Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department Kicks Off Multi-Day Operation Yesterday in Burr Valley Cannabis Raid

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On Tuesday, 08/01/2017, two search warrants were served in the Burr Valley area by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Eradication Team. The following violations were observed on property #1:

Storage and removal of solid waste
Unapproved sewage disposal system
Construction of building and plumbing codes
Grading without permits
Use of mobile homes or trailers as place of habitation
Violation of commercial medical marijuana ordinance
The following violations were observed on property #2:

Junked vehicles/junk yard
Unapproved sewage disposal
Construction of building/structure in violation of building, plumbing, and electrical codes
Grading without permits
Violation of commercial medical marijuana ordinance
This is a multi-day operation. For officer safety reasons, the information being released to the public at this is limited. There will be an update of the operation after it is completed.


Earlier Chapter: Humboldt County Sheriff Serves Marijuana Search Warrant In the Burr Valley Area Off Hwy 36

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Silverlining
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Silverlining
6 years ago

Just awful. How will the Earth heal?
By the way the photos were nice but can you post one with a violation in it?

jrwhitmore
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jrwhitmore
6 years ago
Reply to  Silverlining

Unpermitted is a violation. No different than building a home or business in downtown without permits. And yes, there are plenty of violations outside of the permit issue.

Sadtruth
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Sadtruth
6 years ago
Reply to  jrwhitmore

Sure you are right, now lets see machine gun weilding thugs kick in doors in downtown for permit infractions .

Silverlining
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Silverlining
6 years ago
Reply to  jrwhitmore

Ya,….that’s why people move to the country.
To have to get permits for everything as if they were downtown.
Do you ever read what you write?

Buzzards nest
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Buzzards nest
6 years ago
Reply to  jrwhitmore

Ahhhhh thats all of humboldt. Many castles built with no permits. Your point is……?

Government
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Government
6 years ago
Reply to  jrwhitmore

I like money

Sal
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Sal
6 years ago
Reply to  jrwhitmore

I support MEDICAL. Medicinal. That’s healing. Still not legal with the FEDS. Hang on—-. Massive confinscation of land to come!!! Just sayin

Perspective
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Perspective
6 years ago
Reply to  Silverlining

It will heal when you stop supporting agribusiness, oil companies and electronic companies. It when heal when you vote with your dollar and protest large corporations by not giving them any money. It will heal when you start walking and riding your bike. It will heal when humans are dead.

WC 666
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WC 666
6 years ago
Reply to  Perspective

It will heal when all bs grows like this are gone. The sooner the better.

Diesel DRW - Curb Weight 7762 lbs
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Diesel DRW - Curb Weight 7762 lbs
6 years ago

What a disgusting, freaking mess.

No fine will be large enough.

I can only imagine how many other crappy grows are in existence out 36. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves, and I hope these photos are used in cannabis marketing as examples of what kind of product to avoid.

I can’t wait until Cannabis is grown on actual farmland by professional farmers who actually care about the product.

Really?
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Really?
6 years ago

Are you joking? These pictures show relatively clean sites compared to what is often depicted… No trash mountain (or worse, trash being buried or burned). No uncontained diesel, no dep plastic strewn about in pieces and tatters.

ghostown
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ghostown
6 years ago

What? Like conventional farms growing pesticide laden produce? I’m not seeing anything in the article that’s suggest the use of pesticides or chemicals in this grow op.

Silverlining
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Silverlining
6 years ago

You should actually read what you comment about.
I suspect you don’t care at all.

earth first
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earth first
6 years ago

I think they’re being sarcastic every1

Diesel DRW - Curb Weight 7762 lbs
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Diesel DRW - Curb Weight 7762 lbs
6 years ago
Reply to  earth first

Sarcastic? You break the law, flout it actually. Build a structure from plastic pipe and plastic sheeting, grow it and many others full of commercial quantities, throw the garbage all over, and it’s a “business”? You whine when someone gets busted? Oh it will get better when….

Rationale from people on drugs always reads the same. You’re a pot farmer. So I guess you are actually right, no matter what. Ridiculous.

Roll another one. Smoke some meth, shoot some smack, have a xanax, 15 beers, smoke off a pack of Camels… You’ll feel better.

Dope farmers have destroyed one of the most beautiful areas on earth, because they are greedy. That is right.

