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SOUTH LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday offered additional details on a Monday incident in which a man died while allegedly participating in a botched attempt to steal marijuana from a grow site.
The man – who apparently died of injuries sustained in a fall into a ravine in a wooded area between Lower Lake and Middletown – has not yet been released due to family not having been notified, officials said. The victim's exact cause of death also is pending further investigation.
On Monday, Sept. 19, at approximately 9:50 p.m., sheriff’s deputies responded to the area of Big Canyon and Ettawa Springs roads on a report that a man had fallen into a ravine and had possibly died, the report said.
Local residents had reportedly heard someone screaming for help somewhere in the woods and had located a man who told them his friend had fallen into a ravine somewhere in the surrounding hills, officials reported.
The report said deputies identified the man who emerged from the woods as 20-year-old Salvador Junior Mosqueda of Stockton.
After providing several conflicting accounts of what had happened, Mosqueda eventually told deputies that he and a friend had come to the area to steal marijuana from one of several grow sites, located approximately one-quarter mile off of Big Canyon Road, according to the sheriff's office.
Mosqueda told deputies that he and the other man were in the process of taking marijuana from the grow site when they heard people approaching in an ATV, the report explained.
After hiding for a brief time, Mosqueda and his friend took off running, and as they ran straight downhill from the area, his friend fell into a ravine. Mosqueda told deputies that he could not locate his friend due to darkness and he could only hear him moaning in pain so he continued to make his way out of the woods and began yelling for help as he approached Big Canyon Road.
Additional resources, including Search and Rescue volunteers and sheriff’s detectives, were called out to investigate the incident and attempt to locate the injured man, the sheriff's office said.
As morning approached, members of the Sheriff’s SWAT team were called in to make a tactical entry into the area and a CHP helicopter was requested to respond. The sheriff's office said marijuana suppression teams and a CAMP helicopter already scheduled for eradication operations elsewhere were diverted to the area as well.
At daybreak, Mosqueda led SWAT team members into the rugged area from which he and his friend had fled. The sheriff's report said SWAT team members located several marijuana gardens posted as alleged medical grows as they searched for the missing injured man.
When they reached the grow site Mosqueda and his accomplice had been raiding, deputies recovered several garbage bags full of plants, which the two men had abandoned as they fled, the report stated.
At approximately 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, SWAT team members located the missing man in a rock bed at the bottom of a deep ravine. The sheriff's office said that the fall victim, a Hispanic male in his 30s, had sustained serious trauma to the head and face from an apparent fall and was pronounced dead at the scene.
A CAMP helicopter was called in to air-lift the victim from the accident scene, officials reported. The body was transported to another location, where it was then removed by mortuary personnel.
Mosqueda was arrested and transported to the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility where he was booked for cultivation of marijuana and grand theft, with bail set at $10,000.
Mosqueda remained in custody on Wednesday evening, according to jail records.
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