Agents and rangers from the WASO Investigate Services Branch and the park, working with the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office SWAT and marijuana eradication teams, DEA, state officers, and the California National Guard, raided a major drug plantation run by a Mexican drug trafficking organization on Crystal Creek on September 10th and seized 13,857 marijuana plants. The raid was part of a week-long operation on NPS, USFS and private lands in which a total of 29,686 plants were destroyed. The Crystal Creek site was less than a mile from the complex raided on August 29th. This plantation sprawled over more than two acres, which sustained significant environmental damage. An investigation into this operation is continuing.
