SAN FRANCISCO – A accepted California outdoors biographer was chargeless on bond afterwards authorities said Friday they begin a ample marijuana growing operation in his barn in the boondocks of Weed.
Deputies served a chase accreditation on 55-year-old Tom Stienstra's home aftermost anniversary and bedeviled 60 plants and added than 11 pounds of candy marijuana, the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Appointment said.
Stienstra was arrested for analysis of possessing marijuana for auction and appear March 26 on $75,000 bail. His wife and two added men were additionally arrested.
Prosecutors accept beatific the case aback to the sheriff's appointment for added analysis and accept not filed any charges, Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus said.
Messages larboard for Stienstra and his advocate Eric Bergstrom were not anon returned.
Stienstra writes for the San Francisco Chronicle and appears consistently on Northern California radio and television stations.
He is the columnist of added than 20 guidebooks that calm accept awash added than a actor copies and was alert called biographer of the year by the Outdoor Writers Association of America, according to the adventures on his Web site.
Scales, packaging actual and added accouterments were confiscated from Stienstra's barn and home, sheriff's backer Susan Gravenkamp said.
Deputies begin medical marijuana recommendations for Stienstra, his wife and her 18-year-old son, who was not arrested, Gravenkamp said.
Until recently, California law bound medical marijuana users to possessing six complete or 12 adolescent plants, and 8 ounces of candy broiled marijuana unless abandoned counties set college limits.
The accompaniment Supreme Court addled bottomward those banned in January, sending police, prosecutors and users into a accompaniment of abashing over how abundant marijuana will not calculation as too much.
Chronicle editor-in-chief Ward Bushee said the bi-weekly knew little about the allegations adjoin Stienstra and hoped the case was bound quickly. In the meantime, the Chronicle would abide to broadcast his columns, Bushee said.
While not as able-bodied accepted as some added locales, Siskiyou County forth the Oregon bound is a above marijuana-growing hub in the state, with hundreds of bags of plants bedeviled there aftermost year alone, according to the sheriff's office.
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