A Mountain Gate man going through a “bad trip” on methamphetamine imagined someone was sneaking onto his marijuana grow, so he started shooting early this morning in the same home where his two young children were, sheriff’s investigators allege. Brian Anthony Walker, 33, didn’t hurt anyone when he began firing about 5:25 a.m., though his family and the two men who were camped outside guarding the grow were extremely fortunate they weren’t shot, Shasta County sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Grashoff said. The shooting, which led to a standoff with the Shasta County Sheriff’s SWAT Team that [...]
Kern County Superior Court Judge David Lampe played his cards close to the vest Friday as lawyers for medical marijuana collectives and the county of Kern tried to sway him to their side of the debate over the county’s 12-plant limit on medical pot cultivation. He didn’t issue a tentative ruling or speak about which way he planned to rule, James Burger reports in the Bakersfield Californian. Lampe heard arguments from Chief Deputy County Counsel Mark Nations and medical marijuana collective attorney Phil Ganong and told them his ruling on a preliminary injunction would be [...]
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A member of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and a sheriff’s sergeant testified Thursday in a Santa Rosa courtroom on behalf of two employees of a Ukiah medical marijuana cooperative charged with transporting pot through Sonoma County. Supervisor John McCowen and Sgt. Randy Johnson testified in the preliminary hearing for Daniel Harwood, 33, of Willits and Timothy Tangney, 29, of Lucerne. The employees of Northstone Organics were stopped twice in two days on Highway 101 near Cloverdale while delivering marijuana to people in the Bay Area. About three pounds of marijuana was seized and [...]
Three Sacramento County men arrived by boat at night to plant and tend hundreds of marijuana plants found Wednesday in a raid in the Sutter National Wildlife Refuge in south Sutter County, a drug enforcement official said. Arrested after the predawn raid were Dong Hon Chong, 35, Sam Chong, 39, and Richard Fong, 33, said Mike Hudson, commander of the Yuba-Sutter Narcotic and Gang Enforcement Team, or NET-5. Dong Chong was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on three felony charges, Rob Young reports in the Appeal-Democrat. Bail was set at $10,000. Incarceration information about [...]
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors will consider a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries that would last until burgeoning regulations for the dispensaries are in place, Tiffany Revelle reports in the Ukiah Daily Journal. The item wasn’t on the board’s agenda, but 1st District Supervisor Carre Brown suggested putting the discussion on the board’s Sept. 20 meeting agenda after 18 people voiced strong opposition to a dispensary proposed in downtown Boonville. “It’s a sacrilege to even consider having a dispensary in our community, and I think it’s a disgrace,” Boonville resident Donna Reily said, noting [...]
A Guatemalan man is scheduled to take the stand in Humboldt County Superior Court today to testify against the man who allegedly shot him in the face and back last year after a dispute at a marijuana grow operation near Kneeland. Mikal Xylon Wilde, 29, of Eureka, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder and cultivation and possession of marijuana for sale. A preliminary hearing this week will culminate with a judge determining whether there is enough evidence to hold Wilde to stand trial, Thadeus Greenson reports in the Eureka Times-Standard. Update: [...]
Bolstered by the most recent court ruling in Orange County regarding medical marijuana, the Wheatland City Council voted Tuesday to extend a temporary ban on dispensaries. The year-long extension of two urgency interim ordinances will continue to prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries from being located within Wheatland city limits, Nancy Pasternack reports in the Appeal-Democrat. It would also allow the city staff and the council to further evaluate potential future permitting of dispensary operators, “and to continue to monitor and evaluate evolving legal developments concerning this issue,” according to the city’s public hearing notice posted Sept. [...]
Marijuana dispensaries could sprout at up to three Palo Alto locations, if the City Council or voters were to approve an ordinance legalizing medical marijuana within city limits. A citizens group has gathered more than enough signatures to put the issue on the city ballot, City Clerk Donna Grider said. The success of the signature drive means the council must either adopt the proposed ordinance or bring it to the voters some time next year, Gennady Sheyner reports in the Palo Alto Weekly. Initiative supporters argue in the petition that legalizing and taxing marijuana dispensaries [...]
James Benno has a healthy crop of marijuana plants growing in his south Redding backyard. He has 36 plants, ranging from 9 to 14 feet tall and covering 960 square feet of his yard. They are enclosed within a 6-foot-tall chain-link fence that is topped with three strands of barbed wire. Benno said he plans to begin harvesting the plants sometime next month. But the city of Redding has given him until next Friday to reduce the size of the plants and his garden, Damon Arthur reports in the Record Searchlight. City of Redding officials [...]
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