Yosemite Rangers Find $22M Marijuana Operation

Aug 14, 2007 4:18 pm US/Pacific


Yosemite Rangers Find $22M Marijuana Operation



(CBS13) A new plant has been popping up in Yosemite National Park that doesn't have the rangers too happy.

On Monday, park rangers in Yosemite found 7,428 marijuana plants from three gardens in the park that was part of a full-blown growing operation.

At a value of $22 million dollars, the owners of the farm are going to be the ones who are not going to be happy.

According to officials, these Yosemite cultivation sites look similar to a Mexican drug trafficking enterprise, which includes watering systems, use of fertilizers and other dangerous chemicals.

The rangers say California based crime families aren’t normally near the drug farms because they often use illiterate and financially desperate Mexican nationals to do the actual cultivation.

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