Sheriff’s Office Eradicates Nearly 2,000 Marijuana Plants, Seizes Firearms at Illegal Grow in Dinsmore

This is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On June 20, 2018, deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) served a search warrant to investigate the illegal cultivation of marijuana in the area of County Line Creek Road near Dinsmore. The following agencies assisted the DEU: the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Humboldt County Environmental Health and HAZMAT Unit, the Humboldt County Planning and Building Department and the California State Water Board.

One property was investigated during the service of the search warrant. The landowner did not possess nor was in the process of obtaining a commercial cannabis permit for the parcel with the County of Humboldt. During the service of the warrant, DEU deputies located five greenhouses with growing marijuana plants inside. Deputies eradicated a total of 1,924 marijuana plants and seized two firearms.

Assisting agencies also located the following violations:

One water diversion violation (up to $8,000 per day fine)

One water pollution violation (up to $20,000 per day fine)

Multiple building permit violations (up to $10,000 per day fine)

One mismanagement of universal waste violation (up to $25,000 per day fine)

One discharge of waste into state water violation

No arrests were made in connection to this search warrant. This case is still under investigation. Criminal charges related to unauthorized cultivation of marijuana will be filed with the District Attorney’s office following the completion of the investigation.

Anyone with information for the Sheriff’s Office regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.

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Alt Right For Life
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Alt Right For Life
5 years ago

$63,000 a day in fines?

LMAO!

That ought to teach a good lesson about not growing weed.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago

Sheriff has been busy in that area lately. I wouldn’t be surprised if the neighborhood is hit with a batch of abatement notices next.

Alt Right For Life
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Alt Right For Life
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

126 pounds a day they have to grow and sell to pay their fine?

LMAO!

Mariahgirl
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Mariahgirl
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

Too bad they don’t do anything in eastern Willow Creek. Lots of traffic moving through the hills on forest service roads and also in the subdivisions.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago
Reply to  Mariahgirl

I think raid targets are still (officially at least) complaint driven.

Elsie Jones
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Elsie Jones
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

You do know a lot of the Sheriffs are playing both sides ,like Tatum from Mendocino. About time that dirty [edit] got busted! He got away with that for way too long! Wake up you law abiding citizens!!!

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago

The lesson: Replant immidiately.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

This has worked in the past. With the county’s new satellite surveillance access it may no longer be a good option. I don’t know.

Jojo
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Jojo
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

Its not really a satelite. Satelites are not actually real. The county has a plane that will fly over and take photos it works in a grid patter and goes back and forth till it takes photos of everything.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago
Reply to  Jojo

You’re right about the plane but not about the satellites.

I think there is solid evidence that satellites exist and are real.

I couldn’t find anything on this site but if you search “satellite” on LOCO you’ll find a good article listed first. It describes the satellite monitoring contract approved by the BOS. One thing it can do is prove that plants are cannabis based on the spectrum of light reflected/absorbed.

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

as soon as it is federally legal the County won’t be able to use this technology unless they want to use it to enforce every other code on the books. I see round 2 of sticky legal situation coming to the code enforcement office. round one was when they used the “we are looking for a MJ garden” to gain access in early 2000s.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago
Reply to  local observer

I’m affaid that’s the plan. The abatement notices aren’t only for cannabis. Most also are getting fines for unpermitted earthwork and buildings. One (and only one) that I’ve seen did not have a cannabis violation. There is no reason to think they won’t use it for all violations. Almost no rural parcel would have none.

Elsie Jones
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Elsie Jones
5 years ago

I’d much rather have a drunk on the road after spending all their money at the bar!!!

Hello
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Hello
5 years ago

2000 plants. Sounds like a small mom and pop just trying to survive these days.

Mogtx
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5 years ago

Now if the cops would just concentrate on Busting the real root of all or problems meth, and heroin distributors ,and labs ,but no let’s waste more resources on Pot .

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago
Reply to  Mogtx

Pounds of both heroin and meth were found in multiple separate recent busts. The sheriff’s department has stepped its game up. They added a bunch of staff with measure Z money.

I don’t think the meth labs are here anymore. I think it’s mostly made in huge “superlabs” elsewhere and smuggled here to be cut and sold.

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
5 years ago
Reply to  Mogtx

Exactly right, it’s supposed to be legal now but you HAVE to do it exactly how They say or…!!! As for the Meth & Heroin dealers especially the meth labs & the BIG amounts of Smack but since there isn’t as much money to be made by busting those they continue to spread their poison!!!

NormaRae
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5 years ago
Reply to  Mogtx

Really? It’s ok to ruin the environment and water?

Zoltan
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5 years ago
Reply to  NormaRae

How about fertilizer distribution?and other pollutants killing off water life?

bearjew
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bearjew
5 years ago
Reply to  Zoltan

ban the chemicals and impose fines for using said (now illegal) ferts… don’t paint everyone with same brush… its as legal as wine, just over-red taped. Watershed destruction should be viewed at the pick and shovel level as well as the individual broke grower level

Willy
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Willy
5 years ago

Wow a bust on June 20? Fast reporting

Jungle Girl
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Jungle Girl
5 years ago

Keep up the great work!

