In the course of the month of August 2024, the Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace performed aerial surveillance that led to the invention of an unlawful outside marijuana cultivation website in the course of a seasonal stream that drains straight into Kelsey Creek. The positioning was positioned within the 15000 block of Bottle Rock Street in Cobb, California. Subsequent investigation revealed that the property was owned by Salvador Martinez, 34, of Cobb.
On Wednesday, September 4, 2024, detectives served a search warrant on the property, the place Martinez was instantly positioned and detained. In the course of the search, detectives found three firearms, $20,000 in money, and over 100 massive marijuana crops rising in the course of a pure drainage space that feeds straight into Kelsey Creek. The creek is residence to a small inhabitants of rainbow trout and serves as a breeding floor for the endangered Clear Lake Hitch.
Whereas executing the search warrant, two further suspects, Leonardo Martinez-Franco, 18, of Kelseyville, and Leonardo Martinez-Campos, 48, of Kelseyville, arrived on the property to are inclined to the marijuana crops. All three people had been arrested and transported to the Hill Street Correctional Facility on fees associated to felony marijuana cultivation with environmental crimes and possession of marijuana on the market.
Detectives subsequently obtained a second search warrant for the residence of Martinez-Franco and Martinez-Campos, positioned within the 5000 block of Chilly Creek Drive in Kelseyville. In the course of the search of the residence, detectives uncovered an AR-style rifle with no serial quantity (generally known as a “ghost gun”), 35 kilos of processed and packaged marijuana buds, 89 further marijuana crops, and 13 bottles of pesticides manufactured in Mexico which might be banned in america as a result of their toxicity to fish, wildlife, and people. Moreover, three bottles of extremely regulated pesticides had been found on the property.
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