Former Baltimore Crime Lab Tech Arrested For Growing More Than $500,000 In Pot

Half a million dollars worth of marijuana growing inside a Laurel home. And investigators say the suspect used to work for the police.


Thirty-year-old Manoj Unni is the alleged mastermind behind a massive marijuana growing operation. Howard County police seized 341 plants in the basement of his Laurel townhouse, part of a sophisticated irrigation system.

“He had high intensity lights, air filters, a water pumping system, an air pumping system, a ventilation system– so this is what we consider to be a sophisticated grow operation that’s been going on for some time,” Sherry Llewellyn, spokesperson for the Howard County Police Department, said.

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