Armed Robbers Stole Cannabis and Vehicle in SoHum Sunday
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s office is searching for two armed robbers that stole unspecified amount of cannabis and a vehicle in Southern Humboldt today about 3:30 p.m. According to a bolo sent out over the scanner, two masked men broke into a residence on Arthur Road near Garberville. The men were armed with an unspecified handgun. They left the premises in the victim’s vehicle–a silver 2008 Ford F150, license plate #10699Z1.
If anyone has any information, please contact the Humboldt County Sheriff’s office at 707-445-7251.
Below is one of the bolos broadcast over the scanner.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
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Im telling you. This wasn’t as prevalent when weed was illegal. Workers actually got paid percentages and made thousands a month. Nowadays they are paid 25$ an hour while legal scenes make millions on the black market, than wonder why there peasants rip them off. This will only get more common. Good job California. I’ll let “cannabis is legal” take over from here…. lol
You just made a pretty wild assumption that these dudes were trimmers . My guess is they were shady buyers that knew the victim , maybe did a deal with him a few times and knew where he keeps his pounds . Finish carpenters in some states make less than 25 bucks an hour
What assumption makes u think that? Who in the fuk pays trimmers 25 bucks an hour? Better yet, who in the fuk trims for 25 bucks an hour?
Just because people weren’t reporting it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t happening.
I’ve been ripped off by 3 permitted farms. I got paid in the underground from mom and pop small farms
Even regular legal jobs get ripped off. No difference. Looks like better hiring practices, along with references are needed. Random folks= bad idea.
You got to be kidding. Robberies of weed has always been the story in the tri area. My guess is that they are reported less than they were in the past.
People have been ripping off Golden Pitbull forever….
Not as much as you think, we let potential thieves know they werent welcome. I used to call the stories Humboldt grimm fairy tales, like how good a body decomposes in an outdoor shitter and such. Just warnings woven into a story. We watched out for one another and warned about certain folks. Anyone not recognized on our road were stopped and asked whom they were visiting. If they couldn’t answer they would be escorted out.
Plus there wasnt an easy to get list of growers complete with addresses and names of every grow. Legalization has made it a 1000 times easier to find grows&those growers homes thus its 1000 times more dangerous, hands down.
Back in the day we went after thieves and to be honest i rarely heard of these types of robberies, with masked gunmen gang style. It was way more common for a buyer to rip you off. It was more scary to have the cops come, they terrorized everyone even small children, pointing automatic guns at their temples and shooting our pet dogs in front of the kids. For 6 plants, maybe 2 pounds worth.
Hey thieves we still have some good techniques & eventually youre gonna come across the armed growers and end up in a hole.
Legalization has made growers targets.
Heres to the black market, long may the true outlaws survive!!!!!
You’re literally putting your family in danger by going legal. Dont do it!!!
YOU MUST BE NEW TO THIS AREA IF YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE YOU ARE SAFER OPERATING IN THE BLACK MARKET.
It went from thievery of wet from the bush, to dry from the house..
RE: Gov’t Cheese… $25/hr in your dreams. Not in this County. It’s more like minimum wage to $15/hr before taxes with zero job safety or a healthy respectful work environment. The good people got pushed out by the corporate a$$hole ideology types. They’ll blame it on taxes, fees etc but their bottom line comes first.
$25/hour is beyond outlandish.
Decades ago I would get paid 50$ an hour plus a percentage! Ahhhhh the early 90s…..just a we lad then….bought my first house in 1 years pay. I’m not talking about trimming either!!!!
Minimum wage goes up to $15 an hour in 2020, which is a few days. I find it hard to believe that permitted farms will be able to find people willing to do back breaking labor in sweltering heat for minimum wage. Especially when they could work at the in n out IN town and get paid the same amount plus benefits.
THIS WAS MUCH MORE COMMON WHEN CANNABIS WAS IN THE BLACK MARKET, ONLY DIFFERENCE IS NOW YOU HEAR ABOUT IT BECAUSE LAW ENFORCEMENT IS GETTING INVOLVED. -FROM A HUMBOLDT LOCAL WHO HAS SEEN FAMILY & CLASSMATES DIE WHILE CANNABIS WAS NOT LEGAL.
