Tomales ranch raid yields lush grove of 350 marijuana plants

Marin County sheriff’s deputies who raided a Northwest Marin ranchland tract Thursday found 350 5-foot-tall marijuana plants thriving in a lush two-acre grove fed by a tributary of Walker Creek.

No suspects were arrested during the bust by about a dozen deputies on the department’s Marijuana Eradication Team.

About 100 pounds of fertilizer was removed from the site, including bags that were spilling into a stream that flows into Walker Creek, home to salmon and steelhead. No immediate assessment of environmental damage was available.

Owners of the 360-acre Cerini Ranch on the 3000 block of Tomales-Petaluma Road near Tomales alerted deputies about a possible pot grow on their property, and the plot has been monitored but no suspects identified.

“The ranchers were very cooperative,” said Lt. Doug Pittman, head of the sheriff’s marijuana team. “It was very clear they had no knowledge of the situation,” Pittman added, noting the same...

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