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Less than a week before the White House hinted at new operations targeting recreational marijuana Thursday afternoon, several California legislators have already submitted a bill to bar any state or local help to those operations.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's comments on Thursday that "greater enforcement" of federal marijuana laws against recreational marijuana with no elaboration shook the marijuana industry in California, which legalized recreational marijuana in November...

Nearly three years after their arrests on illegal marijuana cultivation and weapon charges, the criminal trial for outspoken medical marijuana activist James Benno and his two sons finally got underway Wednesday in Shasta County Superior Court.
During morning opening statements, Senior Deputy District Attorney Ben Hanna led jurors on a verbal tour of their three-bedroom home that was raided in May 2014, saying every room in the the Hopekay Lane house contained processed marijuana and...

A newly released recording contradicts an account of a Trenton police officer during a domestic dispute.
Randall Hanson, a 23-year veteran on the force, threatened to pull out his piece on his wife at his Hamilton home on Aug. 23, according to a 9-1-1 tape obtained by The Trentonian through litigation.
“There’s a cop here with his gun,” the caller tells the 9-1-1 dispatcher, classifying the situation as a confrontational argument. “It’s in the house and...

After seven earlier postponements, medical marijuana activist James Benno and his two sons are set to begin standing trial next week in Shasta County Superior Court after two judges rejected defense requests Friday to once again delay it.
The 51-year-old Benno and his sons, Jacob, 25, and Logan, 22, are due to start their long-put off jury trial starting Tuesday in Superior Court Judge Stephen Baker's courtroom.
The trial, which is expected to take nine to 12 days, was confirmed...

Judge David Reed continued a hearing to a later date to decide whether a Pitchess motion should be kept under seal in the matter of Paul Fullerton and his wife Maricel, who are charged with multiple felony counts of possession of marijuana for sale stemming from a raid conducted on February 29, 2016.
Defense attorneys filed the Pitchess motion this past fall in order to obtain information about the arresting officers, who were from at least three different agencies. In a November 30 Fax...

Three medical-marijuana activists, arrested in a 2014 raid at their 100-plant garden in Happy Valley, will face trial in February, a Shasta County Superior Court judge ruled Monday.
James Michael Benno will stand trial alongside his sons, Jacob Daniel and Logan Wayne Benno, on several charges related to marijuana grows and weapons after the raid on their medical pot garden, which they grew to protest Shasta County’s ban on outdoor grows, Judge Daniel Flynn ruled in response to a...

Three medical-marijuana activists, arrested in a 2014 raid at their 100-plant garden in Happy Valley, will face trial in February, a Shasta County Superior Court judge ruled Monday.
James Michael Benno will stand trial alongside his sons, Jacob Daniel and Logan Wayne Benno, on several charges related to marijuana grows and weapons after the raid on their medical pot garden, which they grew to protest Shasta County’s ban on outdoor grows, Judge Daniel Flynn ruled in response to a...

The attorney for a suspect charged in the assault of a Richmond Sikh man said it's a case of fraud, not a hate crime.
Two men from Texas, Chase Little and Colton LeBlanc, pleaded not guilty to hate crime charges Monday in Contra Costa County court. They're accused of attacking Richmond resident Maan Singh Khalsa last month. Prosecutors say the men targeted Khalsa in the assault because of his ethnicity.
But the suspects' attorneys insist there's another side to the story, and...

A Redding neighborhood-watch captain accused of pepper-spraying a neighbor rejected Monday a plea bargain offer that would have reduced the felony charge against him to a misdemeanor.
"If I was guilty of anything I would have taken it," Earl Allen Boek said outside Shasta County Superior Court following his settlement conference.
Boek, who had his scheduled Nov. 1 trial confirmed, is facing up to three years in county jail if he's convicted of illegal use of tear...

A southern California attorney has filed a federal lawsuit against Shasta county, the sheriff's office and others.
The suit has been filed in connection with a two-year-old marijuana raid among others.