$36,000 in Cash, 854 Marijuana Plants, etc. Seized When Search Warrants Were Served at Three Parcels Yesterday

This is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:

$36,000 cashOn August 16, 2018, deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) served three search warrants to investigate illegal cannabis cultivation in the area of County Line Creek Road. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Humboldt County Environmental Health and HAZMAT Unit and the Humboldt County Planning and Building Department assisted in the service of the warrants.
Three parcels were investigated during the service of the warrants. The parcels did not possess nor were in the process of actively obtaining a commercial cannabis permit with the County of Humboldt.
During the service of the warrants, deputies eradicated approximately 854 growing cannabis plants. Deputies also located and seized approximately 91 pounds of processed cannabis, approximately 141 pounds of cannabis shake, three firearms and over $36,000 cash.
Assisting agencies found the following violations:
– Seven stream crossing violations (up to $8,000 fine per day, per violation)
– One water diversion violation (up to $8,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Nine water pollution violations (up to $20,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Two depositing trash in or near a waterway violations (up to $20,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Failure to label hazardous waste (up to $70,000 fine per day, per violation)
– No lids on hazardous waste (up to $70,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Failure to establish a Hazardous Materials Business Plan (up to $5,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Commercial cannabis ordinance violations (up to $10,000 fine per day)
– Improper storage and removal of solid waste violations (up to $25,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Grading without a permit violations (up to $10,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Building without a permit violations (up to $10,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Sewage violations
– Junk vehicles violations
Jeffrey Hendrich, 53, and Franklin Jackson, 43, were cited and released on scene for the following criminal charges: cannabis cultivation, possession of marijuana for sales and conspiracy to commit a crime. Additional violations with civil fines are expected to be filed by the assisting agencies.
Anyone with information about these cases or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.pounds of marijuana marijuana greenhouse marijuana pond

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Corrupt extortionist rip off turncoat politics
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More extortion and thievery and lies I’m sure by the county!!!!!!!

Sam Bennett
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Sam Bennett
5 years ago
binbearda4
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binbearda4
5 years ago

ripped em off and let’em go,,,fucking new age “catch-N-release”

MISCONCEPTION
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MISCONCEPTION
5 years ago
Reply to  binbearda4

They will face consequences.

Dog
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Dog
5 years ago

Going behind the green gate finally? Brave of them….

weedageddon
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weedageddon
5 years ago

no permits = no plants.
(cue up the pac man death sound)
https://youtu.be/vahZWULCvjQ

Old Humboldt
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Old Humboldt
5 years ago

For those curious, County Line Creek road is off Hwy 36 and along the Mad River, about 5 miles SE of Dinsmore. There are more than a few greenhouse and open outdoor grows around there and highly visible.

other guest
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other guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Old Humboldt

hip to the road itself, any idea what property got popped?

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  other guest

one at the end of a dirt road up off salyer mad river road after ridge road. the county must be cherry picking these raids. its at the end of a road with dozens of grows that are obviously not permitted with major grading. the pond appears between 2005 and 2009 on GE and no grading other than the pond. numerous ponds in this area. this is a tiny grow compared to whats on the road they saw to get to it. you can see the rock above the pond on GE to confirm the location.

LostCoastEMT
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LostCoastEMT
5 years ago
Reply to  other guest

800 plants on 3 parcels? Lmao. Wonder what would happen if they hit a “real” grow. Come on cops. You know where the 10,000 plant greenies and 1,000,000 in cash is at…. don’t you?

It's a Farce
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It's a Farce
5 years ago

