Operation Clean Sweep Clears Away 42,638 Plants, Says Mendocino Sheriff’s Office
Press release from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office:
[All photos from the Mendocino Sheriff’s Office]
On 07-19-2019 Operation Clean Sweep concluded in Mendocino County and a debrief was conducted which developed the following information about the operation:
Search Warrants served:
28
Locations of Search Warrants:
Covelo (Round Valley), Dos Rios, Woodman Creek (Laytonville), Iron Peak Road/Simmerly Road (Laytonville)
Marijuana/Cannabis plants removed:
42,638
Independent acts of Environment based Crime(s) observed:
603
Water diversion
Independent acts impacting Water Quality:
142
Independent acts impacting Water Rights:
197
California Department of Fish & Wildlife violations observed:
264
Observed acts of Environmental Degradation:
Water/Stream Diversion, Water Pollution from trash, pesticides and generator fuel, Illegal Grading of land to include the unnatural damming of watersheds (streams/rivers/springs).
Frog
Significant Wildlife Impact(s):
Foothill Yellow Legged Frog was observed in a stream that was impacted by an act of Illegal damming and water diversion. In June 2017 the California Fish and Game Commission voted to make the Foothill Yellow Legged Frog a candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act.
Arrest(s):
None at this time as cases will be submitted to the Mendocino District Attorney’s Office at a later date.
Participating Agencies:
Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, Mendocino County Marijuana Enforcement Team (COMMET), Mendocino County Search & Rescue, Mendocino County Probation Department, Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force (MMCTF), Glenn County Narcotics Task Force, CAMP (California Campaign Against Marijuana Planting), California Department of Food and Agriculture (CalCannabis Licensing), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California State Water Resource Board, California State Water Board, CalFire and the California Army/Air Force National Guard.
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Woop de doo . Didn’t even put a dent in it.
Supported by the corporate takeover of marijuana on the stock market worth billions if they could corner the market
The gov coming down hard on the cannabis now that it’s legal. How pathetic. All they want is there over inflated tax dollar, as they drive by the real environmental damages of illegal trailer tweeker villages with abandoned cars and trash. Leaving them alone.
Now you have noticed the problem that any businessman has. Once he seeks to use anything that brings him to the attention of the public like roads, water, sewer, advertising, etc, someone is going to want him to pay his “fair share”, not take too much, not interfere with other users, etc. And he becomes an easy target because he has resources to take. Little public sympathy is wasted on him .
On the other hand some member of the public (even if he’s a millionaire as long as it doesn’t show) can always generate sympathy when the big bad authorities cause him problems. Most people can identify with the individual enough to imagine themselves in a similar dilemma. So, even if he has a dozen derelict cars shedding toxic crap into the creek, we object to harassing him.
One big problem with the green rushers is that they want it all. They want to make lots of money, not be harassed by regulations and enforcement and still see themselves as an everyman of the public deserving sympathy and support. They are surprised when others don’t agree with them. A few would get a pass on that. A hundred thousand not so much. They lost their amateur standing.
Illegal marijuana growers are stealing the desert’s valuable water supply. They said that between 3 counties over 5 billions gallons of water have been wasted (or stolen) due to illegal grows. They also found 2 bears dead because of the chemicals.
Bingo
Did they visit the population of people turning Covelo into little Tiajuana? Heard its getting wild there.
All white market growers are selling on the inflated black market prices! Legal? I’ll let you decide…..
There will be a crash. Like any bubble. As soon as Federal bans are dropped, the grower will be like many other farmers- he will be in competition and no longer have a strangle hold on product because he lived in an area that tolerated illegal activity. The efficient will squeeze a profit out while the inefficient fold.
Most of the people that have been busted were brought in here illegally by the cartels. Sorry to tell you, the cartels are NOT white.
Seriously? Do you really characterize that as excessive grading? I was expecting to see ridges leveled and 4” water lines sucking out of the Eel.
