from over and more arrests could be coming.
"It's still a very active and on going investigation and at this point anything can happen," Trooper Satkowski said.
Both Kraeger and Mari face numerous drugs charges and are being held in Pike County jail.
"It was a fully-operational manufacturing plant here for marijuana," said State Trooper Bill Satkowski on the scene Friday.
It was at a home near Lords Valley where police said they made their second stop in a two-day drug bust, uncovering a mass marijuana growing operation in Pike County.
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"We are seizing marijuana plants as well as equipment that you would use to grow those plants," said Trooper Satkowski.
It was the same story Thursday when police arrested Mari's boyfriend, Kenneth Kraeger, 59, of Blooming Grove Township for having a similar marijuana operation. Police pulled nearly 1,200 marijuana plants from his house near Hawley reportedly worth nearly $250,000.
It was after that bust, police said, when they went to Mari's house to interview her about the investigation. Once there, cofficers report they discovered evidence she too was growing marijuana.
According to state police the two-home marijuana operation is one of their biggest pot busts in Pike County.
"It was one of the largest we've seen, especially in this area, for marijuana production," said Trooper Satkowski.
Neighbors of Diana Mari in Dingman Township said they were shocked all of this was happening right next door. "I can't believe it," said Scott Sanborn who lives two doors down, "she kept to herself and she wouldn't talk to us."
Police said this investigation is far from over and more arrests could be coming.
"It's still a very active and on going investigation and at this point anything can happen," Trooper Satkowski said.
Both Kraeger and Mari face numerous drugs charges and are being held in Pike County jail.
