Task force seizes 34,000 plants from hemp farm in San Jacinto
Riverside County's cannabis task force searched a licensed hemp farm on Bridge Street in San Jacinto on 28 July 2022, seizing more than 34,000 marijuana plants from 124 greenhouses and over 4,600 pounds of processed cannabis. No one had been arrested and the investigation was continuing.
🇺🇸 Bridge Street, San Jacinto, Riverside County · California, United States
Riverside County’s Cannabis Regulation Task Force (CRTF), led by the District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation, served a search warrant on 28 July 2022 at a business in the 18700 block of Bridge Street in the unincorporated area of San Jacinto.[1][2]The business held a permit as an industrial hemp farm but was not permitted to grow or sell marijuana.[1][2]
On the property the task force found 124 greenhouses in which marijuana was being cultivated.[1][2]Officers seized more than 34,000 marijuana plants, removed for destruction, along with more than 4,600 pounds (about 2,086.5 kg) of processed cannabis and a ghost handgun.[1][2]The next day investigators searched the Temecula home of the farm’s permit holder and seized several more pounds of marijuana as evidence.[1][2]
No arrests yet
No one had been arrested or charged and the investigation was continuing.[1][2]The task force, which brings together the District Attorney’s investigators with Corona, Hemet and Riverside police, the state Department of Cannabis Control, the California National Guard counter-drug task force and county code enforcement, said it targets criminal activity while leaving legally operating businesses alone.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
of them seized
34,000
Cannabis
2.0865 t
Sites
124
Agency
Riverside County Cannabis Regulation Task Force
Agency type
Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Living plants (34,000 plants); Herbal cannabis (2.0865 t)
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