Black market marijuana ‘plague’ leading to violence, San Bernardino County sheriff says

The only irony in the killing of six people this month while buying marijuana in the San Bernardino County desert, said Sheriff Shannon Dicus, is the number of people who died.

“Anytime you have six people killed, that shocks your conscience,” Dicus said Monday, Jan. 29, when he announced the arrest of five people who he said shot and killed six before burning four bodies. “But I can tell you that since we are investigating the growth of illegal marijuana, there have been a lot of dead bodies related to this throughout our region. … This is a problem and this is a problem that cannot really be talked about.”

The suspects were arrested when investigators served search warrants in Apple Valley, Adelanto and the Piñon Hills area of ​​Los Angeles County. They were taken into custody near what authorities believed to be marijuana.

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