Dad brings in cops after discovering teen's pot plant

Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News

Troy -- A teenage girl has learned a lesson about "tough love" after her father called police after discovering a marijuana plant sprouting in her bedroom closet.

Troy police were called to the home on Cheltenham Drive last weekend, where the father of a 16-year-old girl led officers to his daughter's bedroom, according to Lt. Michael Lyczkowski.

"They found a large pot plant in her bedroom closet," Lyczkowski said. "The father said she had recently asked to put a lock on the door to keep her siblings from taking her clothes. Her parents agreed, as long as they received a key to the closet.

"For some reason on the day he called, the father decided to try the lock and discovered that his key didn't fit."

The father then forced the lock and discovered the plant growing in the closet.

"He found the plant, plant food, grow lights and a fan," Lyczkowski said. "His daughter was out for the evening. We confiscated the marijuana and turned it over to the juvenile unit, where it remains under investigation."

The incident is nearly a mirror image of another case in October in Rochester Hills when deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff's Department arrested a 40-year-old woman for growing pot inside her home.

In that case, the person who called police was the woman's 19-year-old daughter.

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