Two Arrested, 18 Guns Found

On March 28 Deputy Ken Young and Deputy Paul Hinkle of the Kern County
Sheriff’s Department served a search warrant in the 3600 block of Los Padres
Drive. Deputies located an indoor marijuana growing operation with 104 marijuana
plants in various stages of maturity.

The deputies also seized 2,691.7 grams of dried marijuana, scales, packaging
materials, 18 firearms and $7,000 in cash.

Deputies from the KCSD’s Major Violators Unit estimated the street value of
the plants and the dried marijuana to be $394,585.

Richard Singleton, 46, and Janet Harrison, 47, were booked into the Kern
County Jail on charges of: marijuana sales, possession of marijuana, maintaining
a residence for sales, cultivation of marijuana and criminal conspiracy.
Sheriff’s reported the bail for each suspect is $57,500.

According to Sgt. Dave Barker, all the firearms were legal. He also said
there is a state formula for applying a value to seized controlled substances.

In the case of these seized marijuana plants, Barker said that every
seedling, no matter how small, is given the value that it would have as a
producing plant grown to maturity.

This is part of the April 06, 2007 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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