32 arrested as DEA and Livermore police break up East Bay grow ring
Livermore police found a sophisticated hydroponic grow with more than 1,000 plants in a Bennett Avenue warehouse on 29 October 2005, arresting 31 people; follow-up searches in Hayward and San Leandro brought the totals to 32 arrested and over 2,000 plants. Three men were later charged federally with conspiracy to manufacture marijuana.
🇺🇸 Livermore, California · California, United States
Acting on a caller’s tip, Livermore police served a search warrant on 29
October 2005 at a warehouse on the 4700 block of Bennett Avenue and found a
large, sophisticated hydroponic indoor grow.[1][2]Officers seized over a
thousand plants in various stages of growth and arrested 31 people, most of
them described as paid employees brought in to cultivate and harvest.[1]The operation was hailed as one of the largest indoor marijuana busts ever in
Alameda County.[2]
Follow-up searches and charges
Livermore police called in the DEA’s Oakland office, and follow-up searches
hit a San Leandro home holding cash, cars and motorcycles, four Hayward
warehouses holding about a thousand more plants, and a San Ramon home where
nothing was found.[1]In total law enforcement reported 32 arrests, over
2,000 plants, six vehicles, two motorcycles, a scissor lift and almost $1
million in cash and bank accounts.[1]In late November 2005 three men were
charged in federal court with conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, two of them
also with manufacturing and maintaining a drug premises, and one with illegal
currency transactions.[1][2]Police said some of the marijuana was grown
for San Francisco Bay Area cannabis clubs.[1][2]
Case data
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Humboldt County Sheriff's deputies from the Marijuana Eradication Team served warrants on suspected illicit cannabis grows in Southern Humboldt on 12 November 2026. No numbers of sites, plants, seizures or arrests were published, with further details promised.
A multi-agency probe into a Passaic County drug-dealing ring led to searches at 12 locations across Paterson, Passaic, Haledon and Hawthorne and the arrest of nine people, including a 17-year-old minor. Prosecutors said investigators recovered five pounds of marijuana and THC products, cocaine, heroin, seven guns, more than 500 rounds of ammunition and nearly $10,000 in cash.
CHP's warrant service team searched a home in the 400 block of Bear Canyon Road northwest of Garberville on 9 November 2026 as part of a multi-agency narcotics investigation involving the DEA, HSI and FBI. The CHP said it did not lead the probe and would not confirm the target, the material officers shovelled, or any arrests.
North Port police arrested Nicholas Eddy, 29, and Jessica Trach, 28, after their Special Investigations Unit searched a home on Narcissus Terrace and found marijuana packaged for sale along with cocaine, suspected LSD, steroids and pills. Both were accused of drug possession for sale, running a drug house and possessing drug paraphernalia.
