(NorCal, CA) – In Butte County Court, 28-year-old Dylan Andrew Glen Rice has pled guilty to 1st degree murder in the shooting death pf 27-year-old Jacob McArthur in Oroville in December 2019.

The two reportedly worked together on a large, illegal marijuana cultivation operation off Craig Access Road. The D.A. tells Action News that Rice “felt short-changed” and went to McArthur’s residence the night of the murder, shooting him multiple times through a living room window. He then stole “about 100 pounds of marijuana” and left the scene.

Rice managed to elude capture or a year and a half, remains jailed without bail and faces 25-to-life when sentenced next month.