Pot Farm Found in O’Neill Park
From a Times Staff Writer
Sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday said they confiscated about 3,500 mature marijuana plants worth roughly $2.5 million from a well-irrigated plot in O’Neill Regional Park.
The plants were spotted from a sheriff’s helicopter on patrol about 3 p.m. near Sunrise street in Mission Viejo, said Lt. Hans Strand of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
He said authorities did not know whether the find was related to the 3,800 unattended marijuana plants found this month in Silverado Canyon.
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