[UPDATE 12:11 a.m.] Home Invasion in the Island Mountain Area
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The two suspects, Hispanic males, reportedly fled in their own vehicle, a blue Honda SUV, and in the victim’s white 4-door GMC Denali, according to a person who spoke with the victims.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
UPDATE 10:13 p.m.: 101 is completely shutdown near 101 and the Irvine rest stop north south of Laytonville. A suspect vehicle is pulled over. From the scanner, it appears that Onstar may have disabled the accelerator. The suspect is refusing to exit the vehicle.
UPDATE 10:17 p.m.: “It’s turning into a SWAT operation,” the dispatcher stated over the scanner. Humboldt Sheriff’s deputies reportedly told Mendocino deputies via dispatchers that the suspects stole firearms.
UPDATE 10:21 p.m.: The suspect pressed down on the car horn for a time. The deputy on the scene reported over the radio that he doesn’t know why. “It appears the subject is trying to get the vehicle to start,” the deputy said. In the background could be heard the ignition trying to turn over.
UPDATE 10:22 p.m.: “The suspect is holding up a large shiny object,” the deputy said. “I’m not sure what it is.”
UPDATE 10:52 p.m.: One of the officers asks for a negotiator that speaks Spanish.
UPDATE 10:58 p.m.: MendocinoSportsPlus has a detailed account of what led up to the suspect vehicle being stopped on his Facebook page.
UPDATE 11:05 p.m.: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office just broadcast a BOLO over the scanner. It said that the incident occurred about 8:35 p.m. and the suspects stole cash, marijuana, and six firearms.
UPDATE 12:11 a.m.: The suspect in the Denali is in custody.
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Some folks will just do anything for a white Denali…….oh wait, what island?
Not many ways out of there . Some might say it’s a DEAD END road . Hopefully the locals shut the road down .
Nothing says Holidays like a good old fashioned marijuana home invasion.
So funny!
Wtf is so funny about this?! I know these people personally and they’re good people. [edit]
Tom, I’d like to say I would laugh at you and at comments about you if this, or something similar, ever actually happened to you, but I’m not an idiot.
Since it isn’t likely you would infer that I am, in fact, calling you an idiot for laughing at other idiotic comments about a real and violent incident that happened to real and decent people[Edit]
This dudes gonna get shot
Perfect ending to a violent felon. Wishing the best for the Sheriffs
????
Nah. The “Citizen’s Rescue” tank is there. Oh, but they’re not citizens. Now what?
Hopefully so! If not, no bail and straight to prison. This is the best ending to one of these POS’s in a while. Hopefully they catch the other guys and throw the book at them as well.
POT and Crime, imagine that, I know, it doesn’t say anything about pot. Get a life if you really think it was something else.
! Eye Caramba! El Denali es Mi favorito sin no exelarito? ! Caramba de Onstar! Estodas la Chinga! HEHE https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-cops-frustrated-with-sanctuary-laws-stopping-them-from-working-with-ice-over-twice-deported-criminal Appalling!
Amazing how the crooks know right where to go.
Right and who has 30 grand laying around too
I would GUESS the same guy who sold them 75-90 lbs earlier in the day. Just a guess. Know your buyer.
This whole pot robbery and chase smells a lot like a liberal ploy to attract attention to mistreatment of illegal asylum seekers. What better way than take one from front lines and throw him right into battle. We need limit these shutdowns to our government only not the highways.
Google Earth is like a menu. Just choose which grow looks good and hit it up. So common.
Try looking at it through honest eyes.
Shawn Cherry there are so many grow sites next to the freeway Easy to get to, easy to get away from. They did not choose this grow from seeing it on Google Earth.
I was waiting for someone to point that out. So much crime in the Triangle it’s disgusting.
Nothing good happens after 9 pm.
Some of you are so insensitive. This is a father and daughter… at a legal permitted grow. Assulted and robbed. Grow tf up with your childish comments. The robbers are lucky they made it off the hill and were found by the cops and not us locals.
Amen these low IQ keyboard cowboys need to grow up. 90% of them are lazy fat white guys in their 40-60s. PS. I’m white
Are you lazy and fat as well?!..you forgot to add self loathing so here ya go??
