860 POT PLANTS FOUND AT HOUSE, DEA SAYS.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Staff Writer A 48-year-old Canoga Park chemist and a Seal Beach Seal Beach, city (1990 pop. 25,098), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; inc. 1915. It is a beach city with an active art colony. Transportation equipment and concrete are among the city's manufactures. U.S. naval stations are nearby. woman have been arrested on suspicion of cultivating 860 marijuana plants worth nearly $500,000, police said Wednesday. Federal agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was established in 1973 by President richard m. nixon as part of the Justice Department, thus uniting a number of federal drug agencies that had often worked at cross-purposes. seized the plants, 150 pounds of packaged marijuana and three pounds of rock and powder cocaine from the home in the 7400 block of Jordan Avenue Tuesday night, said Sharon Carter, a DEA DEA - Data Encryption Algorithm spokeswoman. The marijuana plant seizure is one of the largest in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. since medical marijuana advocate Todd McCormick was arrested last year for growing more than 4,000 pot plants in a rented Bel-Air mansion. The identities of both suspects in the Canoga Park case were not released because the investigation is ongoing, Carter said. The chemist is facing his third strike for narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. arrests, she said. ``This is a considerable amount of dope. . . . There's no way he was using 800-plus plants for his personal use,'' Carter said. DEA agents made the arrests in a joint investigation with the Huntington Park Huntington Park, city (1990 pop. 56,065), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential and industrial suburb of Los Angeles; founded 1856, inc. 1906. Its varied manufactures include metal, glass and rubber products and industrial equipment. Police Department, Carter said. Authorities said the operation was sophisticated and time-consuming.``It's like a child to them. They keep logs on when to feed them. They take a lot of pride in their product.'' The marijuana was seized at 8:30 p.m. from a bedroom and the garage, DEA agents said. In a separate smaller operation, narcotics detectives seized 35 marijuana plants in various stages at a home in the 6900 block of Wilbur Avenue in Reseda on Tuesday. |
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