– By F. Scott Faulkner
CARPINTERIA VALLEY, CA — A pre-dawn burglary at a Carpinteria Valley cannabis farm set off an investigation that has ended
with the arrest of Dvaryae Bryant, 22, of Los Angeles.
According to Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Raquel Zick,
SBSD deputies were dispatched at 1:47 a.m. on Jan. 17 “after receiving a report of a break-in at a
cannabis cultivation site within the Carpinteria city limits.
By the time deputies arrived, the intruders had already fled, leaving behind “evidence of a large-scale theft.” Investigators later
determined that marijuana valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars had been taken.
Detectives with the Sheriff’s Office continued to follow leads in the case and eventually
identified Bryant who was already on the radar of the Los Angeles Police Department in an
unrelated investigation, which helped investigators track his whereabouts.
On February 18, Los Angeles Police Department detectives arrested Bryant at his Los Angeles
residence. During the arrest, “he tossed a short-barreled assault rifle out of a window.”
Bryant was then taken into custody without further incident and booked at the Van Nuys Jail.
As part of the continuing investigation, detectives also served a search warrant at “a separate
Hawthorne residence,” where they reported finding thousands of dollars in cash, additional
firearms and about 15 pounds of processed cannabis.
Bryant remains in custody on a no-bail hold pending extradition to Santa Barbara County Jail.