If the law is treated with contempt- as in voting for a stupid county sanctuary proposition and condoning- no glorifying- a hyper active black market – why should any other result be expected? It’s hard to maintain “sensitivity” to the victims of the repeated spread of lawlessness so created. The response of taking justice into your own hands is just one more racheting notch in the process. Getting angry at hearing another round of “I told you so”s apparently is not going to change where this is all headed.
So what is your solution? I hate that people are getting hurt and want it stopped. A climate of lawlessness with its accompanying violence to the populace, once it reaches a certain point, seem inevitable.
And this is why the prohibition of alcohol was ended. The civil costs became just too great.
Booze was still relatively easy to get because a thriving criminal industry provided it. If there are willing customers with cash in hand an industry will spring up to provide the desired product laws or not.
I personally knew two people that were murdered for pot because it was worth lots of cash. One of whom was a teenager my wife had taught as a kid. And these are just the ones I knew personally.
Legalization had to happen, the carnage has grown too great as has the public’s desire to use the stuff without fear of the law.
Complaining will get folks nowhere, use your energy to adapt and survive. The community needs you.
There’s no tax on medicine, right?
Taxing profit is akin to taxing success.
“Every man is independent of all laws, except those prescribed by nature. He is not bound by any institutions formed by his fellowmen without his consent.”
CRUDEN v NEALE, 2 N.C. 338 (1796) 2 S.E. 70.
Man is free to be unconscious – Ayn Rand
Well Barry, now I understand. Objectivism.
The masses at large will likely complain about the solutions… “Where are the solutions?” they will say….even though the vast majority do not even get the problem in the first place.
We either restore local government. Or submit to wor(l)d governance. The idea that the solution is more government, more regulation, more debt, and less risk is dangerously absurd.
Every right that is given up (waived) to imprison another, is one less that the whole has. That’s where we get the phrase “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
Ayn Rand: ultimate Libertarian (selfish) phony who accepted Social Security. Figures someone who is detached from reality quotes her.
Some of us talk out of both sides of their mouth with fork-tongue and foot inserted.
Jesus Christ, can you be accidentally right about anything one time? There’s no tax on medicine? There a tax on medicine in EVERY STATE IN THE FUCKING UNION.
You don’t know Jack.
I do not buy Big Pharma drugs. Did you happen to notice the question mark.
I don’t understand your point.
To my understanding, Meds are double taxed by the tax payers, but tax free for the companies.
The tax payers money is used to pay for the subsidies. The companies are subsidized by tax funds. The tax payer then pays the sales tax to the state who legislated the tax subsidies and sales taxes. The tax payers pay double.
Ayn Rand was a trooper against monopolies. She promoted prosperity over poverty.
She, however, failed to articulate to the dumbed down the concept of prosperity with moral conduct. Instead, she felt it was more important to let each person learn the hard way. Most still don’t understand the concept and continue putting blame on everyone but themselves. A few of her quotes clue us in though.
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. – Ayn Rand
IOW, prosperity, with a moral compass, is not self indulgent. It’s impossible to be self indulgent when you are creating jobs, building hospital wings, libraries, fund raisers for emergencies, and just overall good leadership qualities that inspires others to do better, be better.
That’s what good leaders do.
A bad leader blames you for everyone’s woes and hits you up for more labor and money.
There are millionaires, billionaires, trillionaires and even a quadrillionaire. Yet, we never hear complaints about that quadrillionaire. That quadrillionare is cleverly paying for the smear campaigns against the millionaires, who refused to sell out to the monopoly.
Ayn Rand hated monopoly.
QWERTYUIOP.
Remington Rand.
That’s a great comment and the way a persons life should be.
“The Great Depression helped lead to the end of prohibition because it promised jobs by legalizing the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcohol. Prohibition ended in the United States on December 5th, 1933 when the 21st Amendment was passed. This day is referred to as Repeal Day.” https://www.bing.com/search?q=why+was+prohibition+ended&PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN
It’s a satisfactory story that Prohibition ended because the citizens took control back from government regulators. Or in this case it caused too much violence. At least that’s the idea that Hollywood pictured.
In truth, it was was partially people’s love of their vices but it was mostly -like Bill Clinton’s campaign advisor put it- “The economy, stupid.” FDR won election based on the promise to end Prohibition and save the economy from the Depression.