Most people in the rest of the country would be delighted to be making $25 per hr.
It’s BS. Most local trimmers aren’t making $25 pr hr. Some are making less than minimum.
California license plates usually have this type of formatting: 6TPW000 to 8NXW347 (as of December 27, 2019) i.e.: Number, letter, letter, letter, number, number, number.
Was this incorrectly ID’d as a CA plate? Maybe an out-of-state plate?
Not commercial plates. 00000×0
The Bolo says California license plate.
Right, But the plate number must have been reported by a witness. Figured it may have been misread or hastily copied. But now, I realize that the plate number was Truck-Formatted. DUH. Thanks to Snake for the correction. Apologies to all.
It’s a truck. They have different number and letter combos than cars
Or they have a canopy installed and license it as a car
My buddy did that years ago, he got pulled over for rolling through a stop sign, the cop saw an empty garbage can in the back, inside the canopy, and wrote him a ticket for not have a commercial driver’s license on the truck.
,…not driver’s, but vehicle license
Good Call.
Most trucks are considered commercial vehicles in CA and have different license plate configurations than most other vehicles.
Not a pickup it is number letter 5 numbers or in the reverse
They are obviously killing it with a 2008 truck in the yard. Captn crunch doesnt own a pick em up truck……
Well Another Damn E and an accomplice sounds like Harris st .
Free cheese
All my trimmers were making almost 20 grand a month.
Must have elders trimming .
All your trimmers? 20 k a month? So your 20 trimmers made 20k?Or 20 k a piece in a month? In my books, trimmers are not “workers”, there trimmers. Yes, they get paid 10% at 150 a P. Far better than the soil huffing, tarp pulling workers of today. Asians are the best trimmers ever! Make Spaniards look like snails.
Trimmers “are not ‘workers’ “ in your books? That’s crazy right there. You have a lousy business plan or are extremely vague on the concept or are completely phony from the get-go.
Everybody working in the business is a worker. Every employee is a worker. Any other rationale is just an excuse to screw employees. Pay scales may vary, but “worker” applies across the board.
If *all* of the trimmers are @ 5 lbs pr day that is by shaking it dry in a box and grating leaf off the sides and bottom of a grated bin, or hand skimming before trimming and breaking up medium bud. Most likely loosing 15% at best, possibly 20% of total yield. Which is why people pay more for shake nowadays… lots of broken bud chips.
15% of 1000 = $150 lost. Plus $70 or $100 whatever it is you *actually* pay them pr lb. I doubt you pay them $150. But maybe you should. $70 + $150 lost = $220 at best. Possibly 20% = $200 lost + $100 paid = a cost of $300 pr lb.
What comes around goes around. Not to mention that money paid to immigrant workers does not stay very long in the community. Trimmers used to go a long ways in supporting local stores & economy. Not so much anymore.
The fastest conventional trimmer I know, who no longer trims, could do 4 1/2 lbs pr day. She was faster than anyone else in a room by far. Most trimmed 1 1/2 lbs if they were fast AND if the bud was good. She cheated a little, but not too much. Not many can come close to that. If an entire room of people are putting out 5 each every day then it’s not by conventional means. Might as well dry it crispy and throw it in a trim machine for what you get.
If you haven’t spent an entire day sitting down and trimming right alongside your trimmers then I don’t think you can tell me how they trim.
$20,000 a month. Really. Can I fill out an application? But I’m not the fastest, – maybe 1/8 of a pound a day… will that cut the mustard?
That’s 5 lbs a day 7 days a week all month. Not very feasible for the amateur or even pro for that matter!
Let’s see. $20,000 a month, that’s $5000 a week, $714 a day working 7 days a week. At $200 a pound they would have to trim approx. 3.5 lbs per day. At $150 a pound you would have to trim 5 1/2 lbs. per day.
