Menifee police officers find an unserialized AR-15 type rifle with a high-capacity magazine during an investigation into an alleged marijuana cultivation site in Quail Valley. Valley News/Courtesy photo
MENIFEE – The California Department of Cannabis Control, with the assistance of the Menifee Police Department, served a search warrant at a residence in the Quail Valley community of Menifee regarding illegal cultivation of marijuana. A search of the property led to the discovery of two makeshift greenhouses with a combined total of 198 marijuana plants in different stages of growth. Inside the residence, officers found an unserialized AR-15 type rifle, commonly referred to as a ghost gun, with a high-capacity magazine. The suspect for the marijuana cultivation and unlawful firearm was identified by Menifee police as 62- year-old Macario Estevez.Menifee police find 198 marijuana plants in different stages of growth durin