It will stop when we form our own militia, with road stops and ID checks. Since it is private, we can pull their ass out of their rigs to check them. And why let them in?[edit] Every village, especially along 101, should be protected from these thieves. How many home invasions occur in wine country? Those winery owners have big bucks. Do they get invaded like here? Have village training for invasions, even have drills. It will only take a few punks blown away, and this problem should slow down. or, you can be killed, or severely hurt, and call the sheriff, who is an hour away. The govt is not the answer, private security and lead is. There are private security firms all all over the place, who patrol and can arrest. Just deduct their fee from your property taxes.
Very well said.
It’s coming. I’ve seen the movies.
So hum family, [edit] When true legaluzation takes hold weed will be almost worthless. how many hop farms get robbed now that beer is cheap and legal? I have zero sympathy for drug dealers getting robbed.
“When true legaluzation takes hold weed will be almost worthless.”
Placing the word ‘true’ in front of the word ‘legalization’ is like saying military intelligence or jumbo shrimp.
In case you haven’t noticed, today’s look-a-like nugs of all splicing and dicing modification, touting weird-ass labels, is what call worthless. The price is down, no?
shrimp.
So hum family- yeah right. You permitted paper-pusher compliant obeyers don’t scare anybody. Your threat of “they’re lucky WE didn’t catch them” holds no weight because it’s obvious you have all given up your local pride. If you hurt a thief you might lose your permit and it is very important for you to be very compliant. If you really had the old gusto you would have had a plan in place and you would have stopped the getaway vehicles. But you did not. Maybe you all were busy filing paperwork for your compliance officers? So you could blow up another permitted mega-grow, hiring potential thieves for minimum pay and then flood the underground market while your county protection looks the other way. It’s hard to respect the compliant and permitted paperwork jockeys when they make statements like yours. We all know you have capitulated and surrendered your outlaw creed to the county and state.
[edit]… If the Farm is legal we should not even be talking “pot”…. Who cares! The fact is these were armed robbers who were robbing our legal farmers. It does not matter if they were robbing lettuce farmers or cannabis farmers; both crops are legal and protected by the law! Time for people to adjust the psyches and perceptions to the current year 2019. It is not 1997 any more. Cannabis is legal, Cannabis farmers are a very important part of our local community and economy. The trickle down economics from our cannabis farms keeps our small family operated shops and stores in business. These legal cannabis farms are funding and sponsoring our childrens sports teams and Little League teams. The money from cannabis buys school clothes, pays for college educations, puts safe tires on our communities vehicles. Without cannabis Southern Humboldt and Northern Mendocino would be in devastating poverty which would hurt our local families. Everyone knows that poverty leads to higher crime rates, more home invasions, more robberies as well as more violence and domestic violence in poverty stricken families. Lets support our local cannabis farmers and cannabis industry. Who cares if a victim grows Fir trees or pot trees, they are our neighbors and community and as a community we should all stick together and say enough is enough to this discrimination and hatred!!
The “permitted” mega grows brought it upon themselves. Those people who came here and blew it up with large flats filled with greenhouses were not wanted. The locals who followed suit are in the same boat. The fact that the majority of “permitted” grows are selling on the black market while they curse their black market counterparts is what disgusts Farce as well as many other people. The fact that law enforcement has admittedly said they are going after black market grows because they are competition for the “legal” market also disgusts people. The fact of the matter is, if you are selling pot on the black market, permitted or not, you are breaking the law. The fact law enforcement is protecting these “permitted” farms instead of enforcing the law is disgusting. This whole thing is a disgusting mess which is why pot should’ve never been legalized in the first place and why law enforcement should’ve been actually busting grows for the past 20 years.
Let’s be honest fella they may be Legal farms but selling 80% of their product to the blackmarket makes them criminals. 90%of Legal cannabis farms in Humboldt will be outta business in the next couple of years from money laundering cases, don’t believe me just wait and watch
Farce, please don’t do this. You are sneering at people who made a different choice in life. Everyone is making their best guess on how to move forward based on financial decisions, their personal moral concerns, and their circumstances. This is hard for everyone. Please don’t make this about legal vs illegal. The hill folk are neighbors that should work to help each other. Using sneering nicknames is not going to achieve that.
You know that not every thief or even most thieves were captured in the old days. So hum family made a common threat (albeit one that I usually delete but missed) when a car is stolen or a house is burglarized or a child is harmed. It is part of the human condition to want to believe that the community is stronger than the breaker of laws (whether governmental or moral–thou shalt not steal…)
A foolish faith in [Legal} authority i what got us here.