That is an unbelievable number of water violations . This makes me feel so sad . Just keep getting the Real bad guys , maybe the little mom n pops who Do Care about these hills will survive . Who knows . ..
Get real they could find a boat load of water violations on literally any rural property. This is not about protecting the environment its more about that sweet sweet fine money $$$$$
As humans. We have to pay a tax and a right to have access to fresh drinking water on property that supposedly we own? Hmmm. Wonder if I get free government cheese with that?!
While your right, many rural living properties may have a water violation, the difference is stark.
On average I use less than 20 gallons a day for living.
Commercially grown cannabis farms use over 1000 gallons a day, some less, but many use more.
Let’s say that in these raids, even if all 42,000 plants only drank a gallon of water a day, that’s an increase of 42,000 gallons in the watershed today, and tomorrow and every day.
Most likely these 42,000 plants took over 200,000 gallons from the watershed every day.
At my 20 gallons per day personal use, that 200,000 gallons would last me 10,000 days.
Or 28 years.
Truth
TRB, actually your numbers are way off, maybe a very very large grow would use 1000 gallons in a day.. every day. For example, the FG, thier website states that for a 2500 sq ft grow, 65,000 gallons a year is needed! Which is tremendous and faulty reasoning based on nothing but hot air! I mean, I probably use maybe 500 gallons in a week, and that is over estimating.. in Late sept, oct I will use even less, maybe 250 in a week, so really what is needed is closer to 10,000 to 15,000 gallons of storage, realistically! Far cry from the 65000 they are stating is needed!
And household uses are usually closer to about 50 gallons a day, Average, w/laundry…
I don’t think so.
Your equation has no plant numbers.
You for some reason brought an estimate for a 2500′ sq ft. garden. Really, I dont know why.
Thats 25′ wide x 100′ long
Are you trying to say that these people had 1,500 plants in a 25′ x 100′?
You’re really missing the mark.
Now, go back to my point.
Do you think any pot plant lives through May, June, July and August with less than a gallon a day?
Try this in for size: my estimate is conservative.
I am willing to bet the majority of high plant count grows, are smaller plants, so yes a gallon a day is a high estimate for small plants.. I would say half that is used, like 1/2 gallon a day, or maybe a gallon every other day… at best..there are definitely a variety of factors. At those high numbers either way, it is a lot of water out of the water shed.. conquer… But, I just feel like your overhyping it a bit as well….
The reason why I used 2500 ft, is because thats the info on the CDFW site, and thier storage recommendations for a permit.. and an Average length and width of a hoop…
65,000 gallons a year for a 2500 hoop and I say, It is actually only like 10-15,000 gallons a year in prime time summer for a 2500 hoop.. or 500 gallons a week… (high estimate,and height of summer)
say 2500 gallons a month.. at the very very most, and that’s high.. so.. that’s like 15,000 gallons a year (6 months) per 2500sq ft.. 25×100 hoop..
15,000 gallons used per 2500 hoop per year…compared to the 65,000 gallons cdfw expects as a water storage!
As far as numbers per hoop.. good question.. maybe 100, 200 or 300 maybe 500.. somewhere around that many plants, probably 1/4 per plant every other day.. but the point is, I would say per 2500, it’s about 500 gallons per week.. how much per plant? Much less for smaller plants, more for larger..
So a 10,000 sq ft garden might burn through 1000 gallons a day, true enough… I still think that may be a high estimate.. however…
[Edit–try not talking to Brian or about him.]
So what you got the plants, you set out fees,(that will never get paid), why isn’t anyone getting arrested? They’ll just do it again and again.
