Thread: They came for a better life...

and to screw up American lives at the same time.

3 men arrested as giant pot farm is uprooted
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
July 12, 2007

A massive marijuana garden — 61,000 plants worth nearly $200 million — was discovered in a remote area along the border of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

Three illegal immigrants were arrested and plants up to 8 feet tall were uprooted after discovery of the farm east of Twitchell Reservoir near California Highway 166, said Sgt. Erik Raney of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department.

Deputies flying a routine patrol by helicopter noticed the marijuana farm Friday, and authorities from both counties moved in two days later for the bust, Raney said.

61,000 plants worth nearly $200 million

...that's better.

... and the beat goes on ....

Giant Marijuana Farm Found 200 Yards From DEA Office
Drug agents found nearly 300 plants along the Trinity River

DALLAS -- Drug Enforcement Administration officials discovered a large number of marijuana plants growing in a wooded area near the Trinity River in Dallas Thursday afternoon.

The secret pot farm was practically right under their noses. In fact, if you could walk in a straight line from the riverbank through the marshy underbrush and tangled wilderness, you'd walk just 200 yards before you hit the DEA's office building.

Right now, agents have no idea who planted and carefully tended to the elaborate farm, it appears whoever it was spent a lot of time and money on the project.

From the air, four agents could be seen pulling up huge plants -- some up to four or five feet tall -- and confiscated them. Officials say they found more than 300 plants, worth at least $300,000 on the street.

Isn't it strange that some LE or news helicopters never saw this?