BFD. That entire Mad River watershed is blown up over there. 3 places is nothing but a drop in the bucket and that is only THAT area! Just follow your Google satellite pictures along the Mad River from Rt. 36 north. It’s crazy blown-up and actually…pretty disgusting. That’s what 15 years of not doing your job at all will do- yeah, looking at you Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. Now you finally actually catch somebody there and you…cite and release them back into the garden area? Okay yeah- everybody’s scared Ha ha ha! CAMP did 20X as many gardens EVERY DAY for years and still only got about half. And that was when we had about 10% as many grows! So yeah- keep pretending and keep your jobs program going. That’s all it is. Well, that and a price support system. When you start doing multi-day sweeps and staying on-site to get early starts every single day then maybe you will earn our respect. Right now every grower worth his salt is laughing at your theatrics! Ha Ha Ha!!! We all know those ridiculous civil fines will not stand up in court. Greenhouses alone will not be a reason for warrants. Absentee property owners are not responsible for guerrilla grows on their land. The logging companies and large private landowners will stand with that legal reading and your big scary fine strategy will unravel, leaving you with nothing. John Ford will resign in failure and disgrace. Y’all let it get way out of hand. Should have shown some muscle back in ’07 or even earlier. This train has left the station! The underground market will always undercut and undermine the corporate sell-out compliance market. Ha Ha Ha!!!

Tweasel
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Tweasel
5 years ago
Reply to  It's a Farce

You act like the sheriffs department makes the laws…..they are enforcing the law to its extent. Did you forget you live in California?

This Is My Name
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This Is My Name
5 years ago
Reply to  Tweasel

Did you forget when Downey made multiple public comments stating that they, the HUMCO Sheriffs Office would no longer (HA!) be applying resources to deal with cannabis grows, unless the complaints were plentiful and damages egregious enough?

I know of a handful of busts that occurred between 2009 and 2016 in my old neck of the woods. Those were only busted….by DFW/Fish and Game, nonetheless….because of multiple complaints and plain visibility of those growers’ pumps running all day/nite draining the last drops out of their respective creeks/streams with salmon pools being reduced to shallow puddles with no connection to the main water courses. Lots of people throughout the season were actively transporting them by bucket out of the creek and into the river to give them any semblance of a chance at survival.

Farce has it pretty spot-on.

Clean Scene: Also a good comment Notice how the sheriffs did not take any photos of spilled oil or trash heaps, etc…My only real concern, and this is as someone who tries to take care of their tools, is having the generator and pump exposed in full sun. How hard is it to build a ventilated enclosure???

It's a Farce
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It's a Farce
5 years ago

Thanks to the people moving the fish! Thanks to those who didn’t pull extra water in that drought! Thanks to those who turned in the fish-killing grows! Thanks to those who grew and used some of that money for restoring our watersheds! The greedrushers were never friends to us or our communities. They used us as cover as they destroyed the scene for their own benefit. I was here and I saw it happen.

Clean scene !
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Clean scene !
5 years ago

Where is the damage inflicted by these outlaws ? These photos show a beautiful pond and a tidy miniature grow .

Malory Duchess Archer
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Malory Duchess Archer
5 years ago
Reply to  Clean scene !

The parcels did not possess nor were in the process of actively obtaining a commercial cannabis permit with the County of Humboldt.

and they be tossing their Gatorade containers on the ground. you want ants? this is how you get ants!

Legal grow
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Legal grow
5 years ago

Actually one of these properties was “in the process” and have a tiny grow. It’s super weird these tiny grows got hit

LostCoastEMT
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LostCoastEMT
5 years ago
Reply to  Legal grow

Not really weird. They just forgot to pay the man!

evin rude johnson
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5 years ago
Reply to  Legal grow

that sucks. tiny grows could be the backbone of the economy in the future. like 18 of them per household. 😉 if they had paperwork in the system they need to file a civil suit. aint there one fledgling attorney ready to change the World? maybe advise these scenes to invest in a garbage can or two with lids.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Clean scene !

There’s no crime, just commerce.

Corrupt extortionist rip off turncoat politics
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Agreed clean scene. New age rip offs.

Alt right the turd reich
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Alt right the turd reich
5 years ago

Clean scene and that pond has been there for years it looks like. It looks like a couple if hoop houses and a small pond…

Scooter
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Scooter
5 years ago

Looks like a brand new pump.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

Another misinformation “press release” – hoo raw for the person drawing a paycheck from the people’s public treasury typing such nonsense.

FIVE agencies “served” three search warrants “to investigate” = an illegal, unlawful wrong action with intent to do harm. Who’s the witness to this “crime” that signed an affidavit complaint under oath w/penalties of perjury and took it to a judgie wudgie for signature on the issued warrants?

