Man dies in botched Stanislaus County pot theft

A botched home invasion robbery in Hickman that ended with one man dead was motivated by the belief that there was a large quantity of marijuana on the property, Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said Monday. “Bottom line, this is a drug rip-off gone bad,” Christianson said. “This has nothing to do with any random acts of violence.” He said five men arrested Friday admitted they were attempting to take what they thought was 200 pounds of marijuana from the house, Erin Tracy reports in the Modesto Bee. At some point during the robbery attempt, [...]

 

A federal grand jury in Sacramento indicted 10 people in four separate cases of marijuana growth operations on public land, according to a Thursday news release by United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner’s office. Authorities said the defendants operated large marijuana grows in three different counties. In all, agents found more than 36,000 plants being cultivated by the defendants, Chelsea Phua reports in Sacto 9-1-1. More than 3,000 marijuana plants, each about 5 feet tall, were found on Bureau of Land Management lands south of Cache Creek in Yolo County in early August. Agents raided [...]

 
Latest Nevada County bust tied to Mexican growers

Five men suspected of tending an illegal marijuana plantation bolted from their rustic campsite early Thursday, surprised by Nevada County narcotics agents, and sparked a wild chase through heavy brush and rugged terrain. One of the men was arrested after he was tackled by a ranger from the U.S. Forest Service who assisted in the raid, Liz Kellar of The Union in Grass Valley reports. Agents seized nearly 1,800 plants, the Sheriff’s Office reported. The 16 team members got to the plantation off Relief Hill Road, about 3 miles west of Washington in western Nevada [...]

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