‘Most Bud I’ve Ever Seen in One Place,’ Says Lt. Fridley of HCSO
Lt. Mike Fridley of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office wrote, “[This is the] Most bud I have ever seen in one place.” He told us there was over 16,000 pounds of mostly processed bud. While some wasn’t in final manicure form, it had been mainly broken down into palm-sized flowers as seen in the photo above.
The team dug a trench three feet deep to bury the marijuana in the mud in order to destroy it but, there was so much, it mounded over the top and additional work had to be done, he explained.
Fridley described a high level of sophistication. There were about 30 workers on site, he said. Most of them, he explained, used passports from Eastern European nations to identify themselves. “There was a 30 person manicuring room,” he said. “And a commercial kitchen.” He added that they had the biggest generator he’d ever seen.
No arrests were made as that “speeds up the clock” on having to file charges and get the case to trial, Fridley said.
“I didn’t think anyone was blowing it up like this anymore,” Fridley said. He promised additional information in a press release later.
He also said that the DEU would be continuing busts throughout the year. “People aren’t even trying to hide their greenhouses,” he said. “As we left, we saw a bunch of lit up greenhouses…The place was like daylight [and] you can see them from the road.”
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Wouldn’t that central west humboldt…
16,000 is a whole friggin lot, even if it’s not trimmed. I think I just heard the price of a pound go up!
i think you mean price going down. a flooded market rarely bring s the price up.
Ack, I wrote eastern even though I knew western. Fixed now but that isn’t central Humboldt it’s west of Miranda.
Here’s a rough map with the blue dot showing the rough location of the incident and the red outline showing Humboldt County.
Thanks for the maps, Kym.
Once again, real journalists interpret information, and questions, then provide researched facts.
Thanks
It’s considered Honeydew only 10 minutes up the hill from Honeydew
If you have Google Earth, search for 4100 Wilder Ridge Rd, then choose the one in Garberville, CA (I know it’s not in Garberville, but that’s what comes up). Click on it and will take you right there. Little Bulgaria right here in Humboldt.
Doesn’t look like they grew 16,000 lbs on that property
Tatyana Peycheva. Sounds like a local.
Also listed as owner of two other properties on Wilder Ridge Rd.
People who aren’t from here call everything south of Orick “southern Humboldt.” Cracks me up. Plus, they mispronounce all the place names that aren’t right on “the” 101. (Our news broadcasters are bad about this.)
Another one bites the dust.
Well I smoke two joints in the morning and then I smoke two more and I smoke two joints and I smoke two joints and then I smoke two more
RIP Bradley
That’s it ? Better open their eyes and look around .. they haven’t even put a dent lol
give them time and funds and soon unlicensed grows will become the stuff of legends
Not even a dent in this saturated market, kind of funny how things change , used to be I’d vacation out of state and people ask me where I was from ,then ask if I had any weed, now they still ask where I’m from but no mention of weed, Humboldt weed has lost its market
Great research there in that post, but you sir would be wrong.
You can buy diy Vermont and Nevada medical weed in Columbus Ohio. Unheard of last year. The export game is way up, for a bunch of states besides Cali.
Two years ago that 16,000 pounds would have been long gone by November. The shit-ton of inventory speaks for itself. Market is not lost but it has been greatly reduced and the price has fallen through the floor.
Keep at it Emily but remember nobody is going to cry when the popo takes down your scene and steals all of your cash because you were warned. Go legal or get fucked.
they were still trimming it. weed was never long gone by nov
Kym may benefit from that same advice.. lol
States are promoting their own legal taxed weed , and bashing Humboldt as junk weed, welcome to big biz Emily ,cut throat is their game, and you are their competition, profit margins are huge to them right now, market ain’t even close to saturated, wait 2 years then it will be saturated
I travel the country constantly and no one is bashing humboldt.
Me too. And Humboldt is high priority, even in Columbus.
Nope, just homeless people with 7lbs wheeling down the freeway in wyoming in winco shopping carts ,definitely high grade lol, trading it for higher valued cigarettes says it all
Every year, more states and countries go legal, without the production to meet demand. You just need to up your export game.
the advantage of Humboldt was the location.
with legalization it is now about the climate and infrastructure.
Hopefully the SO had the proper permits to dig a three foot deep trench? I guess it’s do what I say not what I do mentenality!
without characterizing the waste, the county may have violated State and Federal laws. did they test it for pesticides?
