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FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – 52 arrests are made across California for growing cannabis illegally.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra (below) announced the results on Thursday, October 4, 2018 in the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting Program (CAMP).
CAMP is the largest illegal marijuana eradication program in the nation.
The 12-week operation spanned 40 counties including Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, and Tulare Counties.
Agents were divided into four teams covering the Northern, Central and Southern California regions. The following counties were targeted: Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Inyo, Kern, Lake, Lassen, Los Angeles, Madera, Mariposa, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, San Joaquin, Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, Stanislaus, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Ventura, Yolo, and Yuba. –News Release from Office of Attorney General Xavier Becerra
Agents seized 110 weapons, and eradicated 614,267 plants in over 254 illegal grow sites across the state.
A CAMP team in Stanislaus County stopped drug traffickers from diverting water from the San Joaquin River in order to fuel their illegal operation.
In other cases, the CAMP team busted suspects using a deadly, banned pesticide called carbofuran.
Agents shut down these illegal grow sites, shielding public land from the dangerous chemical.
The 2018 operation is a product of a multi-agency collaboration between California’s Department of Justice, the US Department of Agriculture, US Forest Service, US Department of Interior, National Park Service, California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, US Dept. of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration, California National Guard, California Bureau of Land Management and the Central Valley High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program and other local law enforcement departments.
Click to listen to the report by KMJ’s Liz Kern:
