Howard Arenstein (born March 5, 1950) is an American news correspondent for CBS Radio and the radio bureau manager for CBS News in Washington, D.C. Arenstein earned an undergraduate degree from State University of New York at Buffalo and a master's degree in 1974 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1978, he was hired by United Press International as the wire service's Jerusalem bureau chief and as an editor on UPI's foreign desk in New York and Washington.
[1] Arenstein won two individual Edward R. Murrow awards for outstanding journalism - one in 2002 for feature reporting, and one in 2006 for covering the first home game of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
Washington police received a complaint that the couple was growing marijuana in their backyard and obtained a search warrant.
During the raid the police found large cannabis plants standing more than 8 feet high.