Charges Filed Against Pot Bunker Suspects
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office filed charges Tuesday against a Lancaster contractor described as the central figure in a major marijuana production ring that dug high-tech underground farms in the Antelope Valley and Arizona.
Frank Gegax, who surrendered last week, was charged with cultivation, possession and maintaining a place for manufacture and distribution of marijuana.
Also charged Tuesday was Richard F. Yerger, 28, of Long Beach, owner of a house east of Lancaster under which federal drug agents and sheriff’s deputies last week found a concrete bunker housing what authorities described as the most sophisticated marijuana production operation ever encountered in Los Angeles County, capable of producing between $75 million and $150 million worth of marijuana a year.
A second plantation was discovered under a house in the community of Llano last week, and two more were raided Oct. 30 by federal drug agents in Arizona.
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