I can’t wait until your livelihood is run through the chipper, your cash seized, your land confiscated. If I had my way, your pickup would be crushed too!

Dope growers are assholes! Big bunches of babies!

Go home, start a real farm, get a real job. Stop pretending the pirate thing will last…

broksi
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6 years ago

the grow looks pretty clean from the photos.

Sick of hbc
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Sick of hbc
6 years ago

I think it looks good also what you can’t stay in a rv and you can’t have junk vehicles in your yard and be glad they have a septic system there’s a lot of people that just have a pit of raw sewage in humboldt I thought this was America

Meebee
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Meebee
6 years ago

I don’t see the gross violations described in article…and is that a photo of a tree fort?

jojo
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jojo
6 years ago
Reply to  Meebee

yes, there is some garbage on the ground in front of the tree fort, also the tree fort does not have permits and will required and engineer to certify that it was build to codes. These seem like a bunch of petty charges to slap on someone.

humm
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humm
6 years ago

If see a massive clear cut. Maybe herb needs to go to farmland, before our forests Hydrolic system is permanently ruined. What would the Lorax say?

Sadtruth
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Sadtruth
6 years ago
Reply to  humm

Massive clear cut ? I see 3 maybe 5 acres of someones property that has been made useable, now if you want to see massive clear cutting drive around some logging roads

jrwhitmore
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jrwhitmore
6 years ago
Reply to  Sadtruth

Attempting to defer to another issue. The Liberal way. No permits means none of it is legal.

Sadtruth
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Sadtruth
6 years ago
Reply to  jrwhitmore

No i am merely pointing out tjat permit issuses arent enforce in any other field with machine guns and destruction. Instead it is certified letters and fines . Not machine guns helichopters and people acting like warriors hiding in the woods .

Geust
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Geust
6 years ago
Reply to  Sadtruth

Here is an example, yesterday in Yuba County, why LE goes in armed and ready for the worst. Always the possibility of a grower hopped up and strung out on MJ.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7264778-181/deputy-pulls-colleagues-to-safety?artslide=0

Bunsley Rubber
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Bunsley Rubber
6 years ago
Reply to  Geust

“strung out on marijuana” completely ignorant statement, reefer madness syndrome at its finest

Geust
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Geust
6 years ago
Reply to  Bunsley Rubber

Where there’s smoke there’s fire. May I link you to another article that shows connection between MJ, Xanax, Methadone, Opiods, etc.?

https://kymkemp.com/2017/08/01/weed-like-to-see-what-you-have-in-there-deputies-discover-mobile-marijuana-van/

visitor
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visitor
6 years ago
Reply to  Geust

That was not an eradication effort. The folks that own the property called the cops on a “trimmigrant” that was threatening the folks.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article164753172.html

Geust
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Geust
6 years ago
Reply to  visitor

Collaborative “Grow scene” environment.

WTF
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WTF
6 years ago
Reply to  Sadtruth

So you volunteering to go out and give citations to unpermitted grows?

Sadtruth
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Sadtruth
6 years ago
Reply to  WTF

No need to even go out just as other companies are treated post the gates send letters fine and file leins on property and holdings, no need to guns, when you come at people with guns they will in turn use guns on you, it is simply a matter of equal treatment. Hell look how many times caltrans breaks enviormental laws , there arent task forces with machine guns ripping out work completed half the time they get the rules changed or settle out of court and proceed, but no gun play, yet they are breaking the same rules/laws

Silverlining
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Silverlining
6 years ago
Reply to  jrwhitmore

Butt hurt because even after Trump has won still no one loves you or your racist ideas?

WC 666
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WC 666
6 years ago
Reply to  Sadtruth

The difference being the logging companies get a permit.

Sadtruth
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Sadtruth
6 years ago
Reply to  WC 666

By permit you mean pay the king money so that you may use your own land, and of course the king hires people to ensure you pay, they must make sure you do or else they wont get paid, see the problem, lazy ass people sitting in chairs in offices demanding a cut from other peoples back breaking work ….

Silverlining
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Silverlining
6 years ago
Reply to  humm

It’s called a meadow.

Notbuyinit
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Notbuyinit
6 years ago
Reply to  humm

Where is evidence of a clear cut? There’s standing trees scattered next to every hoop. Using trailers or mobile homes as a place of habitation? Since when is it illegal to live in a mobile home? Why aren’t they down in eureka clearing tweakers out of trailer parks then?

