On 7-10-2014 Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office with the CHP seized over 3,700 marijuana plants in Copperopolis and arrested a Stockton man by the name of Edgar Lopez.
Edgar Lopez was booked on charges of illegal cultivation of marijuana bail $20,000.
The exact location of the illegal grow is being withheld at this time due to the ongoing investigation.
According to the SO PIO a small portion of the CAMP grant funding was utilized for this eradication, while the remaining expense fell within the current budget.