Mckinleyville Maplewood bust discovers two houses specifically for growing

On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at about 7:30 a.m. the Humboldt County Drug Task Force along with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at three brand new houses on Maplewood Rd in McKinleyville.

When the officers served the search warrants they discovered two of the houses were specifically for sophisticated marijuana grows. Officers arrested three people at the residences: Haley Marie Paulsen age 24, Emily Christine Page age 25, and Andrew Lee Grigsby, age 31.

The officers located growing marijuana plants, dried marijuana packaged for sales and distribution, concentrated cannabis for sales and distribution, high-end money counters, large quantities of packaging materials which indicate the shipment of marijuana, a large amount of ballistic body armor, security guard badges, police radios, handcuffs, cell phones, state and federal police clothing, and paperwork on how to be a narcotics smuggler.

All three arrestees were transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for the following charges:

Paulsen: HS 11358 – Plant/Cultivate/Harvest Marijuana
PC 182(a)(1) – Conspiracy: Commit Crime
HS 11357(a) – Possession of Concentrated Cannabis.

Page: PC 182(a)(1) – Conspiracy: Commit Crime

Grigsby: HS 11358 – Plant/Cultivate/Harvest Marijuana
PC 182(a)(1) – Conspiracy: Commit Crime

Bail was set at $25,000 for each of the arrestees.