A foolish faith that you can have your cake and eat it too is what got us here.
Because once you eat the cake, you no longer have it (in cake form).
potatoes, po-ta-toes
“Outlaw creed” LOL [edit]
And I mean that in the nicest way.
As in Bootlicker.
Thumbs up. Speak your truth and thank you.
My thought exactly! They must have gone out bell springs.
I really wish there were like and dislike buttons for the comments like on Facebook! Sometimes the comments on here are downright horrible. Yet other times they are hilarious.
Yeah. As if voting something up made it true or voting it down made it untrue. You can’t vote on what gets to be real. As if Facebook is any example of virtue.
so hum fam i second that ?what dumb ass commenters saying crap go back to lost coast outpost im a harris local& that was a good buddy of mine
There a short story addressing why suppressing speech just because you don’t want to hear it is such a bad idea- The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson.
I love you man. Keep your head up and get better soon.
At least one of them is going away for a long time
Thank you law enforcement and Harris community fir once again ,shutting down a home invasion.
One road in one road out .straight to prison
<"straight to prison"
Probably… out of jail by lunchtime.
Vigilante justice, just what we need from the So hum family, Is that banjo music coming from Bell Spring Rd
this is why we need a border wall and no O.R. or bail for illegal aliens
all the sanctuary law did was made it so that citizens have to assume every mexican, or spanish speaking person, is an illegal alien because our government wont tell us
The “Sanctuary County” ballot, was as superfluous as Meas. Z & O balloting. -Did anybody notice that there were no ‘elections’ in November – just misinformation for the willingly uninformed?
The Tenth Article in the Bill of Rights protects State’s rights – not City/County – it’s simply not within their subject matter jurisdiction. I MEAN, how in H are the Order Followers going to enforce such nonsense in only unincorporated areas? It’s at the Appellate level now, with a decision coming after the first of the year. Then Supreme Court bound. If Californians pushed an initiative for a State-wide vote that would have made sense. The fantasy of immigration being decided at a local level is fodder for fools.
“And Essential Necessities”
California Constitution
Sec. 25. Every law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace
but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title; and no
law shall be revised, or amended, by reference to its title; but
in such case, the act revised, or section amended shall be re–
enacted and published at length.
” . . .because our government won’t tell us.”
You’re looking at a corporation stealing the rights and wealth of the people.
What you’re delusionally seeing is government.
https://www.westernjournal.com/hermancain/wolf-blitzer-touts-dem-support-border-security-completely-embarrassed-wants-move/ 50 secs. Turn the volume off. December 21, 2018
Really Barry? Another “Christian conservative” news blog to quote from?
I know. I just threw it in there at the end.
You’re right Orange Sunshine. Focus local. Cling to our California state Constitution like our life depends on it – cuz it does.
1849 California state Constitution that is. Handwritten. Certified copies available from the State archives.
Christian Conservatives: the ultimate phony hypocrites!
Liberal hate mongers- the ultimate phony hypocrites.
MikeTokes quote: Trump pulled our troops out of the endless wars in the middle east, signed a prison reform bill, ended catch & release, launched the Urban Council to invest $100B in black communities and is working to secure our borders. What did Democrats do? Complain and resist?
How about this one?
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9083745-181/sonoma-county-to-pay-3
million to settle lawsuit over Andy Lopez shooting
What does that have to do with anything? You got triggered by seeing a Latin-looking name?
No by the reported request by the police for a Spanish speaking translator. That certainly increases the odds in favor of a criminal being illegal. It indicates not native born and criminality indicates not legal. It doesn’t mean that for a certainty but you’d go broke betting against it.
If immigration or illegality was reliably made public, it would end debate.
funny thing is i think the people voting for censorship of alien status probably didnt see it hurting them like this, legal aliens should have been outraged at the idea that illegal aliens shouldnt have to follow the rules. its not like people in california were being denied healthcare or schooling or even welfare
No surprise here. Many legal farms have websites that detail their exact location, and post things on Instagram that show every detail of their farm, from seed to harvest. No longer do crooks have to guess which dirt road to drive down and which address to try to hit. The guesswork is gone, the “legal” growers basically case their own grows for the crooks. All a thief has to do is type the address into Google earth and wait for the grower to post pics of their harvest on instagram to know when to hit. This type of thing will become more common than ever before.
