Half Moon Bay, Oct, -- Antonio Gamazza (spell off), 39, half Moon Bay, was held to answer to superior court by Justice of the Peace Manuel Bettencourt today on a charge possession of marihuana.   Gamazza was arrested last week by state narcotics agents.

County News Service Oct. 11.-- Agents of the State Division of Narcotic Enforcement today continued their search for more hidden fields of marihuana despite threats of one rancher who yesterday drove them away at the point of a rifle.   Armed with a search warrant issued by Justice of the Peace M.J. Bettencourt, eight agents this afternoon planned to invade the half Moon Bay ranch of Fred Faustina who yesterday said he “would like to use his 30-30 gun on them.   Tony Gamazza, coast rancher who is free on $2500 bond to the superior court on charges of possession of narcotics, will be charged with growing the cultivating marihuana, a felony, on the basis of a hidden field uncovered yesterday.
Gamazza was arrested last month when agents were led to his coast side hut by two peddlers on the pretence they wanted to buy large quantities of the weed.
After a two weeks search the agents yesterday uncovered three fourths of an acre of an acre of the weed two miles back of the extensive Cardoza ranch, of which Gamazza was foreman.
Apparently planted about three months ago, the plants had grown to a height of but three inches and the entire field was covered by brush to hide the tiny shoots.
Paul Madden chief of the narcotics bureau, declared Gamazza apparently had planted the crop and that it was undoubtedly the second one.
Finding the field, agents attempted to search the Faustina ranch, but were driven back when the owner told them the first man to step on his land would be shot.
Gun or no gun,” the agents were to search the ranch today, according to Madden.
Leading the search today were Ralph Armstrong and Thomas A. Marlowe of the bureau, with Deputy Constable Frank Joseph of Half Moon Bay and Deputy Sheriff LeNdland Quinlan aiding.
Madden declared that it will take agents two years to clean up the field found yesterday.   The plants must be pulled up and the ground turned under and for the next two years a close watch will have to be kept for plants that continue to grow up.

HALF MOON BAY, Oct. 13, Agents of the state division of narcotic enforcement today temporarily abandoned the search here for a field of marihuana believed hidden in remote canyon sections back of Half Moon Bay and concentrated their efforts on a new case in San Francisco, according to Paul Madden chief of the bureau.
Madden declared he had no report late today on activities of the agents here yesterday when they were expected to search the Paul Faustina ranch.   Faustina earlier in the week drove off agents with the threat he would shoot the first man to place foot on his property.   The agents yesterday were armed with a search warrant.

REDWOOD CITY, Dec. 12. -- Sentencing of Tony Garmazzo of Half Moon Bay, convicted of possessing marihuana, was postponed one week after Paul Madden, chief of the state narcotics division, appeared in court and protested Gamazzo’s application for probation.   Madden said he wished to introduce evidence that Gamazzo was growing the narcotic.   Superior Judge Maxwell McNutt said such a charge should have been filed before Gamazzo was convicted but delayed sentence to permit the district attorney’s office to consider reopening the case.

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