A fishing expedition isn’t what a warrant is.

Ullr rover
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Ullr rover
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Agreed.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

How this town got rid of the real criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_GGCgFij3s 6 mins. August 4, 2018

Corrupt extortionist rip off turncoat politics
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Good spread it’s a farce. Burn in hell Estelle and planning & extortion DEP.

Anne D.
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Anne D.
5 years ago

That $36,000 they stole should about cover the payroll of the however many agencys it took to rob those poor saps then cite and release them with empty pockets.. As for Jeffrey and Franklin… Damn bros… Fools and their money are soon to part.. I mean it aint right but it is obvious the game their playing, if you are foolish enough to keep 90lbs processed and 36K on site for any time at all..
I dont know what to tell you. In this day and age i wont process on site… And i definitely wont keep cash on site EVER

Oh and 3 points to the Duchess for comment of the thread.. Ants, great! Now See what youve done… Now weve got ANTS…

Zippy
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Zippy
5 years ago
Reply to  Anne D.

Well we all know and I now finally the FBI knows because people are reporting it now that the $36,000 is only about 1/3 of what they got this time. In the past it is the same thing. Lawyers are now reporting it to the FBI and there will be a big sting in the not too distant future. Maybe even this is the one. All these thieving fat pigs are going to go down.

weedageddon
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weedageddon
5 years ago
Reply to  Zippy

Get the FBI involved? There goes another 2/3 of the cash into THEIR pockets.

Anne D.
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Anne D.
5 years ago
Reply to  weedageddon

Lol

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  Anne D.

even with the lid on the bottle. its important to use the brain.

47
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47
5 years ago
Reply to  Anne D.

Ants… that’s why we can’t have nice things… 😂😂😂😂

Anne D.
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Anne D.
5 years ago
Reply to  47

😉

Corrupt extortionist rip off turncoat politics
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Yeah baby that’s the real story,. Thieves with badges,and political power!!! ( For now)

47
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47
5 years ago

The second oldest and second largest gang in MurKKKuh

Tug
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Tug
5 years ago

The only way the county can make money is fining people who grow a harmless plant. But they catch and release a heroin addict. This county is fucked.

Silverlining
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Silverlining
5 years ago
Reply to  Tug

I know right?
Redway has an entire homeless town or several of them just outside of town.
Code enforcement not interested.
I wonder why?
Money maybe?
Supposedly there is a giant pallet structure just north of town I got a glimpse of coming back from the dump when the light was just right.
It looked really big, definitely a code violation and it’s on property owned by an LLC.
I’m sure the local businesses here must really love it when they come into town to loiter around they’re stores.

dont chip me bro
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dont chip me bro
5 years ago
Reply to  Silverlining

An impromptu pallet structure is no challenge for the HCSO wood chipper! The HCSO aint got time foe dat. The LLC property ownership is one key to successfully warding off code enforcement. LLCs with PO boxes don’t pay fines.

Dave Kirby
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Dave Kirby
5 years ago
Reply to  Tug

How do you feel about the tweaker growers who are tail gating you in their grow dozers because they are in a hurry to go nowhere? I frankly will not miss them when they are gone and it won’t be long for many of them.

This Is My Name
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This Is My Name
5 years ago
Reply to  Tug

Indeed, Tug…indeed. The last three summers, I’ve gone elsewhere. I can’t stand the place at this time of year. When the rains come and it’s time to burn, I’m there, it’s home. When it gets dry and the grow-bros come out of the wood-works/meth-shacks, I high-tail it to greener pastures and try to be more frugal than the rest of the year.

I love SoHum in the springtime.
I love SoHum in the fall.
I love SoHum in the winter when it drizzles
but fuhget about it in the summer

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
5 years ago

Has anybody tried the nacho fries at Taco Bell? I’m not convinced they conform to the county’s best practices guidlines for cannabis cuisine

Fummins
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Fummins
5 years ago

Easy come, easy go. Next!!

