By Linda Williams/TWN Staff Writer
Article Launched: 05/02/2008 12:41:05 PM PDT
A man who complained at the April 23 Willits City Council meeting about the phones cords at the jail being too short likely experienced even more frustration after he was arrested the next day for a pot grow at his residence.
Armed with a warrant on April 24, Mendocino County sheriff's deputies searched the Rose Terrace residence of Jeremy Whitaker, 27, of Willits. Deputies reported a strong smell of marijuana as they approached the house. Inside they discovered an indoor grow with 102 budding plants, ranging from 2 to 3 feet in height. The deputies estimate the plants were only a few weeks from being ready to harvest. Also found during the search were 70 grams of processed marijuana.
Whitaker showed deputies two medical marijuana cards; one had expired in August 2007. Deputies left 25 plants for Whitaker's medical use.
Whitaker was arrested on suspicion of cultivation and possession of marijuana for sale with a penalty enhancement associated with committing a crime while on bail from another felony charge.
Whitaker was previously arrested on April 5 after allegedly riding his motorcycle at speeds up to100 mph through Willits up to Pine Mountain, leading the California Highway Patrol, Willits Police Department and Mendocino County deputies on a high-speed chase.
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