-from thetimesherald.com-

By Bobby Ampezzan

The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department Drug Task Force made four arrests in two separate drug busts from late Monday night to early Tuesday evening.

In the larger of the two seizures, several marijuana plants potentially worth more than $10,000 on the street were seized from a house in the 3800 block of West Water Road in Port Huron Township on Monday night.

The task force made the bust in Port Huron Township at about 10 p.m. A small amount of processed marijuana, drug paraphernalia and packaging material also were seized.

Officers arrested the homeowners, a 45-year-old male and a 41-year-old female, and turned a 15-year-old female over to family members.The couple face a felony charge of marijuana possession with intent to deliver, and two lesser charges of manufacturing marijuana, and maintaining a drug house.

Maintaining a drug house is a charge that is applied in cases where “we have run surveillance, have information that drug sales are going on in the house, and … find drugs,” said Lt. Ronald Muxlow, who heads up the task force.

At about 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, the task force raided a house in the 2500 block of Forest Street in Port Huron, seizing a small amount of marijuana and arresting two men, a 25-year-old Port Huron man who may face charges of possession of marijuana and maintaining a drug house, and a 23-year-old Fort Gratiot man who may face a charge of frequenting a drug house.

These are misdemeanor charges.

All four have been released pending the issuance of warrants.