Crime & Safety
Inside the South City Marijuana Warehouse
"It was fully committed to an indoor grow operation," said Commander Marc K. Alcantara.
On Monday morning, authorities from the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force and the South San Francisco, Daly City and San Francisco Police Departments as part of nine-month investigation into an alleged drug trafficking organization.
Three of the indoor grow houses were in residential homes in Daly City, but the one South San Francisco location was a full-fledged warehouse on Wattis Way.
“This is a warehouse, and it was fully committed to an indoor grow operation,” said Commander Marc K. Alcantara of the county Narcotics Task Force. “We seized the marijuana and all equipment associated with marijuana growing.”
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That amounted 963 plants and 25 pounds of processed marijuana, according to Alcantara. Police seized 1,400 plants and 55 pounds of marijuana from all four of the houses combined.
The raid started at 7 a.m. on Monday morning, and police approached the South San Francisco warehouse sometime between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. No one was there, but police found an organized space with separate areas devoted to growing, clones, drying and packaging, Alcantara said.
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The evidence is being kept in the San Mateo Sherriff Property Division. Eight suspects who were arrested will be arraigned at the San Mateo County Northern Superior Court at 1:30 p.m. today.
Bay City News contributed to this report.
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