They think this is another major garden put together by illegal's from Mexico. It has been on the radio that they have upgraded it to 50,000 plants with a value of 5,000 ea. They think its a Mexican drug cartel growing operation.

Just some more jobs Americans won't do I guess.



Officers descend on marijuana gardens (11 a.m.)
About 200 law enforcement officers from agencies across Southern Oregon and Northern California are in the Applegate this morning after raiding a half-dozen marijuana gardens, one suspected to contain as many as 10,000 plants.

Officers were chasing two armed men through brush near a garden just above Cantrall-Buckley Park but had made no arrests by mid-morning, said Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters.

Winters, who led the operation, said it is the area’s largest raid of the year.

Officers reported people in the gardens had fired shots at them and at a law enforcement helicopter flying overhead, Winters said.

The largest of the gardens, believed to contain as many as 10,000 plants 6-12 feet tall, is at Rock Gulch, also in the Cantrall-Buckley Park area.

Police say each of those plants would produce a pound or more of marijuana. The federal Drug Enforcement Agency estimates the street value of marijuana at $5,000 a pound.

A U.S. Bureau of Land Management employee discovered the first garden, and aerial searches uncovered others, said Winters. Officials believe the six gardens are connected and that other connected gardens might remain hidden, he said.

Officers will be in the area all day and expect to start pulling up plants after the gardens are secure, Winters said. The agencies have set up an operations base on Upper Applegate Road.

Officers taking part in the raid are from Jackson, Josephine, Siskiyou and Douglas county sheriff’s offices, Klamath Falls city police department, the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service, the Oregon State Police, the statewide SWAT team, the DEA and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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