Yep it’s definitely a corporation stealing the wealth from the people.the county has declared itself a theiving corporation!!!! They pretend there offering some kind of a service but they offer nothing in return.they only take!!! These supervisors and sheriff’,and the planning department are the enemy of the people!!!!
I think we need to make friends w/Honsal. Our brothers and sisters need education on the Supreme Law of the Land. That’s what’s lacking. Decades of indoctrination about copyrighted Codes. Knowingly, or unknowingly, a citation is issued because the victim trespassed on a copyright.
These are friends of ours and we are thankfull that they are alive. Stupidity at it finest. Law enforcement did a great job of responding and handeling the situation. We hope it sends a signal to future criminals that this is not tolerared. These criminals are lucky they did not cross pathes with local farmers. It would have not ended good for either side. Not sure what can be learned from this incident. Security is going to be an ongoing concern. Thanks for this forum
Looks like they caught a couple wild turkeys let’s hope these trouble makers will be doing at least 10 years in state prison.
Oh suspect is holding a shiny object and is not placing his hands on the steering wheel I am surprised that they did not yell gun and shoot him right away but I guess since they had this turkey right were they wanted him so lethal force was not needed but it sounds like this wild turkey almost got shot by the CHP.
There’s good and bad in every profession. Sounds like the good ones were on duty last night. I’m not implying that any of the CHP or Deputies are necessarily trained to shoot and ask questions later.
This guy is one of the best dudes on the hill. It’s a sad situation when one of the brightest lights in our community encounters a problem like this. Keep your head up and get well soon man…. your neighborhood needs you.
This County was founded by Genocide and Murderers;
Still some shootings and murders in Humboldt and Island Mountain area, but way less than in the 1860’s where entire villages were decimated by white men on horses carrying rifles and pistols. Taken from;
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 19, Number 2823, 13 April 1860
A correspondent of the Bulletin, writing from Eureka, March 31st, has the following ;
An expedition was taken by Captain Wright’s Command, a few days since, to South Eel river, which was reached after a most fatiguing march. A rancheria of Indians was discovered on the opposite bank of the river, and it being quite high, and no boats at hand, it was impossible to cross; so the company had to return home, but not, however, until about twenty rifles were tired into a canoe, laden with squaws and children, several of whom were killed. It is said that this was done contrary to Captain Wright’s orders, and one man was so disgusted that he pronounced all base cowards that had shot at the canoe. We also learn that a couple of ” bucks” were taken prisoners, also a couple of nice young squaws, while harmlessly engaged in nicking clover, which they were eating as a salad. They were taken into camp, and after having been under guard twenty-lour hours, the ‘* bucks” were taken out, tied to a tree, and shot in cold blood. We are informed that there was but one man in Captain Wright’s company who was cowardly enough to shoot the two bucks— who had been guilty pf nothing bi*t picking clover. The nice young squaws will be reserved for future disposition. So I learn by the gentleman from Eel river. The same party states that the oung man who has been telling all he knew about the late massacres has been sent into the Yager Hills, until the storm shall have blown over. From :https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18600413.2.8&e=——-en–20–1–txt-txIN-Boat+wreck+-eel+river——1
So you keep saying and saying and saying no matter how irrelevant it is. Your constant insisting on inserting your own limited agenda is a nuisance and a distraction.
I’m sad that community members have been harmed and sadder still that others have so little idea how to fend for themselves that they have done such a horrible thing.
If only we knew how and committed our resources to healing from all of the mistakes of our present and our past. Thanks for reminding me how we got here, Humboldt. Lots to heal.
I liked reading history of Humboldt – the good, the bad, and the ugly. How else can we learn from the past, and not repeat it?
You do realize that was a political news outlet don’t you? Their agenda at that time was to encourage gold miners & homesteaders (freed slaves) into Calif, among other things. The paper spent a lot of effort on assuring people that Calif was a ‘safe’ place to come to.
IOW, they were promised a ‘sanctuary’ state.
Open borders, the gift that just keeps giving.
