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Residents of a quiet neighborhood were shocked when they woke up to go to work to find Drug Enforcement Agents and the High Desert S.M.A.S.H. team Tuesday morning.
The officials seized approximately $130,000 of marijuana from an indoor grow as part of a larger investigation originating in San Diego, officials said.
At about 6 a.m., San Diego DEA officials with assistance from the S.M.A.S.H gang team served a state search warrant on a home in the 9000 block of Torrance Avenue, according to Detective Danny Rosa of the San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department.
Eight other warrants were simultaneously served in the San Diego area, according to San Diego DEA Field Office spokesman Mark Pothier.
Agents were able to confiscate 75 plants from the two-room growing operation in Hesperia, officials announced.
This was a pretty sophisticated indoor growing set up, said Rosa, adding that officials recovered about $10,000 in growing equipment from the home.
The owner of the home, Arthur Newsome, who has ties to San Diego, was arrested for cultivation of marijuana and was already facing state charges for cocaine distribution, according to Pothier.
Neighbors stood and watched as agents brought out black trash bags full of marijuana and boxes of growing equipment.
The large-scale investigation is still ongoing.
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The officials seized approximately $130,000 of marijuana from an indoor grow as part of a larger investigation originating in San Diego, officials said.
At about 6 a.m., San Diego DEA officials with assistance from the S.M.A.S.H gang team served a state search warrant on a home in the 9000 block of Torrance Avenue, according to Detective Danny Rosa of the San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department.
Eight other warrants were simultaneously served in the San Diego area, according to San Diego DEA Field Office spokesman Mark Pothier.
Agents were able to confiscate 75 plants from the two-room growing operation in Hesperia, officials announced.
This was a pretty sophisticated indoor growing set up, said Rosa, adding that officials recovered about $10,000 in growing equipment from the home.
The owner of the home, Arthur Newsome, who has ties to San Diego, was arrested for cultivation of marijuana and was already facing state charges for cocaine distribution, according to Pothier.
Neighbors stood and watched as agents brought out black trash bags full of marijuana and boxes of growing equipment.
The large-scale investigation is still ongoing.
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