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said….. http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=bcn&item=MARIJUANA-ARREST-baglm Marijuana, explosive found in Vallejo home Monday Times-Herald staff report /08/17/2008 The District
<br />Attorney's office is investigating the discovery of dozens of marijuana plants and an explosive device found at a Vallejo home Monday evening, officials said Friday. Authorities responded
<br />to the 100 block of Greenfield Avenue at about 5:40 p.m. on Monday and safely detonated an unidentified explosive device found at the home, Vallejo police said. Police said they also
<br />confiscated 59 mature marijuana plants, each about 3 feet tall, from the property. No arrests had been made as of Friday evening and police declined to release any further information
<br />about the incident or suspects. The case has been transferred to the DA's office pending the filing of charges, police said. http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_10230600?source=most_emailed
<br />Big week for marijuana busts By Adam Madison /Triplicate staff writer /August 19, 2008 Authorities confiscated about 100 pounds of processed marijuana, 84 plants and more than 20 firearms
<br />from a Gasquet residence last week, according to the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office. Two men had the bad timing of being in the middle of preparing marijuana inside a French Hill
<br />Road mobile home Thursday when authorities served a warrant and arrested both of them, said Sgt. Steve Morris of the Sheriff's Office.…..We recently overflew the property and saw what
<br />we believed to be marijuana growing on his property," Morris said. When federal agents and sheriff's deputies arrived, "he had two rifles right next to him," Morris said of Stewart.
<br />"There were 22 firearms taken from the house, several of which were loaded firearms which were accessible…… http://www.triplicate.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=9862 Police nab two men
<br />and seize $10,000 in marijuana By Dispatch Staff Police arrested two Gilroy men in connection with a marijuana growing a sales operation, police said…..the Anti-Crime Team and the Unified
<br />Narcotic Enforcement Team served a search warrant at a home…….At the home, officers found about two pounds of marijuana -some pre-packaged for sale -seven mature plants, cash, digital
<br />scales and packaging
<br />21 material, police said. The seized marijuana and plants were worth about $10,000, police said. http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/248270-police-nab-two-men-and-seize-10000-inmarijuana
<br />Fremont police find six pounds of marijuana in, under home Ben Aguirre Jr. /Bay Area News Group /09/15/2008 FREMONT — Police recovered more than six pounds of marijuana from a South
<br />Sundale neighborhood home early Monday after someone tipped authorities off about the drugs, a sergeant said. The marijuana was found in three locations — in the backyard, in a bedroom
<br />and under the house……Police were dispatched to a home on Porter Street after an unidentified man reported seeing someone drop off several bags of marijuana earlier in the night, Mazzone
<br />said. http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10472296?nclick_check=1 Drug agents raid pot farms in upscale Calif. homes The Associated Press /09/16/2008 SACRAMENTO—Drug agents say
<br />they have arrested six key players in a Sacramentobased drug ring that was growing hundreds of marijuana plants in upscale suburban homes. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special
<br />agent Gordon Taylor says nearly 800 plants were found in a posh home next to an elementary school in El Dorado Hills…..Another 500 were found in a home in Placerville, a Gold Rush era
<br />town about 43 miles east of the state capital. Equipment used to grow marijuana plants was found inside a house in Cameron Park, an upscale enclave between El Dorado Hills and Placerville.
<br />Gordon says the probe began when authorities found more than 2,000 plants growing inside two Placer County homes a year ago….. http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10479022 Elk Grove police
<br />uncover another network of indoor pot farms By Sandy Louey /Thursday, September 18, 2008 Elk Grove police have uncovered another network of homes used for growing marijuana. In the latest
<br />series of raids, which took place Wednesday, police served warrants on 12 homes in Elk Grove and Sacramento. More than 2,000 marijuana plants were confiscated from the network of five
<br />Elk Grove homes that were used for indoor marijuana growing operations….The raid in Elk Grove came only a day after an investigation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration resulted
<br />in a series of raids of a network of homes in El Dorado Hills, Placerville, Cameron Park, Sacramento, Elk Grove and Lincoln that resulted in more than 1,500 marijuana plants being seized…..Elk
<br />Grove police raided 21 homes last fall. From summer 2006 to early 2007, the DEA busted a network of 50 homes in the Central Valley, stretching from Sacramento to Modesto. Fifteen of
<br />the homes were in Elk Grove. That operation was linked to a Bay Area crime ring. http://www.sacbee.com/102/story/1248319.html FAIRFIELD: TWO MEN ARRESTED AFTER POLICE FIND MARIJUANA
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<br />22 FAIRFIELD (BCN): Fairfield police arrested two Fairfield men and seized about one pound of marijuana and $6,000 in cash after a search of an apartment Wednesday night……Etue, who already
<br />has several drug cases pending against him, was arrested and booked into the Solano County Jail for possession of marijuana for sale, destruction of evidence, committing a felony while
<br />out on bail, and being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition…... http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=bcn&item=MARIJUANA-ARRESTS-bagm-More pot gardens found in suburban Calif.
