$1.7B worth of pot seized
in Central Calif sweep
Snip:
Nearly 100 people have been arrested in an ongoing sweep of marijuana-growing operations that has netted more than $1.7 billion worth of pot in California’s Sierra Nevada range, federal and state agents said Thursday. Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said several Mexican drug cartels were involved in the grow operations and that most of the 97 people arrested are Mexican nationals. Agents were combing tracts of public land in the remote stretches of Fresno, Madera and Tulare counties. “Tremendous devastation has been done and continues to be done by these industrial-sized grows,”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/29/national/a112749D21.DTL&tsp=1
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