What a nerd but your right
All the water use in Northern Mendo could be offset by tearing down the Potter Valley siphon, tearing down the dam at Van Arsdale, and returning all the water stolen from the Eel River by Sonoma County to Grow grapes for wine. The real reason the Eel is dry is because the Eel water is diverted to the Russian River in the headwaters which has destroyed the entire Eel River. Lets be honest about this…
Let’s get real the Eel river will be dry 5 months out of the year if you tear it all down! The Russian river will also run dry! They don’t even divert that much water! For almost 100 years that has stood! A new ecosystem has emerged! Potter Valley is a 35 million dollar plus annually in food and vines ! The water is way more than Sonoma!
And walmart uses 2 million gallons a day
Cannabis regulators should offer tax incentives for storing rainwater . incentives could work better than fines ,permit and legal fees .
Easy to Remember Formula: 1″ of rainfall over 1,000 sf will yield 623 gallons
Read more at: https://www.watercache.com/education/rainwater-harvesting-101
A 1000 sq ft of roof that receives 70 inches of rain can capture 46,310 gallons .
Don’t worry. A lot are trumped-up claims of violations by the water nazis. You could go onto any of these “regulators” property if they have any (and don’t just live in apartments in the city) and find a litany of “environmental degradations”. Does Scott Bauer have a water right claim, small domestic use registration, and a LSAA/1600 for his spring that feeds his house? No, he doesn’t.
42,638 ÷ 28 = 1,522 plants per warrant average
Hey Kym, any idea how much operation Clean Sweep cost the taxpayers?
At this point, no.
They need CLEAN SWEEP II!🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁
There is no need to destroy all in.your path. I.
know of quiet a few yabos that think it is funny to run their excavators basically non stop. Cut, clear, burn, scrape repeat. No plan.just clear it all. Plant a few hundred plants and a few hundred more for shitz n giggles, just in case. Them boyz love playing in the dirt running some pseudo “service” business. They will come over to your place and destroy it too for $100 an hour. Nevet mind the streams, slopes, ditches, vegetation or lifeforms. Lining the ole pocket is #1goal! F the future livin in the NOW!
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Do I hear 4500 a lb ? Like in 1987?
Such a small amount of information for such a large amount of raids! Wow.. I hope if smaller folks did get raided, they share thier story! These raids must be costing a packet! That’s a lot of Adgencies.. I am sure they are milking the OT as well.. actually at the end of the season/year, I think there needs to be a financial statement as to how much this is costing! And the NG particulated! I wonder what thier roll was exactly….
Are there any interviews from people what happened? I hope to hear from people who endured this monster raid! The Adgencies make look all nice and like, here’s a picture of a Frog we saved.. ‘We’re fing hero’s now!” I kinda wonder how endangered the frog is, and couldn’t it have just hopped away.. maybe the frog liked the pond… ponds are good for frogs.. Plastic isn’t though… Hype or Actually Enviro damage? some where in between maybe? .. Legalization the worst raids since the 80’s! Dreadful!
You, and MANY of the same old anonymous “bloggers” never seem to care about the incredible toll all of the last 10-12 years of mega green rush grows have caused our communities . Many neighborhoods have been overrun with these unconscious, uncaring, and destructive people that came from all over the world. They have caused egregious environmental damage , rerouted water courses, polluted the soil, air and water and poisoned some of our beautiful wildlife and played hard core against their neighbors . FOR YEARS , We all have turned a blind eye to this creepy DESTRUCTIVE behavior. People have finally had ENOUGH of this unhealthy, unsustainable shit and are happy to finally see this Egregious crap get shut down.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” -Edmund Burke
Perhaps you should not have turned a ‘blind eye’. Get to know your neighbor and teach them.
The State is very happy you are relying on them to solve your problems.
Trying to work with neighbors who don’t care about the problems they cause is how people end up being arrested for murder. If they care so little about their neighbors that they dismiss the problems they spread to them in the first place, the most likely response is going to be that what they do on their own place is no one else’s business. And then blame you for the problems they have in turn. One of the main reasons government exists is to get between people so that the resolutions of disputes is not violence.
