‘It looked like they planned to be there a long time….’

By Patric Hedlund — Bright green marijuana leaves winked up through the mid-morning sun on Thursday, July 16 as the pilot flying a Kern County Sheriff’s helicopter topped the north slope of Frazier Mountain. From the sky, at 10:25 a.m., irrigated pot plants appeared nearly…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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A narcotics team (faces obscured) loaded 3,394 plants plus trimmed buds and seedlings into a trailer on July 16. A semiautomatic shotgun and a loaded pistol were confiscated from the grow’s headquarters, but it was the ReadyKern robocall that had people in Frazier Park and Lebec buzzing.

These guns were confiscated from the house on the 400 block of La Maida Circle on Thursday, July 16 during a raid on a marijuana farm that was set up for multiple harvests, with a ‘honey oil’ processing facility being constructed—indicating a plan for a longterm operation in the area. The pistol (below) had to be taken apart to remove a bullet that was in the chamber, ready to be fired.

Above, below: Both mature and seedling plants were found.

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This is part of the July 24, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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