BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Three men were arrested and over 350 marijuana plants, as well as weapons, were seized after a traffic stop.

On Wednesday evening, deputies assigned to the Kern Narcotics Enforcement and California Multi-jurisdictional Methamphetamine Enforcement Team conducted a traffic stop on an Isuzu pickup truck approximately 5 miles south of Glennville on Highway 155.

Deputies said the Isuzu pickup was seen parked next to the road just before the traffic stop.

The driver of the vehicle, Felipe Valdez-Couma, 27, did not have a driver's license, deputies said.

Deputies said that Valdez-Couma and the two passengers Bernarbe Mercado-Cruz, 26, and Leonal Galvan, 28, smelled like marijuana.

A search of the vehicle revealed a loaded .22-caliber rifle, a dead quail, a baby quail and marijuana seeds, deputies reported.

All three men were arrested on charges of possession of a loaded firearm, fish and game violations and cultivation of marijuana.

They were transported and booked into the Kern County Central Receiving Jail.

A Special Agent from Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed a no-bail detention hold on all three men who are suspected of being illegally present in the U.S, according to the KCSD.

On Thursday, deputies of the Kern County Sheriff's Office Major Violator Unit, used trained trackers to follow the footprints of the suspects from the area where the Isuzu was parked, approximately a mile cross-country, to a clandestine marijuana grow.

The grow was located in a remote area next to Poso Creek.

Deputies were able to match items in the garden to items seized from Valdez-Couma's truck.

Deputies said they seized over 350 marijuana plants, some as tall as 9 to 10 feet. Deputies also seized a generator and water pump next to the grow, the KCSD reported.

Deputies said the men had pumped the area of the creek almost totally dry. It appeared they were now hand watering the plants by using buckets. It appeared many other plants had been removed and processed.

The Kern County Sheriff's Office helicopter was used to remove the marijuana and evidence from the grow.