<br />homes The Associated Press /09/27/2008 CHICO, Calif.—Authorities are finding marijuana gardens hidden in suburban homes from Chico to Modesto. Butte County officers found pot growing
<br />in six Chico homes, including three in the same apartment complex that had been modified so marijuana could be grown without neighbors knowing. Four people were arrested. Officers seized
<br />275 plants, 10 pounds of processed pot, firearms and nearly $15,000 in cash Thursday. Modesto police found about $100,000 and a large number of plants at a rental home. And in Stockton,
<br />officers arrested three people, including a 67-year-old cardiovascular surgeon, after they found 120 marijuana plants, weapons and thousands of dollars in an upscale home. A federal
<br />grand jury this week indicted five people for similar grows in Placer and El Dorado counties. http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10577915 Out Door Grows Deputies take out marijuana field
<br />near Chualar July 8, 2008 A marijuana garden with an estimated value of $24 million was eradicated today by Monterey County deputies just north of Chualar,…..Deputies found about 6,000
<br />marijuana plants in the garden. They estimated the street value at $24 million, had the plants been allowed to mature for harvesting. http://thecalifornian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/NEW
<br />S01/80708010/1002 $35 million worth of marijuana seized near Hearst Castle Associated Press /07/08/2008 SAN SIMEON -Narcotics agents have seized 7,081 marijuana plants worth an estimated
<br />$35 million that were growing near Hearst Castle in the coastal town of San Simeon…..Hearst Ranch manager Cliff Garrison says the bust was on a remote ridge area of the ranch. Officers
<br />found a campsite near the plants, which were being watered by an irrigation system….. http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9817740 Marijuana gardens hazard firefighters Published:
<br />Wednesday, July 9, 2008 11:55 AM CDT …..On 6/30/08 CAL FIRE advised that one of their bull dozers had pushed into one of the marijuana garden. In an effort to make the area safe for
<br />fire personnel members from
<br />23 the Marijuana Suppression Unit along with members from the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force and Butte County Sheriff's Deputies entered and cleared three of the five plantations.
<br />It was difficult to enter and clear these marijuana plantations due to the fire danger and heavy smoke around these gardens…..The gardens were being watered by a gravity fed irrigation
<br />system from black plastic pipe supplied with water from a nearby creek. Four abandoned campsites were located throughout the garden system. http://gridleyherald.com/articles/2008/07/09/news/news06.tx
<br />t $23M worth of marijuana removed from mountains The Associated Press /07/09/2008 SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—Narcotics officials have removed almost 20,000 marijuana plants worth $23 million
<br />from public land in the Santa Cruz Mountains…..Almost 8,000 plants with buds were hauled away to be disposed of. Plants yet to produce marijuana were left to wilt on the hillsides. Officials
<br />say the five pot gardens were initially spotted by helicopter fire crews battling the Summit Fire in late May. No arrests were made. http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9827527
<br />Man killed, 2 flee in Saratoga pot farm raid Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer /Friday, July 11, 2008 Saratoga --One armed man was shot and killed and two others escaped on foot
<br />into the brush during a raid early Thursday on a marijuana patch in the hills south of Saratoga, a Santa Clara County sheriff's lieutenant said. The shooting happened when five deputies
<br />and 15 other officers confronted the men at the patch….."The deputies started to enter a large marijuana garden and encountered three subjects armed with guns," Wise said. "During the
<br />encounter, shots were fired. One subject was shot and fatally wounded, and two others fled on foot."…..It took responding officers 90 minutes to reach the site of the shooting and farm,
<br />where there were at least 10,000 pot plants growing, she added….. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/10/BACT11N1DV.DTL&tsp=1 Officials seize $20M in marijuana Published:
<br />July 14, 2008 at 8:05 PM SAN DIEGO, July 14 (UPI) --Federal authorities said they raided three cultivated fields in California, removing at least 7,200 marijuana plants worth about $20
<br />million…..A trafficker's living area contained a tent, shower facility and edible goods…..The Union Tribune reported 60 sites used for harvesting marijuana have been raided and 128,000
<br />plants have been removed by authorities in San Diego this year. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/14/Officials_seize_20M_in_marijuana/UPI-72071216080349/Pot garden, 1,130 plants destroyed
<br />in Madera Co. Led by a SWAT team, Madera County sheriff's narcotics officers and members of the state Department of Fish & Game on Tuesday eradicated a marijuana garden found growing
<br />on private property near Raymond. Erica Stuart, a sheriff's spokeswoman, said 1,130 plants were destroyed. Had the plants been processed for sales, they would have yielded more than
<br />$3 million, she said….
