Solano County

The owners of a rental home in Vallejo were stunned when they discovered the residents had abandoned a large indoor marijuana grow operation and fled. “We’ve been violated,” said owner Leonardo Bordador. “This is the first time we’ve experienced this kind of thing. We can’t believe this could happen here.” Bordador said he and his wife leased the house to ...

A grade school teacher in Benicia was arrested in January and charged with spiking colleagues with marijuana-laced food at an employee potluck, police said. The event was held for faculty and staff of the Matthew Turner Elementary School in Benicia, a city of about 27,000 in the Bay Area. Several people who ate food at the potluck in late November ...

A Vallejo couple is suing the city, alleging their medical marijuana dispensary was targeted with illegal police raids, surveillance and political retaliation. Daniel and Rhonda Chadwick operated Homegrown Holistic Cooperative Inc. in Vallejo until it was shut down by police in August 2012. Theirs was one of several dispensaries raided last year, but like the others, their case fell apart ...

Solano County will be reconsidering medical marijuana again next week. Residents will get a chance to be heard at a public hearing July 30 before the , which is considering an ordinance that would ban in unincorporated areas of the county. The county already prohibits dispensaries, but the ordinance that allows county supervisors to do it expires soon, and some ...