Man arrested near Covelo at nearly 10,000-plant illegal cannabis grow

Two rifles, one modern black assault rifle with accessories and one older wooden-stocked rifle, rest on the metallic bed of a pickup truck. — The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office seized these two firearms while serving a search warrant at an illegal grow site in Mendocino County, Calif., in July 2026. This site site had nearly 10,000 marijuana plants as well as firearms, water diversions and illegal pesticides including Carbofuran. (Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office via Bay City News)

Sheriff’s deputies serving a search warrant at an illegal cannabis grow this week near Covelo arrested one armed man and found nearly 10,000 marijuana plants and the banned pesticide carbofuran, while a second armed man fled with what the sheriff described as a modified assault rifle, Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall said.

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