Police Arrest 2 on Drug Charges

A doctor and his roommate were arrested Tuesday night for allegedly conducting an elaborate marijuana-growing operation inside their Glendale home.

Police found over an ounce of the drug, an array of sophisticated equipment used to grow marijuana plants indoors, plus pipes and smoking paraphernalia when they served a search warrant at the home of Dr. Eugene L. Herzog in the 3400 block of Angeles Road.

Herzog, 49, is a physician with a practice in Los Angeles. He was booked for felony cultivation of marijuana and released later on $10,000 bail. Michael David Green, 31, who lived at the same address, faces identical charges, police said.

Police also found 12 marijuana plants at a North Hollywood address, where they believe Herzog and Green stashed them in anticipation of a possible police raid, said Detective Scott Bickle of the vice and narcotics bureau.

“It was very obvious as we walked into the house that there was a marijuana growing operation in the bedroom,” Bickle wrote in a police report. He said there was evidence of marijuana throughout the house, even in the kitchen: “There was no room on the counter to prepare food without getting marijuana on your food.”

Bickle said police acted on a tip from an unidentified informant.