Published on Monday, August 18, 2008
By PAUL LAROCCO
Authorities seized more than 60,000 marijuana plants during four separate raids in remote areas of the San Bernardino National Forest over the past two weeks, arresting seven people with suspected ties to Mexican drug cartels, officials said Monday.
Although the discovery of large, outdoor marijuana plantations can be common this time of year, U.S. Forest Service officials said the arrests are rare -- and should be credited to more aggressive and sophisticated surveillance.
In a two-day raid of a pot farm west of Big Bear Lake that concluded Friday, a team of county sheriff's deputies, Forest Service officers and state and federal investigators arrested five men who had created numerous campsites to tend to 10,000-plants in a 1-square-mile operation. The men, ranging from age 19 to 33, were armed with rifles and dressed in camouflage
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