Last night, the Morongo Basin Municipal Advisory Council met in a lively virtual meeting that focused almost entirely on the problem of illegal marijuana grows, mostly in the Landers and Desert Heights areas. Reporter Heather Clisby was there …
The Morongo Basin Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) gathered last night via Zoom for a nearly two-hour meeting where the main topic was illegal pot farms.
Captain Luke Niles from the Morongo Basin Sheriff station explained the sheriff’s effort and how it runs parallel to the county’s Narcotics Division. Local sheriffs have served 34 search warrants since the start of the year and the Narcotics Division has served 30. Since March 17, the sheriffs have spent 1,200 man hours serving these warrants and have seized 33,000 pot plants.