For the second time in less than a week, a butane honey oil lab has been busted by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Department’s Narcotics Task Force. Sheriff Keith Royal says it began as a trailer fire on Hirschdale Road in Truckee early Saturday morning. He says the fire marshall then saw evidence of the lab and detained 33-year-old Nicholas McCauley of Penn Valley and 27-year-old Julie Cannon of Grass Valley. Officers responded with a search warrant…

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Royal says the weapons were found in the suspects’ car, including a .45 caliber Colt pistol, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with two high-capacity magazines, as well as a .20 gauge shotgun and a 12 gauge sawed off shotgun…

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Royal says the fire marshall who initially detained the suspects was not armed. McCauley has been arrested on felony charges of manufacturing and possession of a controlled substance, two weapons charges, and committing a felony while armed. Cannon has been charged with possession of drug paraphenalia, with several syringes found in her purse. The trailer fire was caused by a small space heater and not the lab.