The Signal
By. Kev Kurdoghlian

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced 23 arrests Tuesday as part of an illegal marijuana grow bust in the Antelope Valley that involved 400 personnel from several local, state and federal agencies.

“It’s been quite an auspicious day today,” Villanueva said during a news conference in Lancaster. “We started this process months back when we were starting to get a lot of complaints from the (high desert) residents … (of) how these illegal marijuana grows (were) impacting life here.”