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5 arrested in large marijuana bust near Rosamond

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ROSAMOND – More than 2,500 marijuana plants were seized and five people were arrested on Friday when officers from various agencies served nine search warrants in the Kern County portion of the Neenach area, just west of Rosamond, authorities said.

The operation was conducted Friday, June 29, by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, with the assistance of the Southern Tri-County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Narcotics Task Force; deputies with Kern County Sheriff’s Office East Division substations; and officers from the Kern County Probation Department, according to a news release from the Kern County Sheriff’s Office.

“Investigators located and seized 2,508 marijuana plants, 30 pounds of processed marijuana, and four firearms… The estimated street value of the marijuana plants is $5,266,800 and the estimated street value for the processed marijuana is $21,000,” the news release states.

Alejandro Ramirez, 25, Josua Flores Santos, 27, Jose Garcia, 41, Adam Garcia, 20, and Lena Makshanoff, 71, were arrested on suspicion of various drug charges related to the illegal cultivation of marijuana, according to the news release.

Investigators also found restricted use pesticides, as well as holes used to dispose of waste at some of the grow sites, officials said.

“These items can cause environmental hazards for the surrounding areas. The public is reminded to follow the current laws set forth by the state and county as it relates to the cultivation and possession of marijuana,” the news release states.

No further information on the operation was immediately available.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Rosamond

17 comments for "5 arrested in large marijuana bust near Rosamond"

  3. Um, isn’t marijuana legal? Cops get their jollies wasting taxpayer money along with the supercitizen dinosaurs stuck in 1920 that need to mind their own f…..ng business. You lost the war on drugs, deal with it.

    • The local sheriff’s station thinks they have nothing better to do than chase down what amounts to an operating a business without a license charge. Of course, since the unlicensed business competes with a Wrecks Parris operation this sort of thuggery for hire is only to be expected.

  4. Arrested a 71 year old woman? Shame on you! Meanwhile, innocent children are being murdered, more and more often! Marijuana, a crime because the government isn’t getting it’s share of revenue! Our judicial system sucks!!

  5. It was “The Vigilantes Avengers” that did surveillance on them and followed them around. I personally know a few members. They’re senior citizens that run a clandestine anti-crime network against drug dealer, gangster’s and drug cartel. They secretly send the information to the police. They have an insider that’s on their payroll, named “Lisa Lisa.”

    • Your off in your math. Since weedwas legalized the value of the plants went down to 50 plants for a thousand dollars.

      Illegal weed isn’t safe as you read, they douse it with with toxic pesticides. Prescription weed is regulated and safer

  7. Complete waste of resources then they attempt to justify the waste with invironmental concerns? I call bs

  8. I have a mobile dispensary and I serve the AV and some surrounding communities.
    My business is currently a non profit that is here to serve patients in need of this type of medicine and soon to be recreational and for profit with CA government oversight.
    I also operate grow locations throughout the antelope valley and i know 90% of all indoor commercial growers through out this area.
    I can tell you right now there is not any “churches” or former church locations that grow marijuana. You are spreading rumors throughout our wonderful community.
    Take care.

  9. Meanwhile people get shot, and children neglected and abused. But hey at least the AV rednecks will have less weed to worry about.

    • It’s all about the revenue that the government doesn’t get on the sale of that marijuana! They could care less about actual people being shot, abused or murdered!

  10. Wow, because weed kills so many people each year huh?(SARCASM) The DEA should also look into the churches that are in the marijuana business, these damn religious hypocrites are the reason why there are no legal weed shops up here in the AV, I know of 4 people from different cult temples that work or worked for their churches, setting up grow houses, cultivate and sell to the dispensaries. I wonder if the irs knows this? I hate all these damn churches in the area, damn social parasites

    • That’s quit a wild tale you’re telling. Time to lay off the weed and whatever else you’re on. Chuy