UpCartel Human Smuggling of Mexican Workers into Humboldt County to trim pot for $50 per pound is not only destroying the work base for the people of Humboldt but it is also causing all sorts of crimes like home invasions and murders. People need to step up and turn these human smuggling operations in to the law. How long will we allow our work to be taken away from our local families and handed over to gangs who operate human smuggling operations and then rip off or kill their workers and keep the money. Attention Humboldt County Growers, if you are hiring Cartel and Human Smuggling organizations to trim your pot you will be searched out, hunted down and turned in by the citizens of Humboldt. We will no longer accept Human Smuggling Operations to trim Humboldt Counties pot. Hire a local, hire a family, but do not hire these groups of Mexicans who are hired by the Cartel and not properly treated or payed who are sometimes murdered by the cartel ….. Lets shine a light on this topic!!
This has been going on in a big way since Clinton cracked down on pot brought over the border. . . in about ’94. It was easier to bring in the people who had been growing for generations in their high mountain communities. At the same time NAFTA collapsed the price of corn for those farmers and took out the agricultural folk economy of Mexico. So they shipped people and methods and materials up here and took over the sites of the hippie “guerrilla grows” on public land. Some of the old guerrilla growers stopped growing on public land and others sold information and cooperated with the “cartels” taking in supplies and serving as scouts. After the Public Land thing became too much of a hassle (mostly) the Mexicans bought land here with the profits and started competing with “us” in a new way. I knew people in 2012 who were hiring the Mexican trim crews because they could get the work done for half the price. As in other California agriculture, the Mexican participants are part of the community but we like to pretend otherwise when something goes wrong or they work against our personal interests.
Oh, and those chemicals that are illegal here that those “ignorant” folk are importing into our country, you can look it up; they’re made in this country and shipped to Mexico.
Definitely need to build the Humboldt Mendo County wall. Too many Illegals coming from Mendocino. Taking Humboldt Jobs
Fascist corporate/MIC government, a gift that keeps taking…til there are no jobs, healthcare, education, or a peaceful place for citizens or those fleeing death squads. But let’s blame the poor refugees..That’s just..heartless, misguided and pitiful.
Refugees from what, their cartel bosses. Wake up.
I wonder if these are illegals working for the Southern Humboldt Human Smuggling trim crews… You know the “mexicans” who are driven up to Humboldt by white coyotes 25 at a time to trim pot for $75 -80 per pound, then the farmers pay 125 to 150 pp to their coyote who keeps 25-50% of the proceeds x 25 people. The Mexicans are kept on the hill to work and supplied by drivers who make supply runs in town…. This is happening all across Humboldt County and Mendocino, illegals taking the jobs of white trimmers and knockimg down the trim pay to under $100 per pound. This is one reason why our local shops are closing: trim machines and illegal mexican trimmers who will work for less pay and will work in servitude untill the Gang and Coyotes who smuggled them in are paid back. Humboldt County Sheriff needs to dig deeper in this situation and find out how these guys arrived, chances are pretty great that these guys were illegal aliens hired by their coyote who contract trims the crop taking nearly half the workers proceeds. This is how the gangs are funding themselves, human smuggling and indentured servitude. This is why so many people end up missing, the gangs will work them to death then shoot the vixtims and keep their salaries.
Do you have any, I mean any, proof that illegal immigrants are being shot by law evading employers? From these stories it seems that it’s the illegals doing the violence.
The only time I heard of this happening is when that pot grower shot at his employees, both immigrant and native born. He’s in prison now.
Its not “law abiding citizens” doing the hiring of illegals, the Farmers “Contract out the Trimming” to Mexican “buyers” who are actually gang affiliated, The Gangs then hire their Human smuggling clients to pay for their trip across the border. This is called indentured servitude, the illegal workers must then pay the coyote gangs back, they work in the pot farms for 50% of pay and the “organization” keeps the other 50%…. Times this by multiple groups of 25 trimmers each and there is potential for organizations to make several thousand dollars per day times 30 days a month = hume profits. The problem is these organizations rip off the illegal trimmers or kill them and then the illegal trimmers go after the farmers where they worked as only recourse. 50 year resident and I know exactly what I am talking about just like anyone else around here on the in, who knows what is really taking place, Surenos and Nortenos along with United Farmworkers trim groups are making a killing… Literally
Yep. And Asian. There have also been news reports of people being kidnapped and made to work trimming, harvesting etc.
….and woofers….
