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As the cartel’s main cannabis distributor in California, Escobedo earned the nickname “El Mago” — The Magician — for his ability to make bales of it vanish by the ton.

Additionally, outdoor decorations included pumpkins and gourds, hay bales and string lights.

In recent years, one of the farm’s employees, Juan Ramirez, has crafted giant minions out of hay bales that are visible from the freeway.

In other areas, thousands of hay bales have been placed in rows on the lakebed to help control dust.

It said two people were arrested and 12 bales of drugs were seized following the operation 90 nautical miles north of the "narco-sub".