E.D… I think that the contention between Private property Rights, Corporate Adgendas, Humanitarian rights, and Environmental Crusades are all clashing here in the Triangle in a very Tectonic way… No doubt the Mega Grows are destructive, and there is egregious environmental destruction happening.. I also think good people may be caught up in the fray, and that is my concern.. It’s the fact if your a small entinty, and can not afford or live up to the extortive practices outlined by the Canno Control Board, your now automatically labeled as a “Environmental Destroyer” Eventhough you may have lived sustainabley for years.. Just down the way, people are getting permits for larger Environmentally destructive Grows, and then using the Government to extort thier smaller more eco friendly neighbors… That is also bad policy! It’s also bad policy, in my opinion to “eradicate cannabis” thru militaristic raids.. is that not how the situation got here in the first place? I understand and sympathize with your concerns… Definitely there are problems… I just think there are better ways of dealing with issues then blind sided..all inclusive..Militaristic Raids… That is also DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR in my book.. But your wrong, I do care.. And I oppose mega Grows that are too large for the Ecosystem they are in Legal or not. Actually there are a lot of bad example Grows In the area, I see that.. as well for sure.. Some very terrible players.. that is also true..
Permitted mega grows are horribly destructive yet the County is allowing and encouraging people to install giant industrial grows right along the rivers – Planning Department Just approved Xotic Flavorz’s request for a million gallon pond less than 1000 feet from the Mattole River – how is that good for the environment? I guess if it is being done by Rex Bohn’s son and his associates, it’s okay to wreck the watershed ….
In some of the Videos of legal pharms I have seen, some of the very large 7 acres grows or what have you look like they are very close to the river.. talk about nutrient overload, but a ridge top Pharm.. True sinners! Even though the nutrient run off is far far from the river…
SmallFry- Well said! I heartily concur. And I have commented from that position since the days that we were reading Kym’s blog in LoCo. Often I was argued against by people who wanted to shout me down while they insisted there were no destructive mega-grows, only wonderful mom n pops growing a small 200 pound crop. Then when Google satellite images were released they went suddenly quiet- Ha ha Ha! It’s a shame that mostly the worst environmental destroyers got to get the permits. Now they do terrible stuff with the blessing of the county and state. And the true mom n pops get hammered along with the ugly mega-grows that we should have run out a decade ago. And Estelle wrings her bloody hands while she bullshits about a new program to make permits easier for small people- ha ha ha! And government collaborators meet on Fridays for kickball games in the park. What an epic shitshow!
Very true Farce, The Permits are nothing but THE Chuck The Environment All Access Pass!! @ The All exclusive Mega Grow resort and country club!
Stewart’s of the environment need not apply.. It’s the Grow destructively fan club!
No mention of the home grown meth problem. ..?
Let’s not forget about the home team now…
No just moms and kids carrying five pounds at a time.
Meth heads are not considered enemies of the corporatocracy!
Methdicino! They need a brochure.. come tour Trailer Mazes and hacked up old cars! Be sure to wear a respirator and a bio suit!
Families, Moms and kids wit backyard grows.. were definitely the problem!
Funny thing is those people are the ones that are getting the go ahead to go legal. Those people are the only ones who have the thousands of dollars to go thru with the severe costly regulations. So nothing is changing. They just drill another Well to suck water out of the watershed and keep getting bigger and bigger. Using all the money they have buried somewhere to get bigger. It’s a joke, the big illegal farmers are being rewarded for their illegal growing for all these years and the moms and pops that grew a little to get thru the year and took care of their properties, had a beautiful veggie garden and fruit trees, and love their properties had to pull out of the game after putting all the money they had to start the process only to find themselves broke. These are the people who take care of their schools, volunteer fire company’s, who are considered part of their community. The big guys are only here for the $$$$. Still sucking our rivers dry, And do nothing for our community.
Totally TDavey! Very true!
Silent weapons for quiet wars.
It’s probably not a surprise what people are doing with permits, is it?
