Staff report
Five adult males were arrested and 4,306 high grade indoor marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $12,900,000 were seized after the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Investigation and Narcotics Operations Units executed a search warrant Friday at a large industrial property in North Bakersfield.
Avetis Torosyan, 62, from North Hollywood; Pogos Asuanyan, 60, from Glendale; Hayk Minasyan, 32, from Panorama City; Norair Vardanian, 59, from North Hollywood; and Vague Oganasyan, 66, from Southern California were arrested and booked into the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, Central Receiving Facility jail on charges of cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana for the purpose of sales, and conspiracy to commit a crime.