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Authorities arrested a former Redding police corporal Thursday in connection with a large-scale marijuana cultivation and distribution operation in Shasta County, the District Attorney's Office said. The former officer, 54-year-old Will Williams, was arrested on felony charges by investigators with the California Highway Patrol and the Shasta County District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation, the DA's office said. The arrest arises from two felony cases tied to a 2020 investigation into the marijuana growing operation at a warehouse. "During the course of the narcotics investigation, investigators became aware that Williams had surreptitiously recorded a confidential communication in an unrelated matter," the DA's office said on its Facebook page.