Nestle bottling company sucking the water out of the ground at an astonishing rate over near shasta…..where’s the phukin people bitchin, about a few thousand plants and a 1″ pipe in a stream.
This is the sheer hypocrisy that makes no sense when people think that it’s not a problem when a corporate entity does it for profit.
That’s why we can’t seem to be effective at all this bitchin, and moaning.
Except when it comes to individuals making a profit, not paying the right people for that purpose.
We are so phuked….
Hang together
Hang Apart.
This is the public private partnership we’ve been warned about
If I recall correctly, Nestlé got a 100 year lease on the spring in McCloud at a cost of $0.01 per gallon. Retail at what? A dollar a quart?
That’s exactly the kind of water diversion we need to look at. ..right mister Rover?
Blame the serfs for having the dream of financial freedom shoved down every orifice, since day one, and not question the corporate (greed /profit/shareholder/ goVT subsidized) model that has done way more destruction than any single grower in the area…. ( ok, I don’t know any huge growers)…
But driving down the Interstate 5, I can smell cow shit miles before that farm… dusty dirty stinky, but clearly not illegal….
Yep. 70 billion dollars a year that once was spent among citizens, spent in local stores and divided among friends and family is now being funneled to government and away from humboldt and nor cal. It’s pretty apparent earth day doesn’t live on humboldt co. If so, you will see that this place is turning into a ghetto before your eyes. There will nothing but a Walmart and streets full of beggars thieves and junkies. Ask any business owner how stamping out all these dirty growers has helped them in the last 18 months.
You need to check your facts. Nestle backed out of their plan to build a bottled water plant at Mccloud ten years ago. The old mill site they were going to use has since been sold to another outfit.
Thanks for the follow up.
I remember when the people of the community stood up to Nestlé.
Maybe the best example is how Nestlé almost got away with it in McCloud.
It was to prove that corporations feed on the natural resource at penny’s on the dollar, and do massive amounts of irreparable damage to the environment.
It was an example, and I do remember the people pushing back and they were united and successful.
The Netflix series on water shows the next level of corporate control of water.
Large and ultra wealthy powerful people tapping into the Aquifers in the state, transferring it through miles of pipe to their respective properties.
That’s what we need here.
More awareness of the larger problem affecting the average family.
Definitely more awareness is needed SID! It sucks too, Huge grows approved in the middle of the desert in Hot huge buildings that will need to be Airconditioned all the while Draining the Aquifers, which are very slow to replenish… Really sucks!
And I can tell you, if I was trying to yield bigger on 6 big plants, I would be using more than 20 gallons a day.. not referring to anyone in pericular.. just in General… Hmm Hum hmmm…
Nestle is a horrible permitted water robber! Ty for the info, I will check out that doc on Water on Netflix some day!
Sounds like you need the church.
If you want bigger plants, you need to file for tax exempt religious status.
Also, have a holy-water delivery truck bring you sacred h20, Fish and Game cant track holy water, it’s in their bylaws.
https://kymkemp.com/2019/07/15/2000-plants-eradicated-on-three-parcels-near-hyampom-by-marijuana-enforcement-team/#comment-836942
Thanks. I lost track of the story… Nestlé pumps from the Mojave instead.
https://www.rt.com/usa/172764-nestle-california-bottling-plant/
The way most large multi nationals operate.
Someone, will always take pennies on the dollar for the people’s resources.
After backlash nestle pulled out of the deal.
https://www.nestle-watersna.com/en/nestle-water-news/pressreleases/nestlewatersnorthamericawithdrawsmccloudprojectproposal
Thanks.
They pump out of the Mojave instead.
https://www.rt.com/usa/172764-nestle-california-bottling-plant/
Not one picture of a plant or greenhouse? A couple gas cans and a frog? Hmmm things sure are different now
I have also noticed the lack of trophy photos as well lately. Perhaps they don’t want the “evidence” they are collecting to be seen until court?
