16 Arrested After Raid On Pot Grow Near Eureka
Authorities have arrested 16 people and found great environmental damage after raiding a marijuana grow on a rural Northern California property.
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Authorities have arrested 16 people and found great environmental damage after raiding a marijuana grow on a rural Northern California property.
There was no evidence of an illegal marijuana grow near the spot where a raging wildfire started near Yosemite National Park, a federal forestry official said Wednesday.
A musician who admitted smuggling marijuana inside drums on a flight from San Francisco to Honolulu was sentenced Tuesday to three months in federal detention and three months of home confinement.
In a sweeping new policy statement prompted by pot legalization of some form in 22 states, including California, the U.S. Justice Department gave the green light to states to adopt tight regulatory schemes to oversee the medical and recreational marijuana industries burgeoning across the country.
Police seized the contents of the crate as evidence, and an investigation of the person who was shipping the crate led to the Garberville area of Humboldt County, Heiser said.
Firefighters who responded to a one-alarm house fire in unincorporated Hayward Wednesday night discovered a marijuana grow operation and more than 200 marijuana plants, a fire official said.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of making concentrated cannabis in a lab at his Bennett Valley home, a Santa Rosa police sergeant said.
Police will be cleaning up an illegal campsite and marijuana grow operation near the Pasatiempo Creek in Santa Cruz Friday.
The hope is to get rid of major growing operations, that pose a threat to the safety of the public.
Attorney General Eric Holder called for scaling back the use of harsh prison sentences for certain drug-related crimes and diversion of low-level offenders to drug treatment and community service.
Twenty jars of medical marijuana were taken in an armed robbery in San Francisco's Mission District on Thursday, according to police.
Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at the site of a marijuana grow operation at a residence in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley early Tuesday morning, according to a fire dispatcher.
Three Los Angeles men and one man from Arizona were arrested on Saturday for allegedly smuggling ashore 1,200 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $2.1 million street value, on the northern Santa Cruz coast, authorities said.
Police say a man trying to buy drugs in a San Jose park attacked two dogs with a handsaw before being bitten by a pit bull mix and then beaten by a group of men who witnessed the attack.
A man was critically injured in an explosion that occurred while he was making hash oil in the bathroom of his Santa Rosa apartment on Tuesday night, a police sergeant said.
Authorities say they've found 10,000 marijuana plants growing in a California state park.
An Operation Ceasefire arrest led to the seizure of fully automatic high-powered rifles, semi-automatic handguns, high-capacity magazines, marijuana and $7,000 in cash on Friday in Oakland, according to a California Highway Patrol officer.
Outdoor medical marijuana cultivation is no longer permitted in the city of Concord after complaints about growers. Their operations must now be moved indoors.
Agents in Madera County have eradicated nearly 15,000 marijuana plants on two grow sites in the Sierra National Forest.
Just days after the superstar rapper was robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco, 2 Chainz has been arrested at Los Angeles' LAX airport for pot, promethazine and codeine...
Firefighters discovered a pot grow when they were called to a one-alarm blaze that broke out at a home in San Francisco's Outer Richmond neighborhood Monday morning.
The legislation from Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco would have monitored the production and sale of medical marijuana through the state's alcohol enforcement department.
Firefighters battled a one-alarm fire at a marijuana grow site inside a warehouse in East Oakland Thursday morning, fire officials said.
In the West Coast marijuana-growing region known as the Emerald Triangle, scientists want to know whether rat poison spread around illegal pot plantations is killing northern spotted owls, a threatened species.
The measure is intended to restrict dispensaries that federal prosecutors say had grown out of control in California, where voters first supported legalizing cannabis to treat illness in 1996.
