8,000 marijuana plants eradicated in the Inyo Mountains
A multi-agency force eradicated 8,000 marijuana plants and seized 100 pounds (about 45.4 kilograms) of processed marijuana from an illegal grow in a remote part of the Inyo Mountains on 5 September 2018. No arrests or growers were reported at the site.
🇺🇸 Inyo Mountains, Inyo National Forest, California · California, United States
Plants destroyed
8,000
Cannabis
45.36 kg
Agencies
U.S. Forest Service, Inyo County Sheriff's Office +2
On 5 September 2018, Inyo National Forest staff working with sheriff’s deputies, wildlife officers and federal agents eradicated 8,000 marijuana plants growing illegally on forest land in a remote area of the Inyo Mountains.[1]Officers also seized100 pounds of processed marijuana at the site.[1]
US Forest Service law enforcement, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office, the Mono County District Attorney’s Office and California Fish and Wildlife secured the site and destroyed the plants in coordination with the Drug Enforcement Administration.[1]The agencies warned residents that illegal grows damage ecosystems and that anyone stumbling on a cultivation site should leave at once and report its location.[1]
Case data
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Plants destroyed
8,000
Cannabis
45.36 kg
Agencies
U.S. Forest Service; Inyo County Sheriff's Office; California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Drug Enforcement Administration
California's Unified Cannabis Enforcement Task Force seized or destroyed 55,308 pounds of illicit cannabis and eradicated 108,226 plants between July and September 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom's office said. The quarter's operations across nine counties led to 14 arrests, nine firearms and $29,215 in cash, and brought the state's nine-month total to more than $230 million in cannabis.
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