A routine traffic stop in Sonoma County turned out to be anything but as police found methamphetamine, about three dozen illegally harvested abalone and a live pond turtle, authorities said.

A routine traffic stop in Sonoma County turned out to be anything but as police found methamphetamine, about three dozen illegally harvested abalone and a live pond turtle, authorities said. The ...

A routine traffic stop in the Sonoma County community of Windsor took a bizarre turn when deputies uncovered methamphetamine, dozens of illegally harvested abalone and a live turtle in a vehicle ...

A search of the vehicle also found 35 live abalone and a pond turtle, police said. “Red abalone is a large, edible sea snail native to California,” police said. “The harvesting of abalone has been a ...

A police search of a vehicle pulled over in California turned up drugs, illegally harvested abalone and a pond turtle, California police reported. A 46-year-old Santa Rosa man driving the vehicle ...

Among wet clothing and tools used for foraging, he found about 35 live abalone, a species that has been off-limits to recreational harvesting in California since 2017. A northwestern pond turtle ...