DEA seizes 41,000 marijuana plants on private land at Warner Springs
The DEA and its Narcotics Task Force eradicated about 41,000 marijuana plants from a 40-acre private parcel at Sunshine Summit near Warner Springs on 30 June and 1 July 2012, valued at an estimated 41 million dollars wholesale, with no arrests made at the time.
🇺🇸 Sunshine Summit, Warner Springs, San Diego County, California · California, United States
The Drug Enforcement Administration and its Narcotics Task Force eradicated about 41,000 marijuana plants from a 40-acre private parcel at Sunshine Summit near Warner Springs on 30 June and 1 July 2012.[1]Officers acted under a California search warrant and called it the largest outdoor marijuana grow seizure on private property in San Diego County history.[1]The plants had an estimated wholesale value of 41 million dollars.[1]
Water was supplied from two large tanks on the property, and officers found a 30-round magazine for a semi-automatic weapon at the base of one tank along with fertilizer chemicals.[1]It took 35 officers and agents two days to dismantle a grow of that size.[1]No arrests had been made when the statement was published on 2 July, and the agency said the investigation was continuing.[1]
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Only the DEA's statement could be opened for this event, in its archived copy, because the live page refuses automated reading; no independent press account was found.
No arrests had been made when the statement was published and the investigation was ongoing; later arrests were not reported in the opened source.
The DEA page carries a photo of a truck holding the bulk of the seized plants, but the image file itself could not be recovered, so no photo is published here.
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