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MALIBU -- Police uprooted more than 7,000 marijuana plants Wednesday from an illicit garden hidden deep in the Santa Monica Mountains, authorities said.
The plants, which were being grown on approximately four acres off Mulholland Highway, would have had a street value of more than $7 million if they had been allowed to mature, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Josie Woolum said.
Sheriff's detectives and rangers from the National Parks Service used a helicopter Wednesday to ferry the plants to a location near the Malibu County Club, where they were trucked to an undisclosed area to be destroyed, Woolum said.
Investigators discovered the plants last weekend, Woolum said.
It appeared that someone was camping at the plot to care for the plants, which ranged from four to seven feet, but the site was uninhabited when investigators arrived.
No arrests were made, and the investigation is continuing, she said.
LA Daily News
By Andrea Cavanaugh
© 2004 Los Angeles Daily News
https://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2420289,00.html
The plants, which were being grown on approximately four acres off Mulholland Highway, would have had a street value of more than $7 million if they had been allowed to mature, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Josie Woolum said.
Sheriff's detectives and rangers from the National Parks Service used a helicopter Wednesday to ferry the plants to a location near the Malibu County Club, where they were trucked to an undisclosed area to be destroyed, Woolum said.
Investigators discovered the plants last weekend, Woolum said.
It appeared that someone was camping at the plot to care for the plants, which ranged from four to seven feet, but the site was uninhabited when investigators arrived.
No arrests were made, and the investigation is continuing, she said.
LA Daily News
By Andrea Cavanaugh
© 2004 Los Angeles Daily News
https://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2420289,00.html
