Ore. Sheriff teams with Calif. officers to bust monster pot farms
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - Sheriff's deputies from Jackson County went over the state line to help seize more than 200,000 marijuana plants in Northern California. Sheriff Mike Winters says the plants would have had a street value of about $5,000. If that price were obtained, the total value of the plants seized would have been about $1 billion. The largest garden ever taken from Jackson County was about 50,000 plants. Winters says his deputies often team with those in Siskiyou County, Calif., to eradicate marijuana gardens because of the large number of officers needed to raid a site and pull plants. He says the plants were only six miles across the state line - close enough to affect southern Oregon. Information from: Mail Tribune,
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