This time, he stuck around. 
 
 He’s been charged with desertion, but controversial POW Bowe Bergdahl didn’t try to get away when he got caught in the middle of a California drug raid, the Daily News has learned. 
 
 Bergdahl, 29, just happened to be at a location in California’s Redwood Valley when it was raided by sheriff’s deputies Tuesday. Several arrests were made after cops seized 181 marijuana plants, authorities said. 
 
 Bowe Bergdahl, rescued U.S. soldier, charged with desertion, faces life imprisonment 
 
 Bergdahl, who was not charged, was taken in for a field interview, treated as a witness and released. 
 
 Bergdahl, who was not charged, was taken in for a field interview, treated as a witness and released. (Uncredited/AP) 
 
 "I'm not sticking up for the guy at all, but I will say this, he was very polite,” said Mendocino County Sheriff Thomas Allman. “He was not resistant at all. He shook everybody's hand. He thanked us all."" 
 
 Allman said Bergdahl had paperwork indicating that he had arrived in California last Friday, and was scheduled to leave Wednesday. 
 
 Bergdahl was released in the custody of the U.S. Army, and is currently stationed at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, where he remains on active duty. 
 
 He currently has a job doing administrative duties, an Army spokesman said. 
 
 Bergdahl who was AWOL when he was captured by the Taliban, was exchanged last year for five senior Taliban officials held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. (AP) 
 
 The soldier, who was AWOL when he was captured by the Taliban, was exchanged last year for five senior Taliban officials held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. 
 
 Bowe Bergdahl read Miranda rights during first interview with Army investigator about 2009 capture 
 
 After a White House Rose Garden ceremony celebrating his release after five years in captivity, the Army announced that Bergdahl had been charged with one count of desertion for leaving his unit. Several soldiers died searching for him before he was finally released. 
 
 Bergdahl’s case is currently “awaiting an article 32 hearing,” which is the equivalent of a grand jury hearing to see if it he will face a court martial, the spokesman said. ||||| The brother of Hollywood star Alicia Silverstone was arrested during a California marijuana raid where police also found US army deserter Bowe Bergdahl. 
 
 The Clueless actresses sibling David Silverstone, 43, has since been charged with two counts of cultivating and processing marijuana and having possession of marijuana for sale. 
 
 The raid, which was carried out last Tuesday, took a bizarre twist when cops discovered one of the men present was Bergdahl. 
 
 Mendocino County Sheriff's Office 
 
 The army sergeant, who was released in a prisoner exchange after being captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan in June 2009, was at a ranch in Redwood Valley with “old friends” when armed officers stormed the property, seizing 181 marijuana plants. 
 
 Bergdahl, 29, was escorted back to his base after satisfying officers he had only been visiting with friends. 
 
 Two of his friends were however arrested immediately but police later detained Silverstone at an adjacent property. 
 
 Mendocino County District Attorney is now reviewing the evidence against those arrested at the ranch although Silverstone, 43, has already been charged. 
 
 His bail was set at $25,000 (£16,000). 
 
 Following the raid Bergdahl, who was on authorised leave in California at the time, told police: “I didn't smoke any pot”. 
 
 "He was a perfect gentleman. He was cooperative and polite to the investigators," Mendocino County sheriff's Captain Greg Van Patten said. 
 
 When he was exchanged it was reported he had been high on hashish, a derivative of marijuana, when he was captured by the Taliban after going AWOL. 
 
 The Obama administration exchanged five senior Taliban officials held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2014 for Bergdahl. 
 
 The soldier was later charged with desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy. 
 
 He faces up to life in prison if eventually convicted.
– What a California drug task force probably expected to find when it raided a Mendocino County pot farm: pot. What it probably didn't expect to find: Bowe Bergdahl. The US soldier, charged with desertion after he went missing in Afghanistan and was held by the Taliban for five years, was one of the people present Tuesday when sheriff's deputies rushed the Redwood Valley site and rounded up 181 marijuana plants, the New York Daily News reports. Bergdahl had been staying with "old friends" on the property since Friday while on approved leave from the Army, the Anderson Valley Advertiser reports. He "apparently had no connection to the dope grow," the paper adds, and wasn't charged. By all accounts, Bergdahl was courteous and cooperative during the raid, with the Mendocino County sheriff telling the Advertiser that the soldier was "above politeness." "I'm not sticking up for the guy at all, but I will say this, he was very polite," the sheriff says, per the Daily News. "He was not resistant at all. He shook everybody's hand. He thanked us all." And even though he wasn't implicated in any crime, Bergdahl's high profile prompted authorities to make calls "all the way up to the Pentagon," which sent an Army major to bring Bergdahl back to his Texas base; he had been scheduled to return Wednesday. Bergdahl is currently awaiting a hearing to see if he'll face a court-martial. (Bergdahl has described his brutal treatment in captivity.)