Did they have a permit when they pushed that garden in Blocksburg off a cliff with a tractor?
That’s my favorite Public Theater of the year.
it was an emergency and a public safety concern, lol !
Wonder who I can get a hold of to buy them totes?
Contact the Bulgarian consulate.
Lmao 😂
I don’t understand why there were no arrest.
Once sommeone is arrested, then the clock starts ticking on when charges must be filed. That means deputies have less time to collect evidence once an arrest is made.
It clearly states why…
Bulgarians taking over. Please arrest these gangsters
Finally checking on the Bulgarians.
Many of those “lit-up” greenhouses belong to “permitted” grows. The owners disregard the rules and give the finger to anyone who complains – I feel like a broken-record here, but There Is No Enforcement when it comes to permitted grows! If you want to drain the neighborhood creek, run fans and generators 24-hours a day, light up your greenhouses and sell on the black market, then get a permit! Just ask Rex – he’s helped out a lot of his friends this way!
Sounds to me like you just described the prop. 215 era that began all of these mega-grows and environmental destruction.
Yes, except now, instead of forming collectives and having members, you just pay the county cultivation tax and they give you protection. Quite the scam, but good one for both sides.
and morons for neighbors.
You can thank Gallegos for that
Yes. It is important to note- although I am a broken record also- that these “legal” permitted grows have no Track and Trace and are selling their weed out-of-state in violation of federal and CA law. The state agencies and county officials are willfully turning a blind eye. It is a major case of federal racketeering and laundering and conspiracy to violate interstate transportation laws being committed by government officials. Why the media blackout and deception about all this?
Apparently it is not important to note. No one is going to do anything about the lack of over site.
Currently there is a big scene top of the ridge south of Panther Gap running HPS lights at all hours. You can see it for miles. What beautifull scenery we enjoy here in the wilderness.
The wild wild west still continues but soon to be gone. Euro Mafia organizations are slowly consolidating their power in your back yard, reeking havok on the environment and driving the price of weed into the ground. Does anyone still believe growing weed is good for the Humboldt?
1600 lbs X let’s say a reasonable 800 a lb is 1.2 million. Yep. The weed market is dead. Everybody go home, nothing to see here. Even funnier…. no arrest = these ass hats will be back at it early spring on another leased peice of property. My guess is this was just there full term haul and they have already pocketed 3 million!
No, 16,000 pounds! Even at 800 a pound, that’s 12.8 million. Read again.
16000×800=12.8 million. What were you saying about the market being dead?
You forgot a zero in your calculations. 16,000 not 1,600
16,000 lbs not 1600
Dam my bad. Starting to lose it in my ol age
$800 a pound. Only if you sell singles to minors.
or you don’t know anybody
“Eight tons a-mari-juana,
I hear-a eight tons a-mari-juana…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j-vC2EiH0U
Excellent. Did ICE come along for the show?
Yes, I think ICE might be interested in this – or not.
These are folks with Euro extraction, not brown skinned. Currently, it seems ICE is more interested in Brown Skin more that illegal activities of Imported Mafia types.
This county and state forbids notifying ICE.
Humboldt County’s sanctuary status will not protect people charged with crimes.
“The County’s” sanctuary status -as bogus as it is, only applies in the unincorporated parts of Humboldt. Not that it matters for “Countywide” taxation.
~just sayin
maybe we should get Trump involved ? are any of them Mulsum ?
Our current federal government views eastern-European criminals very favorably.
The Bulgarians have federal protection because our military has multiple bases their country. I’m positive they’ve been bribing the planning department because there has been at least one instance where everybody in the neighborhood got an abatement letter except the Bulgarians.
Last week houses with one or two greenhouses in northern humboldt got letters but somehow these guys are just rolling along still? It reeks of corruption.
Lol. Nope. They aren’t rolling anything at that grow anymore
With the ability to launder HUGE amounts of organized crime money without having to prove where it came from and the fact being busted here generally means a plane ticket home rather than prison, I see little to dissuade these people from this type of activity
Yeah, offshore money can buy property without proving or stating the origin. Unlike US citizens.
I am curious what their water source was?
And what prevents someone from just digging it up?
It’s quite possible that they just buy their water by the truck load like a lot of other people.
Mattole river tributaries
You can run that muddy cannabis through the extraction tube and yield good product
That’s intriguing. Want to talk to me about it? [email protected]
awesome. and you sell that garbage. be so glad when most of the production has quality standards.
