DEA Raids Miami Grow House

"It really is all about the money. It's phenomenal."

Officers fighting networks of indoor marijuana factories took out what they called a major operation Wednesday in a secluded back room of a house where a nice older lady sold ice cream to kids.

The raid targeted a sophisticated pot-growing operation that could net more than $300,000 a year, authorities said. The woman, Juana Betancourt, sat drinking coffee, appearing calmly resigned to the bust, as local police and federal agents carted away the crop. She wouldn't comment.

Bad luck found Betancourt on a quiet suburban street, the kind that often leaves neighbors dumbfounded when officers show up. Read more