<br />24 http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/733234.html Marijuana garden destroyed The Monterey County Herald /Herald Staff Report /07/15/2008 A marijuana garden growing in the area of the
<br />Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel Valley was eradicated Monday, the Sheriff's office said. Sgt. Daniel Karamitis said there were about 32,000 pot plants at the garden off Robison Canyon
<br />Road. Had the plants been allowed to grow to maturity, the marijuana could have fetched an estimated $128 million, he said….. http://www.montereyherald.com/breaking/ci_9888372?nclick_check=1
<br />DFG Wardens Arrest Six Suspects in Marijuana Eradication Operation on Sensitive Ecological Site Published on Jul 22, 2008 /DFG State, local and federal enforcement agents arrested six
<br />suspects and removed 4,100 marijuana plants from a sensitive state ecological area in Kern County….."Our wardens, assisted by other enforcement officers, did an outstanding job to end
<br />the destruction of such a protected ecological site and to further protect the public.....Some of of the suspects have lengthy criminal histories and have used up to 14 different aliases
<br />from prior law enforcement contacts. The arrests netted 9.5 pounds of processed marijuana, and 4,100 plants with a street value of $16.5 million. Also seized were $6,900 in cash, two
<br />vehicles and three firearms.…..Wardens suspect that deer and other animals may have been killed to protect the marijuana plants from being eaten….. http://yubanet.com/california/DFG-Wardens-Arrest-Si
<br />x-Suspects-in-Marijuana-Eradication-Operation-on-Sensitive-Ecological-Site.php $12 million in marijuana seized July 23, 2008 -5:40PM BEATRIZ E. VALENZUELA Staff Writer SILVERWOOD LAKE
<br />— More than $12 million in marijuana was seized from an outdoor marijuana grow east of Silverwood Lake, officials said Wednesday. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Marijuana
<br />Eradication Team seized 3,460 marijuana plants Tuesday,…..The plants, which ranged in size from 4 feet to 7 feet, were in the budding stage and considered to be ready for harvest, according
<br />to officials. The estimated value of the grow is $12,110,000…..Detectives were also involved in the seizure of more than 3,000 plants on Monday in the Houston Creek area, Miller said.
<br />That grow was estimated at about $11 million, according to officials. http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/seized_7649___article.html/silverwood_lake.html Authorities clear marijuana grow
<br />site in Lindsay By KELLY JURKOVICH /THE PORTERVILLE RECORDER /July 25, 2008 -The Tulare County Sheriff’s Tactical Enforcement Personnel reports that 39 marijuana plants were found and
<br />eradicated Wednesday…..The report said that had the plants been allowed to reach maturity, their street value would have reached $156,000. No suspects were identified in the news release.
