cannabisnews.com: Forest Service Uproots Pot Farm! Forest Service Uproots Pot Farm! Posted by FoM on August 26, 1999 at 10:55:13 PT By Bart Weitzel, Valley Press Staff Writer Source: Antelope Valley Press PALMDALE - U.S. Forest Service Agents and narcotics detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spent Monday and Tuesday uprooting approximately 4,000 marijuana plants found in the Angeles National Forest. During a routine aerial check of the area on Aug. 18, Forest Service pilots discovered the contraband flora off of the Angeles Forest Highway, about 10 miles south of Palmdale. Deputies and officers from the multi-jurisdictional Marijuana Eradication Team spent Monday and Tuesday combing through the forest and uprooting the plants.The Forest Service and MET team conduct helicopter checks on a periodic basis and say they regularly find hidden marijuana farms."We normally - during the course of the summer - will go out looking for it and we probably find about 10 (farms) per year," said Rita Wears, special agent with the U.S. Forest Service. "They're not usually this big."This week's haul wasn't the biggest agencies have uncovered in recent years, but it wasn't the smallest, either.MET team members recalled finding one farm of about 10,000 plants in 1993 or 1994. Wears said the clandestine farm discovered last week covered about 25 acres of federal land.As of Wednesday, officials had uprooted about 4,000 plants. Wears estimated a street value of about $2.4 million for that much marijuana.The plants were hauled out of the area in helicopters and loaded on trucks. They will be taken to a remote place in the forest and burned.Narcotics deputies are still seeking the identities of the illegal farmer or farmers.Story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press August 26, 1999 Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #1 posted by decomposer on October 15, 2004 at 08:16:18 PT: seeking information Hello All! Just last night i reg. as a member so that i might be able to post a question and hopefully find someone who can/is willing to help me...i am seeking information about a survaillence of a pot plantation that was being done back in August 1995 in the Angeles National Forest near the Upper Shake Campgrounds (this would be in S. California around the Lake Elizabeth area. Forestry Special agents Perry and Alt are two noames i know for sure. The reason i am asking is to obtain the real truth in and around their investigation, do to the fact a very dear friend of mine has been rotting in prison for nearly 10 years after bing railroaded for being involved in a murder that someone else committed. The guilty individual dumped the partial remains of his victim near there...originaly special agent Alt wrote in his notes he never saw who, what when dumped the body. Then at the prelim trial said the same thing but changed his testimony at the actual trial. There are countless other examples of this case where by false accounts, inafective council etc. that an innocent man sits in the California Mens Prison for life without the poss. of parole. I am desperatly trying to change that...PLEASE if anyone has any information that may help please contact me via email. Thank you in advance, Shelly [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: