After making millions a month, self-proclaimed, “weed queen” found herself surrounded by police recently.
Per CBS Los Angeles
Officials say the drug kingpin behind the grow was actually a drug queen — and a mother from a ritzy Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
The operation in San Bernardino had more than 24,000 plants, which were confiscated Wednesday by San Bernardino police and the federal officials.
The huge operation is normally associated with a druglord, but this stash belonged to 43-year-old mom Stephanie Smith of Pacific Palisades, police said.
Smith was making millions of dollars per month running the operation, sources said.
Police said they got a tip months ago that the pot grow, located 80 miles west of San Bernardino,
was in operation inside an empty building.
The investigation revealed a major operation with employees, guards, gates and a missing building permit.
Police said Smith was not authorized to grow marijuana on this scale.
A red “Unsafe” sign has since been placed on the building.
Smith was reportedly questioned Tuesday, but was not arrested. It is unclear whether she will be arrested.
If charges are filed, she faces a misdemeanor, jail time and a fine at the state level.
Police did say all of the pot will go up in smoke.
Detectives were immediately suspicious that the supposedly empty building had an electric bill of $67,000.
Now, the thing to pay attention to here is that Smith was not arrested. She was questioned. That in itself is odd due to the fact you were running an illegal operation that made a lot of money. Either she’s naming names, or she’s a very “privileged” person.
