Utah Pot Busts Highlight Mexican Cartels in U.S.

(C. Boyce photo: a 2008 pot bust just up the canton from my home.)

Iron County, Utah reports that tens of thousands of pot plants have been destroyed so far this year at a half dozen sites within the County’s borders. Iron County Sheriff Gower said,

“Evidence collected would lead us to believe that they are all drug trafficking organizations – organized crime.”

In other words, cartels.

Coincidentally, cops busted a huge marijuana farm in Iron County, Michigan this week, too.  Officials there believe “suspects from out of the country” were involved, along with locals, and reference another pot bust in Wisconsin earlier in the year, which they believe was run by the same group.

Polizeros has chronicled the rise of violence in Mexico and its spillover into the border states of Arizona and Texas.  It should be clear now that the cartels have already moved into mainstream America.  How long before they start to try to protect their investments with more than camouflage?