This Week in Orland History: The Great Capay Pot Bust of 1983
The phrase “high as an elephant’s eye” takes on a new meaning in this installment of This Week in Orland History, our regular look back at the region’s past.
Glenn County Sheriff’s Detective Russ Woods with a truckload of marijuana plants from the 1983 Capay raid, where deputies seized an estimated 60,000 plants worth $48 million in a corn field.
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