<br />25 http://www.recorderonline.com/news/county_37190___article.html/site_eradicated.html Back yard Marijuana farm Uncovered By: Bill Curtis /July 27th, 2008 Detectives served a search
<br />warrant at the residence and located approximately 1⁄2 pound of marijuana inside. In the back yard detectives located a green house which had 9 mature marijuana plants growing inside…..This
<br />investigation was begun after detectives received a flyer advertising free samples of marijuana at this residence. The occupant had a medicinal marijuana recommendation. The investigation
<br />will be submitted to the district attorney’s office for review and possible charges of possession of marijuana for sale. http://www.1bakersfield.com/news/read/2/152495 Marijuana bust
<br />in the forest Federal, state and local law enforcement agents seized 19,951 marijuana plants this week from three areas of San Bernardino National Forest in Riverside County. The estimated
<br />street value of the marijuana is more than $60 million.…..The officers found several campsites in the canyons north of Idyllwild, as well as extensive irrigation systems, fertilizer,
<br />trash, propane tanks and other items in the marijuana plots. Large areas of native shrubs and trees were cut down to make room for the plants. The confiscated marijuana was carried by
<br />helicopters to trucks then transported for disposal. No arrests were made and the investigation will continue http://www.bearvalleynews.com/bvn%201072808.htm T.N.T. And S.W.A.T. Eradicate
<br />Another 6,357 Marijuana Plants Bill Johnson /MML News Director /July 28, 2008 Sonora, CA --Friday the Tuolumne Narcotics Team, members of S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics) along
<br />with other patrol and jail deputies eradicated 6,357 marijuana plants from an area above the Beardsley Reservoir. The plants ranged in height between three and five feet. The garden
<br />appeared to have been 75 percent harvested Thursday evening…..Using an average figure of $1,500 per plant, the Sheriff's Office effectively took $9,535,500 out of the pockets of the
<br />Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization. http://www.mymotherlode.com/News/article/kvml/1217265589 Pot crop worth nearly $14M seized in Central Coast The Associated Press /07/31/2008 ATASCADERO,
<br />Calif.—Authorities say they have seized thousands of marijuana plants from the Cerro Alto hills near Atascadero in a haul estimated to be worth nearly $14 million. San Luis Obispo sheriff's
<br />officials say 3,900 plants were seized Wednesday. Investigators also found an unoccupied campsite in the area. The marijuana plants were discovered Sunday while authorities searched
<br />for a missing hiker….. http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10054408 California Agencies Uncover Hidden Pot Farm
<br />26 Adam Foxman /Ventura County Star (California) /July 31, 2008 To an untrained eye, the chaparral-covered hillsides under the circling helicopter looked like any others, but Ventura
<br />County sheriff's Cmdr. Gary Pentis saw a few spots of emerald green -telltale markers of marijuana farms. Authorities had spotted the pot farms in Los Padres National Forest about eight
<br />miles from Rose Valley north of Ojai about three weeks ago. On Wednesday, they seized 7,514 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of more than $15 million…..The raid was the
<br />third large marijuana seizure in Ventura County in as many weeks. Authorities found and destroyed more than 14,000 pot plants on July 15 and an additional 7,249 plants on July 24. The
<br />total seized so far is nearly as much as is normally found in the forest in an entire year, authorities said. "It's probably going to be a record year,"…..Sheriff's officials believe
<br />the pot cultivation problem is getting worse, partly because of an increase in the influence of Mexican drug cartels. They also believe drug cartels are behind an increase in violence
<br />associated with pot farms this year…..Sheriff's and Forest Service officials said continuing eradication efforts are important because of the influence of organized crime, environmental
<br />degradation and danger to park visitors. …..The pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers used by growers filter into local water sources and can affect the entire food chain in a wide
<br />area, authorities said. The diversion of natural water for pot irrigation also can harm the environment, they said. Growers are often armed, and while the pot farms dismantled Wednesday
<br />were in rugged terrain about a mile from the nearest road, others are close enough that park visitors could stumble upon them, authorities said….. http://www.officer.com/web/online/Top-News-Stories/C
<br />alifornia-Agencies-Uncover-Hidden-Pot-Farm/1$42570 Officers conduct drug raids in five California counties By David Richie -drichie@sacbee.com /August 1, 2008 A four-month investigation
