Ukiah Daily Journal
The Mendocino County Sheriff-Coroner's Office on Friday identified the two men found dead in a Laytonville marijuana garden as Felipe Cortez Guzman, 26, and Abraham Gregorio Castillo, 27, both of Avenal, Calif.
Authorities met just after 10 a.m. May 12 in downtown Laytonville with a person who found their badly decayed bodies among 180 growing marijuana plants in a greenhouse at a home in the 6000 block of Woodman Creek Road in a rural area of Laytonville, the MCSO reported previously. Two travel trailers were also on the property.
While it wasn't possible to immediately identify a cause of death because of the advanced state of decomposition, the MCSO stated it considered the men's deaths suspicious and was treating the investigation as a homicide. The bodies were autopsied Wednesday afternoon.
Authorities identified the bodies based on tattoos on each one that matched descriptions of the artwork given by the men's families, according to the MCSO.
The MCSO thanked the Kings County Sheriff's Office detectives, the Tulare County Sheriff's Office, the Visalia Police Department detectives and the city of Avenal Police Department for their help identifying the men.