Crime & Safety
Thousands of Marijuana Plants Found on Hecker Pass
Sheriff's deputies uproot pot garden, find shotgun rounds and pesticides in the illegal garden.
A drug cartel marijuana grow worth on Hecker Pass about $5 million got the axe Wednesday when Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputies and state drug agents raided it, authorities reported.
The grow, on the 1000 block of Hecker Pass Road, was terraced across an acre and fenced off with mesh and netting, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Deputies found more than 5,000 plants in the garden. There also was a camp with shotgun rounds, rat poison, pesticides and other debris, the Sheriff's Office reported.
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No one was in the garden, but deputies said the grow "was consistent with the work of a drug trafficking organization."
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