Even at the $200 rate, I find it hard to believe someone could trim 3.5 lbs. per day and keep that up 7 days a week. Also, I can’t believe it would be any kind of a decent trim job, unless a high trim machine was being used with the trimmers cleaning up, I could see them zipping through the buds…….
Your on one if you think 3.5 units a day isn’t possible. I paid about 20k bi weekly in trim fees for years .I seen one dude from Spain trim 4-5 units a day for months Straight … and when it came time to pay every one bi weekly he would have the biggest stack oUt of them all. And it was a clean trim job ….The “trim mom “ or “trim pimp “
Is the business to be in. You get a cut on everything they trim .
I done four units a day before but that’s like starting at 5 in the morning and stopping at 9 at night and that was nice stuff to work with
Sure….
Local.. Damn, can I apply? I’ve been trimming for 13 years and this year is the worst! White legal facilities are down to 25/lb. I’m not making shit! Oh and btw Jerry, 3.5 lbs is totally doable by a seasoned trimmer. And it’s even good quality, not too leafy or shaved.
20G a month? Come on. You must of had exceptional wages & huge easily trimmed outdoor plants that had buds the size of like arms, nice even buds that didn’t require breaking down tops into smaller pieces to avoid the angled cut stem & had little leaf to snip out. Cut, snip, snip, done, another arm in the bag. Outdoor back in the day looked like mini trees full of money.
I’d love to come work for you if you’re accepting applications, I have good references & I keep my mouth shut. Even if it’s only $10,000 a month now, I can start immediately.
I grew up in so hum, & made a few thousand per month as a teen in the 90’s. $200 a lb made for 1,200 to 1,500 weekly though $700 weeks happened.
Rare were the days more than 1.5 lbs of indoor could be done, a lot of indoor I saw was often tedious to trim, sometimes I had a 2 or 3 lb day(s) but that was if the buds were bigish & leaves few.
This seems closer to reality than some of the ridiculous stats quoted by others. Still, not bad for a teenager anywhere, any time. Hope you never forget as you move through the vagaries of life. Hope you saved some of that cash. OK, now I’m crazy. Too soon old, too late smart.
$20,000 per moth?
Excellent.
Where do you keep the cash?
Nothing to worry about.
B.S. . Never happaned. Those are the fairy tales people come here looking for and instead leave with a meth addiction . Try $130 a pound trim scenes that are lucky to average them upwards of $20 an hour if they push themselves to the limit.
Mean while the growers constantly try to manipulate you into running packs back east for a chance at real money. Trimming blows now adays. No greedy grower would ever pay anyone that well. People are too envious now adays of any comeuppance.
The first worst weed ripoff that ended in murder was in Salmon Creek when Cathy Davis was murdered . It was such a shock and blow to our whole southern Humboldt community. Now it’s hard to even keep track of them.
THAT YOU HEARD OF…..
i once had trimmers who could trim three and half lbs of my worst stuff in a day, a 13 and a half hour work day…
amazing canadians…
Exactly what I’m saying. Maybe local pays $500 a lb
I know someone that can-no lie-trim 8 lbs a day consistently that also looks good..self contained worker too..! She is also super kind and feeds the whole trim scene when she gets paid! She is one of my heroes!!!
We’ve been robbed 2 times, once in 2014 and another last year. We didn’t report it because we were afraid of our addressed and location being posted would bring attention, ie, more exposure. Plus, why would the police try to investigate and help the folks they despise the most, they think cannabis growers are the reason why there are so many drug users in this area ? (nothing to do with doctors prescribing opioids…). This is the general sentiment in the law enforcement culture along with not worth investigating the murders, especially of a black person. Both times , our suspicion was that it was clearly someone that knew the nuances of our operation, including where the cameras were and how to get though a secluded location. In one case, our suspects shows up a month later with a brand new Toyota Tundra with a trailer after we know he did not have a dime, and had not been working. We work blood sweat and tears for every penny we made, never got a handout from parents, have small children, and always paid our employees very well. We still pray for your wellbeing and we forgive. the universe has blesses us with good health and prosperity, and we are grateful for every moment. DOnt let these awful moments encompass your person. continue on warrior and may the higher force bless the good and the karma police take care of the rest. This really sucks, it doesn’t seem fair, but I feel worst for the thieves that have to pay all this energy back throughout their human experience. respectfully yours
[edit] Puts tracking devices on peoples cars and follows them to break on to them or steal mail with corrupted police officers. The threat is real. Cannabis is legal. Much love people. Ill start a blog and address more issues.