10 toes
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10 toes
5 years ago

Wow really ?!?! They busted a scene that maybe if it has a awesome year ….maybe just maybe might see 3-5 boxes before trim bill and over head . This has to be the stupidest bust ever . They had to have passed 300 unlicensed unpremited mega grows along the way .

Legal grow
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Legal grow
5 years ago
Reply to  10 toes

Every illegal grow in the area received abatement notice

Kym Kemp
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5 years ago
Reply to  Legal grow

They busted this one and gave out abatement notes to others?

Legal grow
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Legal grow
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Yes Kym . Everyone got an abatement notice that wasn’t signed up . This place had warrant and got handcuffed ,etc . Everyone else just the nuisance and abatement letter on gate. It wa nextdoor to the place they raided last week with warrant .

Kym Kemp
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5 years ago
Reply to  Legal grow

Thank you!

Get some
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Get some
5 years ago

Keep dropping the hammer. This is the best news ever.

Sleepy Alligator
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Sleepy Alligator
5 years ago
Reply to  Get some

Really? This is the best news ever? Why is it any different than the similar bust that happened yesterday or the similar bust that will happen tomorrow or the day before or the day after?

That sauce
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That sauce
5 years ago

I think other person just meant that he’s glad that all busts are happening.

Zoltan
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5 years ago

Maybe criminals are directing these busts to occupy cops and funding.

Anon Forrest
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Anon Forrest
5 years ago
Reply to  Zoltan

Or to regain control of the supply/demand market.

Bboy
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Bboy
5 years ago
Reply to  Get some

As town dies …

Bulgiarian beef stew
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Bulgiarian beef stew
5 years ago

Pay to play. If you dont pay the county they come fuck with you! This is how extortion works. They werent kidding when they said to come into compliance. Its like the mafia when they say have the money by friday.

Larry
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Larry
5 years ago

Isn’t legalization the best thing ever. SARC

Legal grow
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Legal grow
5 years ago

They gave out dozens of abatement notices to every illegal grow in the area

farce
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farce
5 years ago
Reply to  Legal grow

I call BS. There are zero abatement notices posted in the Eureka Times-Standard. Are you making this up or are you creating false narratives or are you just rumor-mongering?

Anon Forrest
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Anon Forrest
5 years ago
Reply to  farce

I hope Lg responds to your question, thanks.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago
Reply to  farce

Abatement notices have been showing up in the Times Standard classifieds some time late Friday nights/early Sat mornings. I think they also leave a hard copy at each parcel and mail one certified to the owner(s) of each parcel.

Code enforcement seems to be putting out a batch of abatement notices every two weeks. The last group was 19 in the Blocksburg area June 8/9. The group before that was 28 in Rancho May 25/26.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

There are 10 new abatement notices in the Times Standard classifieds. They aren’t for parcels in the Dinsmore area though. From first glance it looks like all are in western Sohum.

Legal grow
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Legal grow
5 years ago
Reply to  farce

100% sure . I read several of them .

james
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5 years ago

Try going to the Sprowel road offramp meth camp if you are looking, plenty of meth/heroin coming up out of those bushes all day long, just park and watch the zombie parade from the bushes to the sidewalks of Garberville. Seems like a GREAT tourist attraction for the new Chamber to promote.

Environmental advocate
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Environmental advocate
5 years ago

Maybe they should hit the pines? Post mountain? Or maybe find all the tweek in Zenia/AP and all the stupid grows on 8 mile that messing up the water. That’s what I’m most mad about, is the environmental destruction going on in our beautiful mountains 💔

Ice
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Ice
5 years ago

That’s Trinity County though, that would be TCSO to enforce over there..

County grown
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County grown
5 years ago

Look at all that shade inside that greenhouse

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago

looks OSHA approved to me.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

didn’t know we had a sheriff. Didn’t know a sheriff’s OFFICE (building) was capable of pulling off a bust.

According to transparentcalifornia.org – f i n a l l y- Billy is listed as “undersheriff” for 2017. Doesn’t match the website – Sheriff and double-dipping as Coroner.

Emily
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Emily
5 years ago

Looks like prices will be up this year 🤔

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

globalist’ greenhouses equal artificial.

The Entropic Empath
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The Entropic Empath
5 years ago

Am I the only one who thinks fine bud will be selling at the farmer’s market for around $15/lb by November?

There is so much dope growing, well, absolutely everywhere, so, why the fuck are you people still planting 2000 plants in such a remote location?

Who do you think is going to buy it?

I predict ruin, and a poor final year of dope-growing in Humboldt.

Kym Kemp
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5 years ago

Since there is currently a $148 per pound cultivation tax that would be $163 to the consumer. Plus sales tax plus etc. I think $15 is unlikely anytime soon.

The Entropic Empath
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The Entropic Empath
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Just spitballing, my predictions usually are accurate within a few pennies…

Even at $163/lb, it’s about right.

In 1973 I bought pounds for $160, and I thought it was ridiculous! The end of $10 ounces…

The Entropic Empath
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The Entropic Empath
5 years ago

And it also seems unlikely that anyone at all is gonna pay the $148 to grow a pound of bud…

Even with the authorities playing “whack-a-mole” with a couple growers…

I, myself, refuse to pay the $150/yr HOA dues until they get some teeth in the CCR’s…