Two people were arrested Tuesday after a search of a Cumming home turned up more than 30 marijuana plants in an indoor grow house.
Robert Wesley Williams, 52, of Cumming, was arrested and charged with manufacturing marijuana. Also arrested at the scene was Melanie Dawn Phillips, 58, of Roswell.
Forsyth County police discovered information that led to the alleged grow house during a traffic stop, according to Sheriff Duane Piper.
Police made a traffic stop on a vehicle around 11 p.m. Tuesday on Ga. Hwy. 400 near the intersection of Shiloh Road. Police discovered some marijuana during the traffic stop. Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics investigators then got a warrant to search a home in the 3200 block of Canon Bay, off of Buford Dam Road.
“We found in the basement of the home 32 marijuana plants between five feet and seven feet high. We also discovered an unknown amount of marijuana buds that were drying and multiple pieces of equipment, such as lights and a filtering system, that are used in an indoor grow house,” Piper said.
Williams was released Tuesday from the Forsyth County Detention Center on a $11,110 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 18.
Phillips, was charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. She was released from the Forsyth County Detention Center Tuesday on a $1,155 bond. She is scheduled to appear in Court April 19.
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