Delbar said a Realtor and two men came to her farming community and offered residents $400,000 to $500,000 cash upfront to lease property for one year, promising $1 million or more at the end of the 12 months.https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/ne...ry/8960873002/A decade ago, 20 acres with a house and barn would have sold for $200,000 or less. Now, it can fetch more than $1 million.
"Almost everybody that grows dope up here is from San Jose," Kendall said. "That’s a hub," where some Mexican cartels position their regional supervisors.
After doing flyovers, sheriff's investigators estimate there are a million pot plants on the valley floor, an area about seven by eight miles. That's less than 2% of the county's landmass.
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