Fresno police seized 127 pounds of marijuana, cash and weapons at a southeast Fresno home following a monthlong investigation with federal drug agents, Tim Sheehan reports in the Fresno Bee. Police searching the home Friday on the 2000 block of South Chestnut Avenue found several greenhouses encompassing nearly the entire backyard where marijuana plants recently had been harvested, the Bee reports. [...]
Sure, harvest is almost done, but Fresno police want to make sure no stoners are left unturned. That’s why the city has set up a new snitch line to report — as CBS 47 puts it — “illegal drug activity in your neighborhood.” Wait … isn’t medical cannabis legal? Just a little bit? Never mind, you can now call 559-621-WEED to [...]
Fresno County sheriff’s deputies and U.S. Drug Enforcement agents seized more than 700 marijuana plants during a raid Friday morning in the Three Rocks community of western Fresno County. Investigators found the plants while serving four federal search warrants, said Fresno County sheriff’s Lt. Rick Ko. Some of the plants seized were over 12 feet tall, and each would have produced [...]
A Butte County prosecutor Monday presented testimony in hopes of bringing a felony child abuse trial against an Oroville mother whose newborn baby and 14-month toddler were allegedly in a home with marijuana buds, hash and residues. The case of Daisy Bram, 30, stirred the ire of medical marijuana advocates, Peter Hecht reports in the Sacramento Bee. An audiotape went viral [...]
A new medical marijuana dispensary is open in Fresno, but police say they plan to move quickly to shut it down. The California Herbal Relief Center near Ashlan and Willow avenues doesn’t have a sign and relies on a doorman to allow entrance to the business, Jim Guy reports in the Fresno Bee. Once inside, workers are quick to ask visitors [...]
MODESTO – The husband and father of a former Stanislaus County sheriff’s detective appeared in court Friday for the first time since the men were arrested last month on suspicion of conspiring to forcibly enter homes and cultivating marijuana. A filed criminal complaint alleges Kari Abbey’s husband, Bennie Taylor, and her father, James Abbey, unlawfully entered rental homes owned by Abbey [...]
A third person from the central San Joaquin Valley is under arrest in Virginia for allegedly trying to smuggle marijuana into that state. David Ray Flowers, 38, of Fresno was arrested with Frederick Michael Sayles, 34, of Selma and Gabriel Hernandez Sepeda II, 38, of Fresno. Sayles is a Selma police officer and Sepeda is a former Selma police officer, according [...]
