Investigators believe the cause of a house fire where first responders discovered two small cannabis growing operations to be electrical.
Neighbors near the house on Northeast Ivory Lane and Mulberry Avenue smelled smoke and called 911 around 4 AM on Sunday.
When firefighters got inside, they found a cannabis growing operation in the basement near where the fire seems to have started, and another on the main level of the house.
Lee’s Summit Police initially launched an investigation, but quickly closed it after learning the man living in the home had a license to cultivate medical cannabis in the home. Neighbors in the area were not surprised to hear about the cannabis grow.
“That wasn’t surprising because the kid had a lot of vehicle traffic in and out of his house. People would pull up and go in and out,” a neighbor who only wanted to be identified as Randy said.
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