UKIAH >> Several Laytonville locations were raided by law enforcement personnel last week as part of a two-day event which resulted in the seizure of marijuana and cash, as well as the arrests of four out-of-state residents, according to a report by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.
On Thursday at approximately 9 a.m., MCSO deputies with officers from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, began investigating several locations that were suspected of cultivating marijuana off undisclosed areas of Registered Guest Road.
Search warrants were served, and over 800 marijuana plants ranging in height from 6 to 15 feet were seized, along with a butane honey oil lab and other evidence, nearly $5,000 cash and scales and packaging materials, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Wildlife officers also found evidence of several water diversions including stream bed alterations. The streams may be the home of juvenile steelhead.
CDFW officers noted the streams were being “de-watered” as a large portion of the water flows were found to have been diverted to marijuana grow sites.
Additionally, items such as plastic piping, steel chicken wire fencing, and other trash which is said to be detrimental to wildlife, “were also located within the riparian zones of the stream and creek beds,” according to the Sheriff’s Office.
MCSO deputies arrested Jullian C. McCorkendale, 25, of Kansas City, Missouri; April R. Carey, 26, of Overland Park, Kansas; Nathaniel W. Levy, 25, of Norman, Oklahoma; and Kaleie M. Larson, 30, of Lincoln, Nebraska, on suspicion of marijuana cultivation, possession of marijuana for sales and manufacturing a controlled substance.
They were transported and booked into the Mendocino County Jail.