<br />has resulted in the seizure of an estimated $5.6 million in marijuana and the dismantling of a major organization also involved in sales of methamphetamine and cocaine, state Bureau
<br />of Narcotics Enforcement officials announced Thursday. State and local officers swooped down on multiple locations Wednesday in El Dorado, Placer, Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Sacramento
<br />counties, making 21 arrests. In addition to the marijuana, agents seized about 3 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, confiscated about $10,000 in cash and took firearms from suspects
<br />during several arrests, officials said. Marijuana gardens on public land were raided in the Latrobe area of El Dorado County and near Lake Clementine in Placer County. About 1,700 plants
<br />were seized at each location. Officials estimated the value of the marijuana under cultivation at $5.5 million. They also seized about 60 pounds of processed marijuana worth another
<br />$102,000, they said…..Gardeners taken into custody at the growing sites were armed with shotguns. He also said all of the 21 people arrested were illegal immigrants.….This was an organization
<br />involved in illegal drug activity "from Kern County up into the state of Oregon," Giorgi said. http://www.sacbee.com/crime/story/1125457.html Thousands of marijuana plants removed from
<br />forest By ESTHER AVILA /THE PORTERVILLE RECORDER /August 2, 2008
<br />27 SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST — More than 26,000 marijuana plants were removed by the combined effort of Federal and State agencies during the past week from public lands located above
<br />Springville. And officials said there was a lot damage to environment caused by the illegal activity. On Thursday, officials found and removed more than 7,000 feet of irrigation tubing,
<br />more than 2,000 pounds of garbage and hazardous waste, more than 200 pounds of fertilizer and two gallons of pesticides…..growers can live in remote locations near the sites for months
<br />at a time and officers have come across camps with exercise facilities, tree houses, barbed wire fences and numerous firearms. The camps often contain cooking and sleeping areas within
<br />view of the cultivation site..….The news release said many bears and other animals were killed during the past few years by the growers. Also, herbicides and pesticides are used to remove
<br />competing vegetation and gnawing rodents. The chemicals, human waste, and garbage often end up in rivers after winter rains, the news release said. Irrigation systems remove water needed
<br />by fish from small streams, and soil compaction in the gardens lead to erosion. In 2007, more than 760,000 illegal marijuana plants were seized on California’s Federal lands managed
<br />by the Sequoia National Forest, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and Bureau of Land Management, the release said. http://www.recorderonline.com/news/sequoia_37302___article.html/forest_nation
<br />al.html Three men arrested near site of marijuana garden in San Jose Bay City News Service /08/02/2008 The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has announced the eradication of a marijuana
<br />garden in an unincorporated area of the county and the arrests of three San Jose men on charges related to cultivation on July 25…..The eradication yielded about 5,300 marijuana plants
<br />with an estimated street value of about $15.9 million. http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_10078688?nclick_check=1 Officers destroy marijuana plants By Record Searchlight staff /August
<br />6, 2008 More than 32,000 marijuana plants were destroyed Tuesday after they were discovered growing in the Platina area of western Shasta County…..Two different marijuana growing sites
<br />had been located in July…..A total of 32,718 plants were destroyed. Three Hispanic men were seen fleeing the Platina Road site, but no one was taken into custody. More than 200,000 marijuana
<br />plants have been destroyed this season. http://www.redding.com/news/2008/aug/06/officers-destroy-marijuana-plants/Marijuana sweep nets big payoff BY BRETT WILKISON /August 6, 2008 Federal,
<br />state and local law enforcement agencies say they have seized more than 340,000 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $1.4 billion and arrested 36 suspects in a sweeping
<br />crackdown on marijuana cultivation on public land in eastern Tulare County over the last week.…..Up to 80 percent of the marijuana grown in the United States is grown on public lands,
<br />much of it controlled by Mexican cartels, Walters said.…..Last year, Tulare County spent $350,000 and was forced to assign much of its gang task force to public lands drug policing during
<br />the summer, county officials said.
