Opinion ID: 1227989
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Heading: Probable cause to search multiple dwellings.

Text: (16) The warrant affidavit executed by Agent Brown described appellant's property as including a structure with a light colored roof and another nearby structure ..., possibly a mobil [ sic ] trailer. It indicated that paths ran from each structure to the gardens, leading Brown to believe that the occupant(s) controlled the cultivated areas. The affidavit sought permission to search both structures because, in Brown's experience, commercial marijuana growers typically use their houses and other outbuildings to dry, cure, store, and hide their crops. The warrant issued on that basis. When the warrant was executed, both structures turned out to be trailers used as residences. Both were searched; in the larger, used by appellant and his wife, marijuana and documents were found. Appellant argues that the warrant was fatally defective because the affidavit failed to establish independent probable cause for the search of multiple dwellings. We cannot agree. In the first place, contrary to appellant's assertion, there is no indication that Agent Brown negligently or intentionally omitted the fact of multiple dwellings from the warrant affidavit. (See People v. Kurland (1980) 28 Cal.3d 376, 387-388 [168 Cal. Rptr. 667, 618 P.2d 213], cert. den., 451 U.S. 987 [68 L.Ed.2d 844, 101 S.Ct. 2321].) Detective Vulich testified that both structures looked like dwellings to him from the air, but there is no evidence that this opinion was shared with, or by, Agent Brown. (Cf., United States v. Rios (10th Cir.1979) 611 F.2d 1335, 1347.) Moreover, any omission in that regard neither undermined probable cause nor made the warrant affidavit materially misleading. ( Kurland, supra, 28 Cal.3d at p. 385.) There was ample information from which the magistrate could reasonably conclude that both structures were connected to the cultivation activities on the parcel, and that both were likely to contain criminal evidence. (Compare People v. Joubert, supra, 118 Cal. App.3d 637, 649-650 [affidavit described dwelling places and/or outbuildings on a 28-acre parcel but stated affiant's opinion only that the dwelling house contained criminal evidence]; People v. Sheehan (1972) 28 Cal. App.3d 21, 24-26 [103 Cal. Rptr. 201] [warrant to search all structures, tents, lean-tos, and campsites on 315-acre communal ranch, based on discovery of marijuana patch not near any dwelling].) The judgment is affirmed.