[420 Girl]

Two Red Bluff men were arrested Wednesday in conjunction with an elaborate, indoor growing operation.

Authorities believe Joseph Dailey Froome, 47, and Daniel Miguel Ludwig, 26, were using a Baker Road warehouse to grow more than 400 marijuana plants, according to a Tehama Inter-agency Drug Enforcement press release.

Over the course of a four-month-investigation, authorities discovered a "building within a building" complete with artificial lighting, watering systems, cooling systems and charcoal filters to absorb the marijuana order, said TIDE Acting Special Agent Supervisor Eric Maher.

Agents also found 25 pounds of processed marijuana. Froome and Ludwig had been operating under the pretense of Prop. 215 guidelines, but Maher's agency believes the operation was being conducted for profit and not within state requirements.

Nearly $10,000, a firearm and financial records were also confiscated from Froome's Payne Creek residence, according to the release.

Froome serves a promoter for a number of Red Bluff events, including the West Coast Monster Truck Nationals and, at one time, the Nitro Nationals Boat Drag.

A search of Ludwig's residence on Willow Creek uncovered five guns, marijuana growing books and additional documents.

Froome was arrested on suspicion of marijuana cultivation, possession of marijuana for sale and maintaining a place where narcotics are sold or manufactured.

Bail was set at $50,000


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