13 agencie$ ! How impre$$ive.
Time for new representation!!!! The way they tax us and then spend OUR money against us extorting as many of us as they can,stealing our constitutional rights,water rights,right to a peaceful existence.
Just wait . They are working on outlawing home grown veggies, farmers markets, hunting, and even a tax on your wood burning stove. They want you to be 100% dependent on the government to “take care of you”. This includes your right to defend your self n family. Don’t worry though…”free” healthcare, apple i-tracking device and government cheese will be provided. Be patient, because the lines are long.
I’m not from these parts, I’m out of the loop. I see an indirect crack down on veggies (no greenhouses) and in some cases direct (smart pot Tom). But attacks on farmers markets and hunting and wood burning stove taxes?! Very curious.
“They!” The infamous “they” that are always seeking nefarious control over innocent people. I wonder who “they” are? Could “they” be government workers? Could “they” be environmentalists? Could “they” be the politicians? Could “they” be a public tired of trash? Who are “they?”
Pepe the frog on camera backstroking in the creek. Nice meme DFW keep it classy.
where are the egregious violations? Are they keeping the juicy pics for themselves to look at in the privacy of their bedroom? No pics=it didnt happen
Once a neighbor put in a water bar to divert water into his ditch. I took a shovel, took off the top of the water bar to allow water to follow its old natural course. His piling up was 5 feet long, 8 inches high. I took off less than 8 inches on three feet. Not dramatic to look at but what a difference.
water bar? you mean the basic drainage feature to drain the road surface so that it does erode away and deposit fine sediment into the creeks? A real hero you are. Give yourself an award.
Legalize drugs. Execute criminals. Problems solved!
Whadaya mean “no”?
I hope all the small mom and pop growers that were harassed come forward to report officially the damaged and stolen property. It’s one thing to cut plants and issue fines, it’s another to treat civilians in a military manor while destroying their home over 16 plants.
Nobody will because they do not want to be a target for speaking out… repercussions are real with leaders like Allman im charge, community is living in fear
Mendo county doesn’t care about the environment. This permitted mess 200 feet from headwaters of the creek to the right just inside the tree line.
Sogh…
That is outside of the states defined riparian buffer… totally legal. It is also on level ground, which means little runoff potential…
The COMMET team was so nice when they showed up. Just very nice clean cut young men. They were very strong and in shape. They didn’t like the way I decorated my house though, I’ll have to redo it. Also must have thought my food was bad, they threw it on the ground. They fertilized my lawn too, with my 12 Cannabis plants. They didn’t seem to know how to operate any doors or gates either, or fix what they broke. I’m afraid those nice young men must not get paid much, they took my small amount of cash from my nightstand and split it amongst themselves. They did leave my first aid kit to clean the scrapes up, I’m sure that young man didn’t mean to set me down in the driveway so firmly. I just wish I would have known they were coming so I could make them lunch.
If you would like to talk to me about what occurred, my email is [email protected]
Hello Kym; I guess there are two poor farmers making comments on your site. I do not comment much and when I do it’s usually about the Constitution and or its LAWS. Just wanted to say this comment was not mine.
Sorry, there isn’t an easy way for me to tell as people sometimes use other computers. You might try using The REAL Poor Farmer.
I can vouch for that system!
Though I’m already prepared for a Fake Real Brian…
Keep using the same email address and I’ll probably notice.
I love change, so “prepared” was code for ” I can’t wait”.
Maybe alter ego’s
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important t●●!?
Two black hawks and a lakota just headed back to Redding over Platina.
Sheriff Allman is after assett forfeiture $$$$, his business as usual, robbing the community at gun point with home invasions aka raids… , he nor the county care about the environment or wildlife… Check out their “Wildlife Trapping “”killing” Program… We need your help to urge Mendocino County to permanently terminate its contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services (“Wildlife Services”) and implement a non-lethal program for addressing human conflicts with wildlife.
