Some military units taking part in a drill on the Central Coast stumbled across a football field sized marijuana farm in the Los Padres National Forest.
The elaborate growing operation was in the mountains north of San Luis Obispo, near TV Tower Road.
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s detectives say there were 7400 plants, plus irrigation and camping gear. The detectives say they found evidence the operation was linked to a Mexican drug cartel. The plants were destroyed.