Veterans friend
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Veterans friend
6 years ago
Reply to  Notbuyinit

I think you are exactly right. People have just gone nuts.

jojoj
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jojoj
6 years ago
Reply to  Notbuyinit

you need to look at the property zoning. Trailers are not allowed to be the main residence. They have the be an accessory of a real house, logic is that the house would have a full septic system and permited residence and then you can have trailers on your property.

Jack Straw
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Jack Straw
6 years ago
Reply to  jojoj

Easy for a townie or city person to say. Much remote land is used for hunting or recreation or get-away-from-all-of-you (retreat) or woodcutting or small logging and it may take 3 hours to get out there. I have a place like this that I then stay on for a couple days in order to actually be there and work productively. Am I supposed to build a code house w/ full septic?! Or will the city-fied paperpushers of county government allow me to actually camp in a tent on my own land while I cut my own firewood? Do I then need a full septic system with inspectors approving each step which of course needs a water supply that is then also permitted and registered and inspected?! Can I please have a trailer to stay in since I also cut firewood sometimes when the weather shifts? Can I use an outhouse I built on my own land to cut my own firewood ? Where does it end? I get that the weed growers have ruined everything but many of us are here working hard just to enjoy some privacy and rural living!

Silverlining
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Silverlining
6 years ago
Reply to  Jack Straw

The grape growers are banding together in Sonoma County to fight the new regulations as being to great a financial burden.
Tempting to say ” I told you so,” to those who thought they were not next in line.

Shake Well
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Shake Well
6 years ago
Reply to  jojoj

Hahaha! Where are you from?

Keith coronado
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Keith coronado
6 years ago
Reply to  jojoj

Yes jo that is correct. They had no main dwelling structure on the property.

G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago

If you applied for permits and haven’t been approved and your growing, I think your next!!!

Geust
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Geust
6 years ago
Reply to  G-MAS

…….. is the message that they are trying to send.

hmm
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hmm
6 years ago
Reply to  G-MAS

If you havent been continuing to work on competing the permit and have gross violations.

Sadtruth
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Sadtruth
6 years ago
Reply to  hmm

Gross voliations, spoken like a true goverment official.

Stay Tuned
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Stay Tuned
6 years ago

Violations of medical marijuana permits. You wanted it legalized and regulated. Now your complaining. Make up your minds , folks.

jrwhitmore
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jrwhitmore
6 years ago
Reply to  Stay Tuned

Exactly…..!

Jack Straw
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Jack Straw
6 years ago
Reply to  Stay Tuned

Right? Isn’t “legalization” just great? Enjoy!

Jack Straw
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Jack Straw
6 years ago
Reply to  Stay Tuned

I am pretty sure that tree fort was built without a permit! It doesn’t even look like it’s up to code. And where is the approved septic system for that tree fort??!!! Yes- the county willfully looked the other way for a decade as huge grows blew up countywide….but now they are ready to fully do their job!

Be-Gawk!
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Be-Gawk!
6 years ago

Egads! It’s an unpermitted chicken coop!

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago

Looks pretty clean in these photos? Wonder what put them on the radar? I’m sure they drove past way worse to get there.

Shawn Cherry
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Shawn Cherry
6 years ago

Agreed. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. With legalization come regulation. Lotsa folks changing their tune these days. Most finger pointers have the worst grow sites, and are hoping they’re not next. Shut up and clean up!

holt
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holt
6 years ago

Excellent bust. One a month, now one a week- maybe soon we will be reading one of these stories a day. Great job law enforcement from all agencies.

Brian
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Brian
6 years ago

Deputy pulls colleagues to safety during Yuba County marijuana farm shootout

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7264778-181/deputy-pulls-colleagues-to-safety?artslide=3

How do a couple whities in Sacramento get away with representing a “Rastafarian church”?

They’re charlatans. Notice his kings chair in pics, fake gold im sure, but what a dis gusting vomitous joke.

