Posted on 07/08/2021 10:59:31 AM PDT by BeauBo
Authorities in Southern California have seized more than 16 tons of marijuana worth an estimated $1.19 billion, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said Wednesday. The 10-day sting is the largest eradication of illegal marijuana cultivations in the history of the department.
The operation, which began on June 8, resulted in 22 felony arrests, 109 misdemeanor arrests, and 19 arrests from water theft enforcement teams, officials said. More than 200 locations were served with search warrants. Nearly 375,000 marijuana plants and 33,480 pounds of harvested marijuana were seized, along with 65 vehicles, 180 animals and $28,000.
Officials say they believe international cartels are behind the illegal large-scale marijuana farms.
"We're talking about the cartels," Lancaster, California, Mayor Rex Parris said at a Wednesday press conference. "We are not talking about mom and pop people selling marijuana that they grew in their backyard. This is the cartels. We are very very close to driving down the freeway and seeing bodies hanging from the overpasses. That is what's coming."
While California legalized the recreational use of marijuana in 2018, illegal grows of the crop have been on the rise in the state. Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Narcotic Bureau identified over 500 illegal marijuana cultivations in 2021, increasing from the 150 identified in 2020, according to a June statement. Detectives found that the average size per cultivation at farms increased to 15 greenhouses, up from eight per farm in the year prior.
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Likely less than a day’s worth of drugs moving across the southern border ...
So much for keeping the drug trade out of the cartels’ hands. Lefties and liberals are not even as smart as rocks.
UP IN SMOKE......
And the new seedlings will be in the ground by the weekend...
of illegal marijuana cultivations
I didn’t know that.
So, in California you can have legal and illegal marijuana?
Must be a tax thing.
5.56mm
>>While California legalized the recreational use of marijuana in 2018, illegal grows of the crop have been on the rise in the state.
I was told that it would disappear and so would the cartels
They were just going green. Cultivating plants that suck that dangerous green house gas , CO2, out of the air. What’s the problem?
If CA was not so hot for tax revenue, they would just let everyone grow their own.
But there are strident restrictions in most counties that preclude outdoor growing.
Some counties DO allow it, most do not.
Photos.....
Part of the “Green” New Deal.
A pretty shade of green like the 10% of the green cash payout The Big Guy in the White House was going to get until some do-gooder stuck his nose into the deal.
Also, is it just me or does that cash figure seem a little light?
Up in Smoke....
Official Notice: The Public Is Invited to the Controlled Burn but Must Pay a $50 Fee For Admission To Be Downwind.
You load 16 tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me, cuz I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store...
Tennessee Ernie Ford hit song....
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
The state-financed pot copter made its yearly flight over my farm a couple days ago. 3 years ago they were curious about some huge castor been plants, they spent five minutes circling and circling before they figured it out.
If they spot anything then a ground team soon gets a faxed search warrant, and then a half dozen unmarked SUVs with tinted windows come screaming up your farm driveway.
I actually worry about them making a mistaken conclusion. If they were dumb enough to actually ID my garden plants as pot, then they could kick my door in, hand cuff me, shoot my pets, and steal my computer. All before double checking that it was actually pot.
Behaviors changed to worse?
Why not legal in the same state?
If course! Why do you think states have legalized pot?
In Nebraska pot is illegal but they have a tax stamp. Get caught in possession over a certain amount and you get a fat tax fine and the state has a bonfire.
You seize 16 tons, what do you get?
A bunch of small players in your LEO net
St. Peter don’t you call ‘em ‘cos they can’t go
They owe their souls to the cartel store
The difference this time is the cartels are now up against California's dem taxation cartel, hence the enforcement action.
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