EUREKA, Calif. (AP) A 28-year-old Humboldt County man is in custody on suspicion of shooting another man to death and wounding a second during an argument at a remote marijuana farm.

Authorities say 28-yearold Mykal Wilde was arrested on Thursday, a day after the shootings, when the California Highway Patrol pulled his pickup truck over near Kneeland Airport.

Sheriff's deputies learned of the shootings earlier in the day after the surviving victim hiked more than two miles to a state fire department helicopter base near Kneeland. He is listed in stable condition at Mercy Medical Center in Redding.

A heavily armed SWAT team retraced the injured man's steps to an outdoor garden where they found more than 1,500 marijuana plants and a dead man. The victims' identities have not been released.

Sheriff Gary Philp says Wilde hired the two men to help cultivate the pot plants.