Deputies executing a search warrant in the Central California city of Merced on Wednesday found about 60 suspected The victims arrived several days earlier, smuggled across the southern border"with the promise that they would have a good-paying job and a place to stay," the Merced County Sheriff's Office reported in a Facebook post.
Deputies found hundreds of pounds of finished marijuana product at the facility in Merced, California. July 26, 2023. "The human trafficking aspect of this is so blatant, it's heart-wrenching," Merced County Sheriff Vernon Warnke said in a Deputies found"hundreds of pounds of finished marijuana product," with Warnke describing it as one of"the largest processing areas we've ever encountered.