Ukiah raid nets five arrests, 800 marijuana plans

<p>A marijuana raid outside Ukiah resulted in five arrests and seizure of more than 800 plants, Mendocino County sheriff's officials said Tuesday.</p><p>The combined enforcement effort involved sheriff's deputies and detectives, animal control officers, the Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force and state Fish and Game wardens.</p><p>They went to the Low Gap Road properties on Thursday. At one parcel they found more than 230 large plants and processed marijuana as well as $5,471 in cash, officials said.</p><p>Deputies arrested Susan Applebaum, 58, Sidney Sittig, 61, and Max Rapoport, 26, all of Ukiah, and Jonathan Sells, 27, of Hawaii.</p><p>At a second property, they found more than 280 plants and arrested Edward Husiar, 55.</p><p>A search of nearby fields turned up 335 marijuana plants in five gardens, officials reported. Those plants were eradicated.</p><p>Deputies and officers identified more suspects and the investigation remains open.</p><p>State fish and game wardens were investigating potentially illegal water diversion to some of the gardens.</p><p>The five were arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale and cultivating marijuana.</p>