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On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, several other agencies, and political leaders held a press conference to detail a 10-day operation that took down approximately 40% of the illegal marijuana growers in the Antelope Valley. It was the largest single marijuana eradication operation in the county’s history:
The Antelope Valley is an area in District 5 on the map of Los Angeles County. It is an area of high desert and unincorporated land. With a few towns and a lot of wide-open space with potato, carrot, and alfalfa farmers, it not what you conjure up in your mind what you hear “Los Angeles.”