{"id":502487,"date":"2010-04-01T18:43:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T22:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01311009ffd9970c"},"modified":"2010-04-01T18:43:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T22:43:10","slug":"6-2-million-in-pot-plants-found-in-placerita-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/502487","title":{"rendered":"$6.2 million in pot plants found in Placerita Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles County sheriff\u2019s narcotics team on Thursday discovered what it says was $6.2 million worth of marijuana plants growing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?source=ig&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=&amp;=&amp;q=site%3Alatimes.com+%22placerita+canyon+state+park%22&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=\">Placerita Canyon State Park<\/a> in Newhall.<\/p>\n<p>Narcotics detectives with the marijuana eradication team were hiking in a fairly remote part of the canyon Thursday morning when they found several thousand plants being guarded by two men, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>When investigators moved in on the crop, the two men ran into the canyon. The men evaded capture even though a helicopter was used to help in the search.<\/p>\n<p>The specialized narcotics unit scouts potential open-air growing areas across the county and monitors them, said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Sheriff&#8217;s Department. The outdoor marijuana growing season runs from March to the fall and during that time investigators target large concealed crops hidden in remote forests or canyons. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the first operation of the season,\u201d Whitmore said.<\/p>\n<p>The unit uses helicopters to help identify the marijuana-growing areas. Over the years, investigators have uncovered large marijuana fields deep in remote parts of the Angeles National Forest.<\/p>\n<p>The heavily disguised growing areas are often operated by Mexican drug traffickers, serviced by farmers brought across the border and guarded by heavily armed men, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Winton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles County sheriff\u2019s narcotics team on Thursday discovered what it says was $6.2 million worth of marijuana plants growing in Placerita Canyon State Park in Newhall. Narcotics detectives with the marijuana eradication team were hiking in a fairly remote part of the canyon Thursday morning when they found several thousand plants being guarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}