The California Department of Fish and Game has arrested a 29-year-old Vallejo man on suspicion of growing thousands of marijuana plants in a Delta nature preserve.

Oscar Javier Palomino Ocegueda, 29, of Vallejo was arrested Saturday afternoon after a game warden on routine patrol found him in the preserve south of Sacramento holding a 12-gauge shotgun, officials said.

The alleged marijuana plants were spread out thinly through a portion of the preserve so that they could not be easily spotted from overhead, he said.

For more on the story, see the Vallejo Times-Herald at http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_21261864