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Twentynine Palms Residents Grow Frustrated at Illegal Marijuana Operations
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Illegal marijuana operations are spreading fast in the Southern California desert, now numbering well over a thousand.
Nearby neighbors say they re being terrorized, as operators go to extremes to build and guard their grows.
After a pit bull attack in late 2019, one couple from Twentynine Palms is wondering why local leaders won’t take the one step that could cut off the grower’s life line. There s a danger in the desert that many are not aware of. Carolyn Johnson investigates for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on June 11, 2021.
“I knew there was a weed farm, a marijuna farm, up the road, and I knew they had pit bulls, but I didn t think much of it,” Amy Tessier said. “As I ran by, one of the pit bulls came charging out from behind the fence and just lunged and bit my legs. It was a really traumatic experience.”
Illegal pot invades California s deserts, bringing violence, fear and ecological destruction
Jaclyn Cosgrove and Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times
July 15, 2021
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Marijuana plants at Harboside Farms in Salinas, Calif., on Thursday, July 20, 2017.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle
LOS ANGELES Before his corpse was dumped in a shallow grave 50 miles north of Los Angeles, Mauricio Ismael Gonzalez-Ramirez was held prisoner at one of the hundreds of black-market pot farms that have exploded across California’s high desert in the last several years, authorities say.
He worked in what has become California’s newest illegal marijuana haven: the Mojave Desert. A world away from the lush forest groves of the “Emerald Triangle” of Northern California, this hot, dry, unforgiving climate has attracted more than a thousand marijuana plantations that fill the arid expanse between the Antelope Valley and the Colorado River.