It really kills me when people brag about how little they pay. Maybe it kills them too. Not saying these people- I don’t know a thing about them.
I remember a guy shooting his workers at the end of the season. He didn’t pay them. Instead he shot them – somewhere by the Kneeland airport.
Yeah and that boy is white by all appearances. People concerned with human rights should be careful when making sweeping conjectures about ethnic groups. No way all illegals are working for gangs. No way all gangs are working illegals.
One of my sons-in law, daughter, and hence, two of my granddaughter’s last name is Hernandez.
illegal alien -words to leave behind. I don’t refer to BUMs (Bar Union Members) as alien. However, if any persons are unlawful aliens on American soil, it’s the bottom-feeder cult of lawyers.
Moneychangers. and,
Woe to lawyers and their enablers.
He did Not shoot them at the end of the season. They wanted to quit with what they had earned to date because he was not providing food. Instead he shot.
Thank you Guest for clarification.
Build the wall
Beaner Brains in action. The future is wide open.
Kym.
Everything we want is downstream. You guys obviously can see and know what has happened, and/or still is happening, and know it must stop – one way or the other.
It’s kind of scary that our cars can be controlled remotely now. People should take a clue from the heroin and meth dealers, don’t keep your money with your product and don’t keep either of them in your house. Pretty easy…
The truth is always simple.
Our Glorious Leader on Twitter———“OUR GREAT COUNTRY MUST HAVE BORDER SECURITY!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1076308614372048897
Nuf said
look at the resignations today. one could assume Monday will be even worse.
We can always hope.
So you don’t think border security would have stopped this robbery?
My thought exactly! They must have gone out bell springs.
Mexican illegals are doing agricultural labor and are being brought across the border by contractors who are profiting from exploiting them? Grow up, whiners. This is a sign that Cannabis is becoming normalized, like any crop harvested by Mexicans in the Central Valley, where exploited work crews are how it’s done. Work on getting Social Justice for Mexican workers, not on whining about how “Illegals are taking the jobs of white trimmers.”
The only social justice for illegals should be deportation.
Uhmmm…. there are plenty of White people making less than minimum wage right now. It has nothing to do with race. They will fck anyone over.
I’ve always been far left, but when we can’t take care of our own people, regardless of race, then maybe we should tighten the borders. Give DACA and PACA real citizenship- not some fake second class status, and severely limit new arrivals.
But we need un-documented labor. They can’t complain and have no rights. That’s why we want them. The bill of rights does not apply to them. Nor does OSHA. Slaves. Keeps the working class on their toes.
Right? I am so sick of people creating second classes for their own monetary benefit and cheating labor while pretending to be the heros of civil rights.
Amazing. Reading thru the comments fir my daily dose if humor. And whats this……..praise for law enforcement in the comments. Hoping the cops take these people out. Yikes. Judging from the derogatory comments le gets everytime they send a convoy to get rid of mega grow transplant mega grows if i were le I’d just say you guys figure this out on your own. Le putting their lives on the line out there.
When a dog/child/partner does something right they get a cookie. When they do something wrong they get a reprimand. Law enforcement is an unenviable job for sure but I think they’re tuff enuff to handle criticism now and then. A world without it can be summed up in one word that ironically rhymes with masochism.
Not to mention if this was a legal grow it should not be conflated with a raided illegal grow. Wherever u fall on that debate you’ll land on the cops doing they’re jobs.
I kind of like the idea of everybody living by the same rules.. IF someone knocks at your door, you open that door-one of two things happen at that point.. 1/ you ask who they are and what they want ( politely, probably.. not as cut and dried as i state it,,) or 2. they barge into your house, shove you aside, eat your food, make themselves at home on your couch, take over your cell phone, tv, radio,,whatever..Take your money for whatever they want, and expect you to leave and find yourself somewhere else to live. If you dont–you are racist, insensitive, greedy, right-wing–take your pick..
Even though our history is one of welcoming people from other countries, even when people were arriving legally via Ellis Island–they were documented given medical exams ( and denied entry if they were sick or contagious ), questioned, photographed, –I’m a nice person..and i assume you are too.. but i’m not stupid. I am a rule follower–i like the concept.. If there is a rule i follow it..so should everyone else–level playing field… how can this notion be bad? If a rule is bad..we can vote for different leaders, etc..