Secret Garden: Marijuana Farm Disguised As Cherry Factory In New York

A cherry factory baron in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood is using his family-run business to crank out weed instead of Maraschino cherries for the mob. Caught red-handed by the cops, the baron decides to shoot himself rather than face the fury of the mob.

This story has all the ingredients of being the perfect Hollywood potboiler - only that it is not fiction, but the true tale of 57-year-old Arthur Mondella.

Mondella was the owner of the 67-year-old family-run business - Dell's Maraschino Cherries in Brooklyn, New York. The cherry factory, however, had a nasty secret tucked away inside its red-bricked walls. It churned out marijuana.