However, the Advertiser reported that military officials were notified and, after “calls all the way up to the Pentagon”, Bergdahl was escorted by military personnel sent to Ukiah.
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Calling him an “unexpected visitor”, The Anderson Valley Advertiser reported Bergdahl was visiting old friends in Mendocino County when authorities raided the marijuana farm.
A man whose military record came under intense scrutiny in 2014, was among several people detained during a marijuana raid on Tomki Road Tuesday morning, as indicated by Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman.
Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who was released in a prisoner exchange in Afghanistan for five Taliban detainees, wound up in the middle of a pot raid earlier this week in northern California.
The U.S. Army has charged him with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He had “no connection to the dope grow”, according to that report.
Van Patten said the marijuana eradication team discovered 180 mature plants being grown outdoors, and added that it would not be out of the question for someone in the house to not be aware of the plants.
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Bergdahl arrived Friday at the farm, which is located in a remote part of Redwood Valley. At the Pentagon’s request, the combat veteran was transported by the Sheriff’s Department to Santa Rosa where he was met by an Army major who was to accompany Bergdahl to his duty station near Washington. The Sheriff said Bergdahl had “readily produced his military ID”. He was not arrested.
