FEDS WANT YUBA FOOTHILLS LAND FORFEITED

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento is seeking forfeiture of 230
acres near Camptonville in eastern Yuba County where marijuana and
methamphetamine were found.

The complaint for forfeiture of the property at 15438 Old Toll Road
was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento.

The property, bordered on three sides by U.S. Forest Service land, is
owned by Gregory Scott McClellan, who was the subject of a drug
trafficking investigation by the federal Drug Enforcement
Administration in early 2010, according to the complaint.

On Sept. 16, DEA agents executed a search warrant at the property and
found hashish and 66 marijuana plants that McClellan admitted were
his. He also admitted manufacturing hashish, the complaint said.

McClellan told officers he was using a workshop near his house for a
marijuana cloning operation.

More marijuana plants were found at three other residences on the
property, including one occupied by McClellan's daughter, Audrey
McClellan, who admitted plants found there were hers, the complaint said.

Gregory McClellan has owned the property since 1994. In 1995, a
methamphetamine laboratory and a large amount of the drug were found
in a cargo container on the property and seized.

"McClellan pleaded ignorance and no arrests were made," Assistant
U.S. Attorney Kelli L. Taylor wrote in the complaint.

Taylor wrote that her office is not requesting an arrest warrant or
the immediate seizure of the property, just permission to post the
property with a notice that it's a defendant in the forfeiture
action. The posting makes the property subject to forfeiture, she wrote.