Corrupt police using software from google to persecute minorites. Fake democrats, police using civilian gps to steal from hard working people. The threat is real. Yes the rakeetering cases are going to be monumental. Release the prisoners and lock up corrupted officials. KILLARY KKKLITONSSSS LAST STAND!!!!!
The only threat I see is your word salad compressed into a ridiculous paragraph.
I had a trimmer that could trim 20 pounds a day. That is after he made 3 meals a day for all the other trimmers and did all of their laundry. I paid 500 a pound, had a crew of 50. You know, back in the day when no one got ripped off…
This is an example of how ridiculous these comments sound. Jesus folks, get real…
I bet that person fed the guard dogs and did the dishes too, LOL!
That was AFTER giving everyone a back massage…
Who killed jfk??? The people did!!!!!
Did I mention that I gave my workers a 50% cut of my earnings? Oh yeah, and paid their airline tickets, fed their dogs and let them all move in. Yes, those were the days….
Thanks for the laughs. I needed that after reading all this crap.
What is Time?
Cannabis is legal.
There u are “cannabis is legal”
What I think is funny is last 15 comments on this story had nothing to do with the story itself. Hahahaha. Straight up, legal weed has caused more local crime. In years past it was commonly known that you were risking your life to enter someone’s grow or residence to steal their pot. And yes it was a whole lot less that it actually happened!!
Yep Shawn, in California they want to disarm the citizens ,make weed legal and pass laws that enable thieves with no jail time! Yeah….. that should put a halt on crime! Lmfao
The biggest rip off crew in the triangle these days is the Humboldt county government!!!!!!
Word!
“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.'” — Harry Browne
Don’t blame me I voted for Bud.
I worked for [edit] He paid me in marijuana put tracking devices on my car and is now being investigated for rakeetering.
I would love to know who. Sounds familiar.
Yes the police pay in weed put tracking devices on your car and then steal it from you.
If the county really wanted to make money and there is supposedly 15000 grows or there was and the smaller grows paided 20g and it went up from there…20g x 15000 would be 300 million. Only a 1000 or so have been permitted then the county shuts its doors. So it seems they don’t want all that money as they make it almost impossible to get permits with the rules zoning deadlines and snails pace of paperwork. 300 million could help/change this poor county (more police in rural area less poverty etc) but seems like the county and supervisors are afraid of losing their kick back money or their personal interest and afraid of sales competition. The weed is worse now and robberies are going to be more common due do low wages and abrupt firings because farm owners needed help then didn’t want to pay. A 20% farm manager to a $12.50 an hour farm manager today.
Haha, everybody pulling out their internet weaners trying to claim title to being the biggest dog on the mountain. What a bunch of fools.
What a joke. Barely any tresspass grow busted. Permit farms were out dozing in full force expanding and building more heavy infrastructure. Wear and tare on our roads with machine operator’s. The smaller ones got hit the hardset. The mindset of the dtf is a low level of integrity. Same tactics from drug war. Time to go back to guerilla. Small patches low light to flower sooner small plants put in august. takes more time to find and eradicate less time to grow don’t get greedy keep on trucking.xoxo
Agreed. A good friend put in this one patch so late this year- August 20th. Pulled 25 pounds by Halloween. Probably still an additional 30 pounds to trim- late Wedding Cake (never do that one again)! Anyways…guerrilla, on logging land. old-school style, way cheap, teas. We will destroy these corporate permit people. They cannot go as low as us with their taxes and CAMP fees, etc.. It’s a new war and we will win this one too!