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Hundreds of pot plants found in Seattle restaurant fire

May 14, 2012, 10:10 AM | Updated: 11:20 am

Hundreds of pot plants found in basement of restaurant in 6000 block of MLK following an electrical...

Hundreds of pot plants found in basement of restaurant in 6000 block of MLK following an electrical fire. (Twitter/Seattle Police)

(Twitter/Seattle Police)

Firefighters found hundreds of pot plants in the basement of
a Seattle restaurant Monday morning.

Q13Fox
reports
firefighters were following electrical wires
down to the basement at My Canh restaurant on Martin Luther
King Jr. Way South following a fire and discovered the grow
operation.

Seattle Police have confirmed the plants are marijuana and
they’re investigating.

Seattle Public Utilities is also investigating the
possibility the restaurant was illegally routing a power
source for the grow operation.

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