WEST POINT, Calif. (AP) - Authorities seized more than 400 pounds (181 kilograms) of illegal marijuana during a raid in a Northern California grow house.
The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office discovered more than 1,400 marijuana plants in the West Point grow house, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) southeast of Sacramento, on Thursday, according to a statement.
Zhong Li, 36, of West Point, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of illegal marijuana cultivation, possession of marijuana for sale and maintaining a drug house. Li was being held on $100,000 bail; it was not immediately clear if he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
The grow house additionally had dangerous electrical modifications and structural changes, the sheriff’s office said.
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