A Calaveras Narcotics Enforcement marijuana eradication operation was conducted earlier this week at the end of Little John Road on private property in the hills along Gopher Ridge netting 4,733 marijuana plants.
Sheriff Dept eradication operations this year total nine; 1 operation on public land BLM and the remaining 8 on private property . The years total plant count is 46,174, with 3 arrests inside the grows and 3 recovered guns. The combined estimated total value of the plants is 4.6 million.
Due to financial limitations of the CAMP program - Campaign Against Marijuana Planting from the Department of Justice and the Attorney General's Office- the Sheriff Dept has handled the majority of the eradication operations on their own.
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C. Maness
