The owner of a Brooklyn factory that produced maraschino cherries fatally shot himself in the head after authorities discovered a huge marijuana-growing operation on the premises during a raid Tuesday.
Arthur Mondella, 57, became visibly nervous as officials inspected suspicious shelving in a storage room at Dell’s Maraschino Cherries in Red Hook, the New York Post reports. The company was founded by the man’s grandfather in 1948 and is a supplier to TGI Fridays, Chick-fil-A and Caesar’s.
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“If someone finds out that he had the gun on his belt and nobody took it from him, somebody’s got a problem,” the source said.
