It didn’t take long for the Corning Planning Commission to recommend an ordinance to the City Council that would ban medical marijuana dispensaries. The commission came to the unanimous decision during Tuesday’s public hearing (May 16) following only a few minutes of discussion, Julie R. Johnson reports in the Corning Observer. Planning Director John Stoufer told the commission the city had until July 6 to have an ordinance in place if it planned on doing so before its interim ordinance banning dispensaries sunsets on Aug. 6. “Once an ordinance is adopted by the City Council [...]
Tehama County narcotic task force agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary operated by a Corning City Council candidate at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Search warrants were served at Tehama Herbal Collective, 1317 Solano St., and at Ken Prather’s home on the 700 block of Walnut Street, the Tehama Interagency Drug Enforcement task force reported. A third warrant was served at a house on the 17000 block of Elder Creek Circle, Julie R. Johnson reports in the Corning Observer, a property TIDE officials said was owned by Prather in Rancho Tehama. Chico Enterprise-Record coverage Department of Justice [...]
Arrests, drugs, firearms and U.S. currency has connected Corning to a large-scale marijuana cultivation and distribution organization that spans the state from Los Angeles to Tehama County. The local connection was first revealed on Aug. 27 in Colusa County when the California Highway Patrol made a traffic stop on Jesus Pablo Lara, 47, who had left a Donnovan Avenue residence in Corning about an hour earlier. During a search of the van, law enforcement reported locating 209 pounds of processed marijuana, said California Highway Patrol Officer Heath Helman, supervisor of the North State Marijuana Investigation [...]
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