SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – The team of four county Sheriff’s deputies and a sergeant that busted dozens of illegal pot operations and confiscated tens of millions of dollars’ worth of marijuana, beginning in 2018, has been broken up.
The move was made official on Tuesday at a county Board of Supervisors hearing on the budget for the coming fiscal year.
Cannabis tax revenues have dropped from a high of $15.7 million in 2020-21 to $5.4 million in 2024-25…