\nCook County Sheriff’s police officers spent three months investigating the couple, who purchased a home in the 10000 block of S. Exchange Ave. in October. They said it was an investment property, but police found no evidence it was being used for anything other than a marijuana growing operation.<\/p>\n
\nWhen officers entered the front door to the single-family home, they were greeted by the smell of marijuana, which filled the home. In the basement, they found eight irrigation tables with 186 marijuana plants, the release said.<\/p>\n
\nA complicated lighting system with high-wattage lamps were set to a timer, ensuring each of the plants was exposed to a sufficient amount of lighting. High-flowing water pumps were also set up to irrigate the plants.<\/p>\n
\nKeller told investigators she is a librarian at Haines Elementary, 247 W. 23rd Pl. in Chicago. Ortiz identified himself as a lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the release said. <\/p>\n
\nBond for Keller was set at $20,000 Monday and bond for Ortiz was set at $30,000. Keller will appear for a preliminary hearing on March 19 and Ortiz on Feb. 24. <\/p>\n
\nMembers of the Cook County Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force, which includes sheriff’s police, as well as officers from Calumet City and South Chicago Heights, participated in the Friday night raid at the home. and the arrest at a condo building in the 3500 block of S. Sangamon St. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n CHICAGO\u00a0(STMW)\u00a0 — An elementary school librarian and a UIC lecturer were charged after a Friday night raid uncovered an elaborate marijuana grow house with an estimated street value of $234,000 in the Far South Side home they owned. Heidi Keller, 47, and Adrian Ortiz, 45, were arrested at their Bridgeport home on Friday night. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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