Senator Wilk Applauds Law Enforcement After Four Water Thieves Arrested In Connection With Illegal Marijuana Grows
Senator Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) is applauding local law enforcement on the arrest of four individuals last month suspected of stealing water to grow marijuana illegally in Lancaster.
On April 15, deputies with the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station and officers with the Antelope Valley California Highway Patrol and the Department of Fish and Game arrested four individuals on water theft, wilk said in a statement.
“The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s lenient attitude toward criminals has encouraged illegal marijuana grows to flourish in the Antelope Valley,” Wilk said. “These criminal enterprises steal water and pollute our environment for their own profit with little worry of prosecution from the D.A.,”
Garcia Interviews With KHTS, Discusses Illegal Marijuana Growers, Stimulus Checks
Congressman Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, spoke with KHTS on air about several topics including illegal marijuana growers around the Santa Clarita Valley, the Congressional Art Competition, and stimulus checks.
Congressman Garcia discussed several important topics on air with KHTS, beginning with his recent surveillance of illegal marijuana grows in the Antelope Valley alongside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD).
“These aren’t the legal state-sanctioned operations, these aren’t even small illegal operations in folks’ backyards,” said the Congressman. “These are massive nurseries that are being put up in the middle of the Antelope Valley Desert, Acton and Aqua Dulce, and on a scale you wouldn’t believe.”