One of four pot bust in Calaveras County last week
Calaveras County, CA – Just over 5,000 marijuana plants and 6 pounds of processed pot estimated at more than $3.5 million was seized in four busts in three Calaveras County communities, and one included child cruelty charges.
The raids happened over two days, Thursday and Friday (May 13 & 14), of last week. The first one conducted by the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Unit was in the 3000 block of Tree Lane in Wilseyville. An estimated $539,000 worth of marijuana was found at the illegal grow. In all, deputies seized 765 pot plants and 6 pounds of processed marijuana with no suspects at the site.
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Mountain Ranch, CA Two people suffering from burns were flown from the scene of a BBQ mishap in the Mountain Ranch area of Calaveras County on Wednesday around 6 p.m.
Calaveras County Sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt. Greg Stark tells Clarke Broadcasting that a man and a woman were burned while trying to light a barbecue. It is unclear whether the flames flared up or if there was some type of explosion. A female victim had critical burns to her face and a male had second-degree burns to his hands. The incident happened at a residence on Old Immigrant Road West near Railroad Flat Road. There are no further details at this time.
Suspect s wife recalls moments before Calaveras deputy shot, husband killed Share Updated: 9:44 PM PDT May 10, 2021 Share Updated: 9:44 PM PDT May 10, 2021
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Show Transcript This is this is actually one that I sent to him when he was in prison. Melissa livia remembering the events that led to her husband Mark, he did this pointing a gun at her at the Sierra Inn motel in SAn Andreas and put us back of my neck, put out like a cigarette and then he ripped me by my hair and it stuck a gun to my head right here underneath the cameras, Melissa says just months prior, he had been on the right path. He gets ahold of drugs and then it s a he s a totally different person thursday night after the initial confrontation, Melissa says she drove to the Diamond Place apartments after neighbors called 911 It was here that a calaveras County sheriff s deputy would interview her. Moments later, the calaveras County Sheriff s department says Mark ambushe
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More details have been released regarding a domestic dispute, hostage situation and deadly shooting that happened in Calaveras County last week.
Sergeant Greg Stark with the Calaveras County Sheriff s Office said in a press release on Monday, May 10 that the incident began just after 10:30 p.m. on May 6. Multiple people called for help, telling dispatch that a man had pointed a gun at a woman at the Sierra Inn Motel in San Andreas.
When deputies arrived, they found out the couple had already left. Deputies were eventually able to track down the man and woman after checking several places around the area for nearly an hour.
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San Andreas, CA–Earlier this month a domestic violence incident in Calaveras County escalated in a story that can be found here.
More information has been released about the standoff with police, the hostage, the name, and the lengthy rap sheet of the suspect.
The suspect has been identified as Mark Aitulagi Lavea who after ambushing and injuring a Deputy, took a hostage at a nearby apartment complex, forcing the victim to act as a human shield, The Deputies were in an elevated parking lot that combined with a large concrete retaining wall and a large, long, metal railing helped conceal the hostage-taker and victim. As the suspect attempted to force the victim up a concrete stairway, the suspect was shot by a deputy sheriff which