The County is accepting public comments on the program alternatives before it makes a decision on the issue. The County needs to hear that you support a non-lethal program ensuring that government agents no longer use snares, traps and other cruel methods to kill wildlife. Because taxpayer dollars subsidize the federal government’s Wildlife Services program (e.g., the “Integrated Wildlife Damage Management Program) and wildlife is held in the public trust, we all have a say in this issue (you do not need to be a Mendocino resident to comment on the DEIR).
Help end Mendocino’s lethal wildlife management program!
Mendocino County has released their draft EIR (“DEIR”), which analyzes the environmental impact of their current lethal management program and a proposed non-lethal alternative. You can find the DEIR here and the documents referenced in the DEIR here. For more information about the DEIR and the public comment period, go here.
Please let the County Board of Supervisors know that you support the non-lethal alternative. There are several ways to help:
Submit Written Comments on the draft EIR by August 12.
Comments are due by 5:00 PM on August 12, 2019. Please see sample talking points below. You may email your comments to Ignacio Nash Gonzalez at [email protected]. Alternatively, mail your comments to:
County of Mendocino
ATT’N: Nash Gonzalez, AICP Recovery Director
501 Low Gap Rd, Rm. 1010
Ukiah, CA 95482
Attend County Staff’s public input meeting about the DEIR on July 24th.
You will have an opportunity to speak in favor of the non-lethal program alternative – or just attend and show your support. The meeting is scheduled for July 24, 2019, from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. The meeting will be held at the County of Mendocino Board of Supervisors Chambers, located at 501 Low Gap Road, Room 1070, Ukiah, California, 95482.
Submit a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.
Letters urging readers to show their support for a non-lethal program by submitting written comments and attending the public meeting are crucial. Point readers to this link to learn more: https://www.mendocinocounty.org/home/showdocument?id=28692. You can also find tips for writing letters here and talking points below. You may submit your letter to one or more of the following papers:
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Wow, Master Mason Allman our 33rd degree Masonic Leader is also an environmentalist, yeah right, this is nothing but another ruse by Sheriff Allman, ” We even saw The Yellow Legged Green Tree Frog”, like Allman really gives one rats ass about the tree frog, I think everyone can see that this is nothing more than another ruse by Allman to try and gain support for his failing war on Cannabis Culture in Northern Mendocino County… Allman Doesnt care about tree frogs, he cares about asset forfeiture and all the money he can steal for hos department by violently and aggressively using the tactics of armed robbery and home invasion for what are essentially code violations… The County Supervisors dont really care about critters and the environment, for years they have paid State Trappers to kill hundreds of bears, mountsin lions, raccoons, foxes and other wildlife to support people like Allman’s “hobby ranches”. This is a violent war being waged against our small mom and pop cannabis farmers, not trespass grows, not foreign gang grows, small mom and pop grows whose children are being put in harms way by violent militarized goon squads who have their trigger fingers on the trigger. Allman is nothing but a backstab and a trader to his community. Shame on you Tom, you have decided to persecute and harm your community once again, I wonder how many people Tom and his goons will hurt or kill this year with their little war games Mr Allman likes to play against his community, how many family pets like dogs will be shot this time Tom? How many children will be sent away to Toms friends pedophile Foster Care homes? How many families will you destroy this year in your quest for power and fame Tom? We all know wby you dont want the Sheriffs Eradication report on the agenda, because then there will be room for the community to show up and tell the truth, because then the supervisors can question your aggressive uncalled for antics. You are a pawn and a schill Tom, plain and simple. You spew hatred and lies while you persecute our community all the while driving up the prices of put which will mean more trespass grows in the future, good job a$$hole Tom Allman, how many citozens did you and your goon squad steal from the home of this summer, thief
Look, Tom’s a public official and as such I allow quite a bit of latitude in wild accusations. But any more of this without proof in the next couple of days will just get deleted.
One heck of a job description.