A car crash early this morning led to two people being arrested and charged with running a marijuana-growing operation near Pope High School.

Sheldon Mitchell, 37, and Rebba Tiller, 23, face multiple felony charges and are in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center.

Cobb County police K-9 Diesel and his handler, Officer M. Blakeney, were searching for a man who ran from the East Cobb crash around 1 a.m. when Diesel detected a strong scent of marijuana from the back of a house in the 2900 block of Hembree Road, police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said in a news release.

The house has multiple air conditioners and form insulation sprayed around the windows as if to seal in the odor, police spokesman Officer Mike Bowman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Working with the Marietta/Cobb/Smyrna Narcotics Unit, Blakeney and other officers detained the man and woman living in the house and got a search warrant.

The search found marijuana growing inside the house, police said. The AJC said Bowman put the number of plants found at 194.

Mitchell and Tiller were jailed before dawn.

Mitchell is charged with possession and manufacturing marijuana with intent to distribute it and manufacturing marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, both felonies. He is being held without bond.

Tiller is charged with five felony counts of violating the Georgia Controlled Substances Act and has a $25,000 bond.