Illegal marijuana growers and violent crimes are taking over the small county of Siskiyou in the northernmost part of California—according to the county’s sheriff, Jeremiah LaRue.
With a population of about 44,000, the county is “inundated with illegal marijuana growers,” LaRue said on a recent episode of The Epoch Times’s California Insider.
There are about 5,000 illegal marijuana greenhouses in the county, with each containing up to 1,000 marijuana plants, according to LaRue. Each plant can yield a little over a pound of marijuana three times per year, and one pound can cost between $1,000 to $2,000.
Starting in 2015, he said, about 100 people came to Siskiyou County from Minnesota and other surrounding states and began cultivating cannabis with just 100 plants, LaRue said….