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Franciso Henao Botero, who turns 54 this Saturday, was being held on $750,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, while Vicenta Encarnacio, 38, was being held on $500,00 bail, following yesterday’s discovery on Pine Street.
101 Pine Street
Both are charged with operating a fortified drug facility, drug distribution, hindering arrest and child endangerment, among other offenses.
CLIFFVIEW PILOT reported just after midnight this morning that police raided the home after city firefighters responding to a stove fire discovered the operation (SEE: Hackensack marijuana growing operation had lighting, irrigation, more, police director says).
The Pine Street residence “was wired with grow lights, had an irrigation system and had several pallets of fertilizer,” City Police Director Michael Mordaga said.
“It was a major operation,” the director said.
The flash fire was quickly extinguished around 5:30 p.m.
An investigation was continuing.
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