COLUSA MARIJUANA BUST SEIZES 10,000 PLANTS

The Colusa County Sheriff's Department said Thursday that it had made
its second-largest marijuana bust, seizing more than 10,000 plants.

Sheriff's deputies from Colusa and Glenn counties, working with the
federal Bureau of Land Management, discovered two cultivation sites
with a combined 10,130 pot plants on Wednesday, the Colusa department
reported.

Both fields were in the Indian Valley/Walker Ridge Recreation Area, in
the county's far west.

Each marijuana plant would have been worth about $4,000 at maturity,
though county officials said most of the seized plants were young.

The pot growers fled the sites before law enforcement officials
arrived, according to the Sheriff's Department.

Colusa County's Narcotic Enforcement Team and the District Attorney's
Office took part in the seizure, along with the state Department of
Fish and Game.