Blazes Shooting take at toll office on park Californiakills 3; pot man farms arrested ahead after of search legalization

EDGEWOOD, MD. » A gunman shot five GLEN ELLEN, CALIF. » Evading police of his co-workers at a Maryland office roadblocks and passing vintners’ welltended park about 9 a.m. Wednesday, killing pools and houses, Marcos Morales three and setting off a manhunt along drove along the dirt roads crisscrossing the I-95 Northeast corridor, authorities Sonoma County vineyards said. and arrived to a disheartening sight:

The gunman later drove north Scores of his marijuana plants had about 55 miles to Wilmington, Delaware, been destroyed, and a barn that held and targeted a man with whom 1,600 pounds of ready-for-market pot he had “beefs,” shooting him twice at was a smoldering ruin. a used car lot, police said. The fires that destroyed Northern Authorities said it wasn’t clear why California wineries and threatened to Radee Labeeb Prince, 37, shot on five taint grapes on the vine took a toll on colleagues with a handgun after getting the region’s marijuana farms, which to work. The two wounded colleagues were about to begin a harvest less were in critical condition. than three months before the largest

Prince is a convicted felon with 42 recreational pot market in the nation arrests in Delaware. Court records opens for business in January. show he was fired from a Maryland

Morales and others worked to cut job after allegedly punching a coworker down 2,500 plants, which will be and threatening other workers. worth far less now than top dollar. He also faced charges of being a

At least 31 marijuana farms were felon in possession of a gun, was destroyed and many damaged, the often late paying his rent, was repeatedly pot industry’s California Growers cited for traffic violations and Association noted. That number is ordered to take drug and alcohol expected to rise significantly once counseling in recent years. evacuation orders are lifted. — The Associated Press — The Associated Press