PINE MOUNTAIN (Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, 2:39 p.m.) The following is a dispatch from Kern County Sheriff’s Office. Additional details will be reported when they become available.

On Friday, Sept. 4 at about 7 a.m., deputies from the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Major Violators Unit with assistance of officers from the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (C.A.M.P.), located a marijuana grow on U. S. Forest land in the area of Cerro Noroeste Road west of Mount Pinos.

A helicopter was utilized to transport the officers into the area due to the rough terrain. No suspects were located during the operation. Officers located a camp site within the grow containing materials used to maintain the marijuana.

This is part of the September 04, 2009 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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