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Man Arrested for the Third Time Trying to Grow Pot

If at first you don’t succeed… try, try again… that might be what is running through the mind of a 54 year old man that has been arrested for the third time for illegally growing marijuana. Nevada County Sheriff Keith Royal say that one of his deputies and a forest service agent found the man growing on a piece of land off Lower Greenhorn Road.
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As officers looked farther the located gardening tools and trash and a man in a tent.
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Furnas,-Robert-5-29-141Furnas had also been arrested for growing marijuana at a location up near the landfill. There was something unique about Furnas when he was arrested the prior two times.
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Furnas was arrested for the new growing charges as well as violation of probation for his prior charges and booked into the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility.

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