EVERETT – Police found a second large-scale marijuana growing operation in south Everett on Tuesday, and it too apparently is connected to a double killing early this week.
The pot plants were found in a home not far from a house on Dexter Avenue where a man and a woman, both in their 20s, were fatally shot Monday, Everett police Sgt. Robert Goetz said.
No arrests have been made in the drug operations or the shootings.
Officers found a man dead in the basement of a home in the 600 block of Dexter Avenue on Monday night. Detectives believe a woman, whom friends had tried to take to the hospital before she died, also was shot in the home, Goetz said.
The Snohomish County medical examiner is expected to release the names of the shooting victims after relatives have been notified.
Both victims appear to have lived in the home, but it was not immediately known what their relationship was to each other.
Members of the Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force on Tuesday removed about 400 marijuana plants from the basement of the Dexter Avenue house.
Information gathered there led investigators to a home about a half-mile away in the 200 block of E. Beech Street, Goetz said. About 300 young marijuana plants and 300 cut mature plants were found there.
Goetz would not discuss what evidence tipped detectives to the second marijuana growing operation.
Detectives continued to work through the Fourth of July holiday to collect evidence in both homes, Goetz said.
Anyone with information about the shootings or the drug operations is asked to call Everett police at 425-257-8450.
Reporter Jackson Holtz: 425-339-3437 or jholtz@heraldnet.com.
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