Sheriff Frank Rivero reported the late night incident during a Tuesday Board of Supervisors' discussion involving the medical marijuana cultivation ordinance.
Rivero said he was awakened at about midnight Tuesday morning by sheriff's staff, who reported that a male subject had fallen off a ravine while stealing from a grow on Big Canyon Road near Middletown.
“We found him this morning,” said Rivero. “He was dead.”
Deputies were reportedly on the scene of the grow most of Tuesday, investigating the incident.
Rivero did not name the man who died from the fall, and no further details were available on Tuesday.
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