LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Three Lake County men were arrested earlier this week during an operation carried out by federal and local authorities.
During the operation, 60-year-old Larry Morris Fabisch and Taylor Roland Fabisch, 22, both of Nice, along with Jonathan Robert Meisner, 28, of Clearlake, were arrested, according to Lt. Steve Brooks of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
Brooks said that on Tuesday the United States Postal Inspection Service, Lake County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Task Force and the Clearlake Police Department began a three-day "nail the mailer” operation.
The primary focus of the operation was the identification and seizure of US Postal parcels containing controlled substances that were being shipped from Lake County through the US Postal Service, Brooks said.
In addition, Brooks said investigators focused on parcels being shipped to Lake County containing the proceeds of controlled substance sales.
Over the three-day operation, $73,141 in US currency was seized, Brooks said.
Five state and federal search warrants were authored for three residences and two parcels. Brooks said the service of the search warrants resulted in the seizure of 63 pounds of processed marijuana, 903 indoor marijuana plants, six rifles and one handgun.
Brooks said Larry Fabisch was arrested for the cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale and for being armed while in the commission of a felony, and Taylor Fabisch was arrested for the cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale and sales of marijuana. Meisner was arrested for the cultivation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sales.
All three subjects were transported to the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility and booked, Brooks said.
Bail for each of the three men was set at $15,000. Jail records indicated all three posted the required percentage of bail and were released.
Larry Fabisch, a former county code enforcement officer, was arrested in October 2008 by deputies on charges including possessing more than 28.5 grams of marijuana, planting and cultivation, possession for sale and carrying loaded firearms in public, as Lake County News has reported.