Like it had before gubbernut interference.
Lowering the test standards, typical Amerika.
Ahh, I’m picturing a new govt. program titled “no joint left behind”.
I bet that’s right. Extraction will separate the cannabis oils and terpenes and leave all the water soluble stuff and solids in the dirt behind. Might taste a little funny.
Deport them all!!
Foreigners shouldn’t be tolerated exploiting our home!!
Never let them return!!
Eurotrash!!
keep them locked up until you deport them. no bail no O.R. for illegal aliens or even immigrants until they have succeeded in obtaining citizenship. and some think they are easy on aliens from europe. this is wrong they only gave DACA to mexicans
Yep on the DACA at the least… DACA is just a way to keep people oppressed. It creates a temporal second class of citizen. They should have provided a reasonable and timely way for full citizenship if they were serious about helping people.
Kym Kemp: Queen of Maps! Thank you, again.
I miss the days when law enforcement used to call it contraband or drugs or marijuana. “Bud” is so unprofessional and accepting. Sigh.
With all due respect Guest – you don’t grow it, deal it, smoke it, ingest it, but yet you’re such an expert on it.
How can that be?
My misunderstanding -and i apologize.
and guns are boom sticks right? (depends on who is reporting) (think about it) i am insinuating they call it bud because…….
I heard the term the Devil’s dandruff the other day referring to a white powdery substance.
“Bud” is a technical term for cannabis in that stage of production. If a police report is inaccurate, if won’t stand up in court.
How about “marijuana buds” then? Buds sounds so slangy.
Marijuana is a a slang term. Cannabis is the proper word. Cannabis buds. Like rose buds, just a plant part.
And the plant is hemp.
Marijuana is a drug. Cannibis is a drug. Weed is a drug. Drugs = money. Money = greed. Greed = corruption. It’s simple math
So we eliminate money which will eliminate greed which will eliminate corruption?
Guess which drug trade trumps them all,is legal , and has the biggest black market ring? Rx pills! Yep. If it alters your brain then it will demand money.
Just wondering if the producers of this mega shitshow will over produce themselves out of existence before destroying the planet in the process…
Hey, never asked this before, but do these mega grows contribute to global warming? Grows produce methane gas, nitrous oxide through soil cultivation and CFC’s too. It all helps to change the natural greenhouse. Drought, wildfires, all enhanced by marijuana grows.
Seems to me that you kinda asked and answered your own question…like any good politician.
Running diesel generators…adds to CO2 levels but so does driving to work in my truck. Produce methane gas…I don’t know, I produce methane (I call it ass gas). CFCs…probably not directly but I guess that you could extrapolate it into plastic products used on the farm. Speaking of which, what’s up with all of the red Solo cups in the trim room? It looks like the morning after a frat party!
Anyway, these mega-grows probably do contribute to the “Greenhouse” effect (wink, wink) as much, or less, than any other large scale agriculture.
Scissor cups🤣
I noticed all the geni’s, most likely diesel storage, used oil, and no haz mat violations. it seems these eastern Europeans are doing their best when it comes to haz mat operations.
Its an plant from the earth thats been part of the planet longer than humans have!!!! It really has more rite to exsist here than we do !!!!!
🙄
This better be the last time anything like this ever happens again gosh darn it !
i am really interested in the fact that no one has mentioned money. was there none or are they still going to watch these guys to try to track the money? btw i say take all their belongings… trucks, dressers, tvs, anything… at all and leave them penniless
This is a picture of some of there workers seen walking down the road sometime during the time of the raid.
Good job. Young ones!
Are those generators for sale?
no wonder there were so many Bulgarians on the roads in that area this fall! You can spot one a mile away just based on how they dress.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopnik
So, the sherrif buried all those napkins also? Illegal dumping?
The buried marijuana will be eaten by maggots, and then the hippies will turn them into chocolate covered…
Rays market must have a full parking lot again, and I’m not talking shoppers
So if they were the raw dog mafia status that everyone puts them at would they just hand over 8 to 12 mill without a fight … not a chance , or just now local and whatever authority is working here just stepped up their game no way all that shit was from one or two props . .02$
Theres so many more. What a joke the HSCO said they didnt think stuff like this was happening. Thats pretty ignorant and disheartening. Thats ignorance parading around the room. So much smells fishy in this case.