{"id":7764,"date":"2017-09-29T02:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2804863&amp;preview_id=2804863"},"modified":"2017-09-29T02:42:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:42:56","slug":"2700-plants-seized-in-raid-on-illegal-colorado-marijuana-farm-on-forest-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/2700-plants-seized-in-raid-on-illegal-colorado-marijuana-farm-on-forest-land\/","title":{"rendered":"2,700 plants seized in raid on illegal Colorado marijuana farm on forest land"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/2700-plants-seized-in-raid-on-illegal-colorado-marijuana-farm-on-forest-land\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Sep 28, 2017, 7:55 pm \u2022 Updated: Sep 28, 2017, 8:20 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Scott Condon<\/strong>, <em> The Aspen Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the third time in five years, federal agencies have raided an illegal marijuana growing operation in the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District of the White River National Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials from multiple agencies began efforts Thursday to eradicate a pot patch in the Crystal Valley approximately 16 miles south of Carbondale, in the Redstone area.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-acre site had 2,700 plants as well as chemicals to deter deer, fertilizer, irrigation pipe, camping gear, trash and tarps, the forest supervisor\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the two prior raids, an arrest was made in Thursday\u2019s operation, which involved Forest Service law enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Land Management after \u201csignificant coordination over the past several months,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more of this story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/officials-raid-illegal-pot-grow-in-crystal-valley-between-redstone-and-marble\/\">AspenTimes.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/officials-raid-illegal-pot-grow-in-crystal-valley-between-redstone-and-marble\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">This story was first published on .com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Law enforcement officials from multiple agencies raided an illegal Colorado marijuana farm set up on national forest land in the Redstone area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7339,6811,851,6812,233,6813,77,6814,6933,5667,9,5019,1,3,61,7340,1736],"tags":[7341,6816,3424,6817,2811,6818,2655,6819,6934,5673,5022,7342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}