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‘Plague’ of black market marijuana resulting in violence, San Bernardino County sheriff says
The only anomaly in this month’s slayings of six people during a marijuana deal gone wrong in the San Bernardino County desert, Sheriff Shannon Dicus said, was the number of people killed.
“Anytime you have six people who are murdered, that’s shocking to your conscience,” Dicus said Monday, Jan. 29, in announcing the arrests of five people who he said gunned down the six before setting four bodies ablaze. “But I can tell you that since we’ve been investigating illegal marijuana grows, there have been a number of body dumps related to this across our county. … This is a problem and this is a problem that is not really being talked about.”
The suspects were arrested as investigators served search warrants in Apple Valley, Adelanto and a portion of Piñon Hills that is in Los Angeles County. They were taken into custody at a compound close to what authorities believe was going to be a marijuana grow.