A week ago Kym reported on a briceland area raid on the same “sugarleaf” brand “Rastafarian church”:

https://kymkemp.com/2017/07/20/blm-and-the-humboldt-county-sheriffs-convoy-headed-out-briceland-thorn-road/

Devils Lettuce Crimes
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Devils Lettuce Crimes
6 years ago

I hate what lettuce heads and their huge grows have done to this county. But…I think most of these “code violations” paperwork is a load of crap too! Go in, cut down the plants and chip them, bury them with tanks like C.H.U.M.P. says and move along to the next grow. This writing people up for using an outhouse(!) or living in an unauthorized trailer(!) or not bending to every single regulation that was intended for people living in town in close proximity is quite an evil and stupid development. I’m sure the biggest scenes are “owned” by phantom LLCs and nobody will ever be “responsible”. If you want to change the behavior of greedy lettuce growers you must demonstrate that you will take down many of them, in efficient manner- not just a few and then bury those few in paperwork and fines. Again- Roll in, knock down, destroy profit motive, roll on to the next grow. This is just another version of lazy, ineffective fake eradication.

hum baby
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hum baby
6 years ago

is there a website one can look at and see who does have permits?

Stay Tuned
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Stay Tuned
6 years ago
Reply to  hum baby

Nope. The list is no longer publicized. Unless you know someone that has it, you won’t find it.

Devils Lettuce Crimes
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Devils Lettuce Crimes
6 years ago
Reply to  hum baby

Only a few actually have permits. Most are saying “we have permits” but they only filed an application for a permit. As always it is a confusing web of misinformation and outright lies promulgated by Lettuce Heads and their greedy criminal associates

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
6 years ago

And they ignore places like this:

Country Grown
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Country Grown
6 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

lol. There is no gutter connect greenhouses in humboldt with weed in them. Guaranteed.

I get your point though.
Also that pic doesn’t have weed in it. Looks more like 🍅

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
6 years ago
Reply to  Country Grown

Yup, tomatoes. Glad you got my point.

Sadtruth
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Sadtruth
6 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Because those places have corperate lawyers that would tie them up in court and cost them untold amounts of money just to prove their case, far better to bully around the small and mid sized folks who are just trying to make it, maybe even enough to support the fees and fines to go legal in the future.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
6 years ago
Reply to  Sadtruth

That’s the truth of it. It has nothing to do with ‘Justice”…..

Jury nullification.

Shake Well
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Shake Well
6 years ago

Most of the “violations” on their list could be used to describe almost any place outside of town in SoHum, and some of them in town.

Jack Straw
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Jack Straw
6 years ago
Reply to  Shake Well

Obvious cases of “selective enforcement”. I have no respect for this. Get their weed, get them for environmental crimes, serious water diversions but this chickenshit approach deserves resistance and mockery.

Sadtruth
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Sadtruth
6 years ago
Reply to  Shake Well

And most county and state yards as well. Just look at any road construction project and you will see the same id not worse larger fuel and oil spills then what have been shown in the last few months as well.

gunther
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gunther
6 years ago

I wonder why growers, instead of paying $500K for a 40 acre parcel here, don’t go down in the Sacramento or San Joaquin Valley and buy or lease a couple acres of actual farm land? They have real soil and irrigation water available.

Sadtruth
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Sadtruth
6 years ago
Reply to  gunther

Because most grow to support a quite peaceful life away from people, that is why they are out in the hills in the first place.

gunther
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gunther
6 years ago
Reply to  Sadtruth

Yeah, those Bulgarians love nature.

Squeaky
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Squeaky
6 years ago
Reply to  Sadtruth

Are you being sarcastic? My gro-bro neighbors are not interested in anything but a quick buck with their 24-hour/day generators, fans, lights, traffic and armed robberies – everything they do disrupts my quiet peaceful way of life in the hills!

gunther
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gunther
6 years ago

I doubt that’s a tree fort. It looks more like an elevated shooting blind. Have to keep the deer out.

Silverlining
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Silverlining
6 years ago
Reply to  gunther

Looks fenced to me.

Jbdy
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Jbdy
6 years ago

Dog house buddy

binbeareda4
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binbeareda4
6 years ago

half the folks chiming in here wish they had a site this clean,,,the other half probably do,,,,,,ob-la-dee

Hum
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Hum
6 years ago

Wow. I feel SO much safer now that this super clean grow is cut down. Great job, HCSO! Let’s go for the wineries next! And then the dairy farmers! And then the veggie farmers! Down with the growers.

Seems like an awesome idea. Let that meth and heroin flow but stop anything that grows.🙄