Summoned to a house Sunday morning because of an argument over drugs, New Port Richey police made a much bigger discovery: a sophisticated growing room for marijuana plants inside a house, reports said.

Officer Chris Trapnell went to 5053 Hillside Drive at 11:40 a.m. Sunday to investigate an argument involving drugs. There, Trapnell found Richard Lubanski, 38, who lived at the Hillside Drive home.

Lubanski, according to his arrest report, admitted to having a “small amount” of marijuana in the house, Trapnell said. Lubanski then unlocked a bedroom door, revealing a “grow room.”

In the room were a carbon dioxide machine, ozone generator, a motorized tract lighting system and walls lined with reflective materials. On the floor were 45 marijuana plants, each about 3 feet tall.

Lubanski, according to his arrest report, said he was growing the marijuana to sell.

Lubanski was taken to the Land O’Lakes jail, facing 45 counts of cultivating marijuana and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia. He was being held Monday evening on $100,500 bail.

A shopper’s lost wallet was returned Friday evening at the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 7631 Gall Blvd. in Zephyrhills, Florida. But the $500 inside was not, a Pasco County sheriff’s report said.

On Sunday authorities arrested Erica Leigh Bonilla, 20, of 38836 Margs Court, the woman who had turned in the empty wallet. Wal-Mart security cameras show Bonilla removing cash from the wallet before turning it in, reports said.

After she was arrested, Bonilla told deputies that she took $360 from the wallet and had already spent the money, reports said. But the person who owned the wallet said $500 was missing, the report said.

Bonilla was charged with grand theft and remains at the county jail in Land O’Lakes in lieu of $5,000 bail.

An unemployed Queens man allegedly robbed banks to pay for hormonal medication necessary to maintain a “female physique,” police said.

Patrick Smith, 42, of 93-19 Hollis Court was arrested by Fifth Precinct Police Officers David Januszewski and Rita Bopp Carroll as he gazed through the window of a bank on Hempstead Turnpike that he had robbed before, said Robbery Squad Det. Sgt. Gary Schriffen.

Police charged Smith with four counts of third-degree robbery for incidents beginning in February. He got away with about $6,400, Schriffen said.

None of the money was recovered.

Smith wore heavy winter coats during the robberies, police said, but after his arrest it became apparent to officers that he had breasts. “The ensuing investigation revealed that the proceeds were used to maintain the necessary hormonal medication to maintain his female physique,” Schriffen said.

Smith, who is unemployed, told officers he is transsexual, but he has had no surgery to change his gender, police said.

Police said that the first robbery occurred at 2:25 p.m. Feb. 6 at a Citibank at 1060 Hempstead Tpke. Smith entered the bank and handed the teller a hand-written note demanding money, warning that he had a gun and would begin shooting if his demands weren’t met, Schriffen said. He shoved the money in his pockets and fled before officers arrived.

Police said similar scenarios unfolded on Feb. 18 at a Citibank at 925 Hempstead Turnpike, and on Feb. 26 at a Ridgewood Savings Bank at 1010 Hempstead Tpke. on Feb. 26. Detectives realized the suspect had been targeting banks in a small area and circulated pictures taken from the banks’ surveillance cameras throughout the area.

Smith struck the same Citibank at 925 Hempstead Turnpike on March 7, getting away with about $1,800, police said.

Hillary V. Boyd, 36, and her husband, Jonathon Gordon Granger, 32, of 3377 Hibiscus Ave., East Naples, were charged with stealing a lobster from a tank at the Red Lobster restaurant in Naples, Florida.

Police gave this account of what led to their seafood-stealing suspects:

On Monday, around 3:30 p.m., patrons at the restaurant reported seeing a man later identified as Granger walk out the front door of the restaurant at 2355 U.S. 41 N. with a live Maine lobster tucked under his shirt.

Quick-thinking witnesses grabbed the license tag number and description of the car Granger had gotten into with Boyd and alerted management. The car had sped off.

Police ran the tag through dispatchers and found it was registered to Granger and Boyd.

So an officer called their home and left a phone message. He left his cellular phone number and asked the couple to call so they could clear up the matter. Just before 8 p.m., Boyd called the officer back.

He explained to her that he was looking into the stolen lobster case and asked her if she had been at the Red Lobster on Monday afternoon. She said she’d been there with her husband, but she didn’t know anything about the lobster.

The officer explained that the restaurant wanted to be paid for the lobster and to have the couple banned from the restaurant, and no charges would be pressed.

Boyd again said she didn’t know what the officer was talking about. The officer asked to talk to her husband. Granger admitted that he stole the lobster. He agreed to pay for the lobster and sign a trespass warning to keep out of jail.

“(Granger) said he was buzzed from drinking and that it was a stupid mistake,'’ police reports say.

A short time later, Boyd arrived, lobster in hand.

When the officer explained that the couple would be banned from Red Lobster, Boyd got loud and started yelling obscenities, upsetting diners in the restaurant. Police had met her in the banquet room.

