SIEZED POT PLANTS STOLEN AT NIGHT

Bundles containing 1,200 marijuana plants cut down by narcotics agents
hours earlier were stolen, possibly by the illicit growers, from a
site in the Mount Tamalpais watershed in the middle of the night,
water district officials said.

Narcotics agents valued the stolen haul, part of 20,000 plants
discovered at several Marin County pot gardens earlier in the week, at
roughly $3 million.

The stolen plants had been cut, bundled and were ready to be taken out
from the remote location by helicopter.

The bust sites and plants were being guarded by law enforcement
overnight, but because individual gardens were scattered over several
remote locations, some areas went unattended, officials said.