suburban pot industry takes a violent turn

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports on the growth of Southeast Asian marijuana trafficking in the local suburbs, which has recently taken a violent turn: Pot industry taking violent turn for worse. Last month, 30-year-old Duc Van Nguyen, who ran a basement marijuana growing operation, was found dead—shot, stabbed and beaten—killed by his former accomplice, Tri Minh Vo, at a house packed with pot plants: Man charged in killing at pot farm. Vo is also accused of beating Nguyen's girlfriend so severely that she fell into a coma. Basically, the pot industry in Western Washington is going crazy, and unfortunately, the police expect the violence to get a lot worse before it gets better...