State Police raided a house in Berks County late Wednesday morning and seized nearly 300 marijuana plants, according to an official with Reading-based Troop L. Lt. Thomas McDaniel says two people were taken into custody at the house in the 100 block of Fenstermaker Road in Greenwich Township, north of Kutztown. 

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Bail has been set at $25,000 each for Douglas Neustader, 44, and Karen Marie Neustader, 43, who are married. State Police are calling it a major marijuana growing operation.

>> LT. MCDANIEL: Basically what you had is over 300 plants actually standing in forms in building and sheds, or outside, both potted and in the earth.

>> REPORTER: About $100,000 in marijuana plants, some almost 5-feet tall, were being professionally cultivated in sheds like this one with the help of powerful grow lights.

>> LT. MCDANIEL: There was many dozens of grow lights, you're talking about potting soil and there spending a lot of money just in power to be able to light all the grow lights.

>> REPORTER: Authorities also say they seized several assault weapons, and a slew of paraphernalia used for packaging and drying marijuana.

>> MCDANIEL: They put many hours of care into it and obviously they had a thriving business from that residence.

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