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Football Field Sized Marijuana Growing Operation Found On Central Coast

(SLOCSO Photo)
Football field sized marijuana operation found in San Luis Obispo County

Some military units taking part in a drill on the Central Coast stumbled across a football field sized marijuana farm in the Los Padres National Forest.

The elaborate growing operation was in the mountains north of San Luis Obispo, near TV Tower Road.

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s detectives say there were 7400 plants, plus irrigation and camping gear. The detectives say they found evidence the operation was linked to a Mexican drug cartel. The plants were destroyed.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.