UPDATE: A second man has also been arrested in connected with this bust.Alexander Dominguez, 35, 669 99th Ave. N., Naples Park, is charged with marijuana trafficking more than 25 pounds or 300 plants, and possession of narcotic equipment. Alexander Dominguez and Alexi Dominguez are brothers.
Since January, CCSO deputies have shut down 15 grow houses and confiscated 791 plants with a total street value of $2,373,000. Wednesday's grow house bust was the first in Naples Park this year; the majority of the other busts have been in Golden Gate Estates.
Original release, posted Aug. 21, 2009:
Deputies Make $300K Pot Bust in Naples Park
WHAT: Indoor marijuana grow house arrest
WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009
LOCATION: 669 99th Ave. N., Naples Park
ARRESTED: Alexi Dominguez, 38, 161 Santa Clara Drive, Unit 5, Golden Gate
CHARGES: Marijuana trafficking more than 25 pounds or 300 plants, and possession of narcotic equipment.
SUMMARY: Deputies uncovered 100 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $300,000 at a Naples Park residence, according to sheriff’s reports.
Deputies with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office’s Vice and Narcotics Bureau executed a search warrant at 669 99th Ave. N. around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, reports said.
Deputies searched the residence and discovered that the entire house was being used to grow marijuana. Four rooms had been converted into a grow house with high intensity light bulbs, transformers, fans, indoor cooling units and buckets, reports said.
The search turned up 100 mature marijuana plants. Some of the plants had already been cut and were in the drying process, reports said.
Deputies observed Alexi Dominguez carry items into the house and leave through a side exit, reports said. Dominguez was at the residence for about two hours when deputies arrested him, reports said.
The confiscated marijuana a weighed about 150 pounds and had an estimated street value of $300,000, reports said.
The marijuana grow equipment was valued at around $12,000, reports said.