“This is a (expletive) joke. We’re in trouble for a (expletive) $8.99 lobster?'’ she said.

The officer asked her to calm down, but she continued to be loud. She told the officer that she was taking the blame for the lobster theft and not her husband. The officer explained that her husband had to sign the trespassing warning, too.

“Boyd stated … that I could take her to jail for the lobster,'’ the report says. Police also say it appeared Boyd was under the influence of alcohol.

Boyd then grabbed the restaurant manager by the waist and pushed the officer in the shoulder after he’d warned her not to touch anyone. Boyd then started fighting with the officer and he had to take her to the ground to control her.

Another officer met Granger in the parking lot, where he’d been waiting for his wife, and he fought with police. While one officer fought with him, another had to run after Boyd, who had tried to run from police.

Both were then taken to the Collier County jail. Once at the jail, Boyd pushed a jail officer, leading to another charge.

Boyd, who told police she is a bartender at the Collier Athletic Club, is facing charges of obtaining food with intent to defraud, resisting an officer with violence, disorderly conduct, battery and battery on a law enforcement officer.

Granger, who says he is an unemployed laborer, is charged with retail theft and resisting an officer with violence.

Florence, Ohio Police who pulled over a compact car for speeding Monday night say they found it stuffed with 300 pounds of marijuana.

The 24 bundles of marijuana, each the size of a large bed pillow, wouldn’t all fit in the trunk, police said. Some were packed in the rear seat with a blanket over the top.

“The officer detected an odor of marijuana while speaking with the driver,” said Florence Police spokesman Lt. Tim Chesser. “When another officer approached from the opposite side of the car, he observed what appeared to be the bundled marijuana partially covered.”

Police brought their drug-sniffing dog, King, who helped confirm the presence of drugs, they said.

“As far as we know, this is the largest amount of marijuana that has been taken during a traffic stop in Florence,” Chesser said.

The street value of the marijuana is about $300,000, police said.

The driver, Nolberto Salinas, appeared in Boone County District Court on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to trafficking in marijuana over five pounds. The charge is a Class-B felony punishable by 10 to 20 years in prison. The 54-year-old Saginaw, Mich., man was being held at the Boone County jail Tuesday afternoon in lieu of a $2,500 bond.

“He refused to give us any information,” Chesser said. “We have no idea where he was headed.”

Salinas was driving a 2002 red Ford Escort ZX2 south on Interstate 71/75 when he was pulled over at the U.S. 42 overpass going 78 mph in a 55 mph zone, police said. The traffic stop was made by Senior Police Officer Tom Grau and Officer John Mulligan.

Law enforcement officials say the drug bust in Florence was similar, but likely unrelated, to a large pot seizure last week in Ohio.

In that case, an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper stopped a Dodge Caravan on Interstate 74 in Hamilton County for following a car too closely and found 894 pounds of marijuana in plain view in the back. Police say the marijuana had a street value of $1.9 million dollars.

Jimmy S. Hill, 25, of Corryville is charged with felony possession of drugs. If convicted, he could get up to eight years in prison. He was released from the Hamilton County Justice Center after posting 10 percent of a $500,000 bond.

A stickup in a small town post office was thwarted by two grandparents wrestling the robber to the ground, Israeli police have said.

Peter Weinstein, 78, was waiting for service in a post office in the southern Israeli town of Sderot when the thief, wearing a black ski mask, pointed a weapon at the clerk and grabbed some cash.

Weinstein jumped the robber, who eluded his grasp, but was slowed down by trying to open the post office door in the wrong direction.

“Because of that, I managed to grab him,” Weinstein told the Yediot Ahronot daily.

As Weinstein wrestled with the robber, customer Yulia Husid, 54, joined in, grabbing the gun and a bag of cash containing 1,000 shekels ($325).

During the struggle, the robber’s ski mask came off, and the two customers were able to identify him as a 34-year-old man with a criminal record. The thief remained at large today.

Weinstein and Husid received certificates of courage from police. A photograph in Yediot showed the two smiling, Weinstein displaying clenched fists and Husid giving the “thumbs up” sign.

The gun turned out to be a toy, police said.

My father is a police officer in Dallas and he gave me permission to tell you his incredible story.

My dad posed as a fake john to arrest prostitutes. Well, he was approached by a female that propositioned him for sex for money. When he and his cop buddies went to make the arrest she claimed that she was an undercover officer tring to catch Johns. Obviously they knew better being that she claimed to work for the same divison as them. So they arrested her, but this is not the last my father would see of her.

About two months later a construction worker buddy of my dad’s set him up on a blind date with a woman that lived in his apartment building (my parents have been divorced for nine years). Can you guess what happend next? When my father showed up at the restaurant,his date turned out to be the hooker he arrested a few months before that claimed to be an undercover officer. Needless to say that the date didn’t work out. My dad, of course, asked his friend why he would set him up with a prostitute. His friend said he had no idea that is what she was.