"You can't have crime without opportunity," said University of Nevada, Las Vegas criminologist William Sousa.
The crime: growing marijuana. The opportunity: foreclosed homes. That's right, foreclosed homes that are left vacant have become the ideal places to grow marijuana. This has especially been a problem in Nevada which has experienced the highest rates of foreclosure in the county. Authorities took down 153 indoor grow sites in 2010; This is 135 more sites than in 2005.
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