C.A.M.P. and Kern County Sheriff Major Violators Unit eradicate 21,118 Marijuana plants


Published on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:09 PM PDT

Kern County Sheriff's Office

On 8-23-2010 and 8-24-2010, Kern County Sheriff's Office Major Violators Unit, C.A.M.P. (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting), H.I.D.T.A. (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area), and I.C.E. (Immigration Customs Enforcement), served several search warrants for Marijuana in different remote forest areas of Kern County.

Deputies seized approximately eight hundred plants and a .22 caliber rifle from a small Marijuana grow located near Cedar Creek and Highway 155. A search warrant was then served in a remote area near Onyx. Approximately 16,000 plants were seized.

The following day, the same law enforcements entities served a search warrant at a private ranch in South Kern County near Lebec. Deputies seized 4409 Marijuana plants. No suspects were located in any of the Marijuana grows. Helicopters assigned to C.A.M.P. and the Kern County Sheriff's Office were used during the operations.

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    Allan wrote on Sep 1, 2010 9:00 AM:

    " I'm hearing the word "sin' inn these posts. Marijuana is illegal because of misguided individuals and their propaganda. It would not be a "sin" were it made legal. Now is the time for a change in the legal status. I know all the arguments against legalization. They don't hold water. Legalize and regulate it the same way alcohol is done. "

    THINK ABOUT IT wrote on Aug 31, 2010 6:40 PM:

    " Truth, drug cartels exist today only because drugs are illegal! we don't have alcholol cartels now do we? I personally do not believe all drugs should be legalized but I don't think pot is so bad. anyone who wants it is getting it anyway, it just makes sense to legalize it. I have two children and I hope they make the decision not to use drugs, but if given the choice between marijuana or alcholol I think the pot is safer. no... I know it is !!! "

    Mac wrote on Aug 31, 2010 12:30 PM:

    " The argument for legalizing pot can be made simply by remembering the example set by Prohibition. When alcohol was illegal there was a lot of crime surrounding it. When it became legal, regulated and taxed...not so much. "

    Truth of course wrote on Aug 30, 2010 5:04 PM:

    " This is stupid---you all know that pot is illegal for a reason...would you have the same drug cartels that are killing hundreds in Mexico living here? That is what would happen--sin begats sin! Remember we are a law abiding nation because without law, we are all criminals! Get real, give some reasonable solutions, not wishful thinking.... "

    Mac wrote on Aug 30, 2010 12:15 PM:

    " Outkast - Unfortunately, sticking to the more public areas and marked trails is probably the best way to be safe. Criminals who want to shoot you would be far off the beaten path. I also agree with Think About It - take the crime out of marijuana, make our forests safer. Plus it can be taxed. I'm sure there would be plenty of revenue coming in. "

    THINK ABOUT IT wrote on Aug 29, 2010 1:58 PM:

    " I think we should just make marijuana legal. California will benefit from the tax revenue, drug cartels will be out of business and our forest will be safer and not polluted with trash from these growers!!! "

    Truth of course wrote on Aug 29, 2010 12:13 AM:

    " Outcast: Only if you are "holding" yourself----no one has to fear law enforcement if they are not in sin themselves! "

    KVOutkast wrote on Aug 26, 2010 10:33 PM:

    " Makes me a bit more apprehensive about hiking/backpacking in the forest around here. "

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