<br />28 The joint operation, however, helped the county quickly equal its 2007 record-setting marijuana busts and dismantle some of the infrastructure — irrigation hoses, stream diversions,
<br />and tents and cabins — that growers erect….. http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080806/NEWS01/808060314 Mexican cartels running pot farms in U.S. national
<br />forest From Dan Simon /"American Morning" Correspondent /Fri August 8, 2008 SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, California (CNN) --…..Illegal immigrants connected to Mexico's drug cartels are growing
<br />hundreds of millions of dollars worth of marijuana in the heart of one of America's national treasures, authorities say. It's a booming business that, federal officials say, feeds Mexico's
<br />most violent drug traffickers…..Ten thousand marijuana plants, some 5 feet tall, dotted the mountainside's steep terrain amid thick brush, often near streams. This garden's street value
<br />is an estimated $40 million, authorities said….."This is about serious criminal organizations," Walters said. "They're willing to kill anybody who gets in their way. They're taking money
<br />back to those who kill prosecutors, judges and law enforcement." Over the past eight days, a federal, state and county law enforcement initiative called Operation LOCCUST has eradicated
<br />420,000 marijuana plants here worth more than $1 billion on the street. By comparison, authorities eradicated 330,000 plants over the six-month growing season last month, said Lt. Mike
<br />Boudreaux of the Tulare County Sheriff's Department. Authorities have arrested 38 people and seized 29 automatic weapons, high-powered rifles and other guns, Boudreaux said. For years,
<br />Mexican drug cartels have used the remote forest to conduct and conceal their business. But the pot production has intensified because it has become harder and harder to smuggle marijuana
<br />across the U.S.-Mexico border, Walters said…… The goal is not just to eradicate the plants but to go after the organizations," Walters said. What's different this year from years past,
<br />officials say, is that they're working to destroy the entire infrastructure of the marijuana grown in this region, from the irrigation systems to capturing the growers to ripping up
<br />the plants. And they're trying to get at the heart of the cartels. …..Allen Ishida, a member of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, said the illegal activity is alarming. "I want
<br />to state that the guys growing the marijuana are not the guys I went to college with," he said. "These are organized drug cartels out of Mexico." Boudreaux says authorities are furious
<br />that cartels are operating in a U.S. forest. "It's something that's troubling for many of us in law enforcement," he said. "You have illegal criminal activity in the mountain regions
<br />not only destroying the natural beauty of the landscape but as well as the potential for this product to reach the children of this community." http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/08/pot.eradication/Ton
<br />s of Marijuana Hauled by Helicopter South of Palm Desert By Nathan Baca /Aug 12, 2008 Tons of marijuana were taken away from local mountains for the second day in a row…..This was no
<br />small pot raid: 26,000 plants on day one and around that many on day two. It was spread over 6 different sites in the remoteness of the Santa Rosa Mountains near the community of Pinyon
<br />Pines. It takes a two hour off-road drive from
<br />29 Highway 74 to the get to the sites. Marijuana busts this big lately have become common in these mountains……Undercover Riverside County Sheriff's Deputies and National Guard troops
<br />teamed up for this bust two weeks in the making. It was just in time, the marijuana buds were getting close to harvest. Each one of these plants has a street value of around $1,000.
<br />Most of them are grown by Mexican drug cartels. Deputies haven't found those growing the marijuana yet. "They're obtaining their water sources from the springs up there, up on the mountains.
<br />Another issue is contamination," said Valenzuela. The pesticides and toxic chemicals used to grow the marijuana plants were stopped before reaching the drinking water according to local
<br />water agencies. http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=8830867&nav=9qrx 8-Foot-Tall Marijuana Plants Found In Snelling Friday, August 15, 2008 | 11:55 PM Merced County, CA, USA (KFSN)
<br />--North valley authorities broke up eight marijuana growing operations this morning, including some in an area where children often play. This is one truckload full of the eight foot
<br />tall plants deputies cut down this Friday morning……It started out as assist to Fish and Game. They had a report of someone poaching in the area, so we used our air service to assist
<br />in searching for the poachers and that's when they found the marijuana grow." Thirteen deputies spent nearly seven hours uprooting and destroying all of the plants. http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?
<br />section=news/local&id=6331013 Federal raids net approximately 5,000 marijuana plants By KAREN WILKINSON, The Eureka Reporter /Aug 15 2008 Nearly 5,000 marijuana plants were seized from
<br />two southern Humboldt County areas this week, in an operation dubbed “Green Acres” that again brought federal agents to the area. Drug Enforcement Agency agents, in concert with Humboldt
<br />County Sheriff’s Office deputies, raided “multiple” parcels with outdoor marijuana grows…..Deputy Todd Fulton said that unfortunately, this county is “inundated with people who don’t
<br />have the same moral standards and respect for life that the general public does.” “There are people out there who will put a plant before your life,” he said. “If you’re in the woods,
<br />be careful where you’re going.” http://www.eurekareporter.com/article/080815-federal-raids-net-approximately-5000-marijuana-plants 7 arrested in forest marijuana plantations The Associated
<br />Press /08/18/2008 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—Authorities arrested seven people and seized about $20 million worth of marijuana
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