Emily
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Emily
5 years ago

Definitely not their best day… 36 THOUSAND dollars, looks like about 30 lbs on the hood of the car (yet they stated 91 lbs- no way that’s what is on that hood!)
Oh well they are trying to make it look good to protect their jobs. I’m not sure who is the mastermind behind this massive expenditure of tax dollars, but they might want to find someone else.

Corrupt extortionist rip off turncoat politics
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This story is called ” as the money and economy moves elsewhere”. You transplants will be crying a different tune in a couple years when there’s no work here.when half the buissnesses are boarded up,when the line to social services is wrapped around the corner and down Broadway.when the crime rate for theft has tripled.when addiction and alcoholism is 4 fold.youll miss the neighborhood grow dozers.

Dave Kirby
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Dave Kirby
5 years ago

You forgot to mention the exodus of people that’s already started. The unemployment rate in CA is the lowest it has been in 40 years. Can’t see many staying and collecting welfare or ripping off their broke neighbors. This area has boomed and busted several times during the past and most moved on to greener pastures when the economy contracted. Suspect that will happen again

Fummins
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Fummins
5 years ago

And when the property prices decline and stabilize, so people not of the green rush grow mentality can afford land of their own…….

Dave Kirby
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Dave Kirby
5 years ago
Reply to  Fummins

Have already had inquiries from tourists about buying their place in the country. I suspect in a year or two real estate will become affordable again as a lot of rural property’s sale price was based on the ability to pay off the note with the proceeds of cultivation. Suspect some owner carry folks will just walk away from their property and those balloon payments will never happen.

Fummins
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Fummins
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave Kirby

I can only hope….

Humbold5 County Corporation Steals from the Poor
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Humbold5 County Corporation Steals from the Poor
5 years ago

We can plainly say that these cannabis farmers did not pay Humboldt County the extortion money for the permission slip to cultivate cannabis, I say extortion because that is exactly what the fees and permisaion slips are all about. Pay to play, either way Humboldt County Corporation will tax you, either pay up front or have Humboldt County steal your hard work while the deputies steal and personally pocket your money and pounds They will tax you up front or just tax you by stealing your personal property.

Cops are Robbers
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Cops are Robbers
5 years ago

Meanwhile real criminals and drug dealers sell meth on Highway 101 all along Eureka….. But we know all the Humboldt County Corporation wants is to steal your money and sell your pounds…. None of the weed or money is actually honestly accounted for, these cops are thieves, plain and simple.

Get some
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Get some
5 years ago

The humbolt shit show continues, literally. Grow dozers, meth, heroin, death, whining, and defeat.

Hahahaha
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Hahahaha
5 years ago

It almost seems as though HCSO just trolled the lot of you.

Sticks36
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Sticks36
5 years ago

This is just getting ridiculous. I think most people in Humboldt know what your typical mountain grow-op looks like, and I think we would all agree that this one looks pretty damn clean, organized, and well-maintained. Furthermore, I think we’d all agree that this grow is not even a fraction of the size of the other grows in that area.

I think it’s time for the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Dept to address the public on how they are choosing these busts, particularly the ones with less than 1,000 plants that are located near other illegal farms with 10,000+ plants. It does NOT make any sense at all.

My neighbor was busted recently, small family-farm grow with less than 700 plants. Two medium sized greenhouses, discreetly placed in a backyard, well-manicured lawn, cannabis growing right next to a beautiful organic garden of squash, kale, pumpkins, etc. This property was straight out of Better Homes and Garden, and it was just a small Mom and Son operation. They are born and raised in Humboldt. And suddenly, like random, they get a cease and desist order. But right down the road, half a mile away, an illegal grow with 4,000 plants and 8 junked vehicles hasn’t been contacted by authorities at all.

This needs to be address.

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  Sticks36

end of the road. up against the undeveloped ridge. pond to lure big game. looks like a prime hunting property to me.

SparkleMahn
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5 years ago

Way back in the late 70’s/early 80’s I used to get elbows of cannabis shake for $100, sell ten ounces at $10 each, and keep the rest. There were always little buds in there and for a broke college student it was the best I could do. As long as it was from Humboldt it was killer!