2000 Plants Eradicated on Three Parcels Near Hyampom by Marijuana Enforcement Team
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
On July 11, 2019, deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET) served two search warrants to investigate illegal cannabis cultivation in the Hyampom area of Humboldt County. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the California State Water Resources Control Board , the Humboldt County Environmental Health and Hazmat Unit and the Humboldt County Planning and Building Department assisted in the service of the warrant.Three parcels were investigated during the service of the warrants. The parcels did not possess the required county permit and state license to cultivate cannabis commercially.[Photo from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office]
During the service of the warrants, deputies eradicated approximately 2,000 growing cannabis plants. Deputies seized and destroyed over 85 pounds of processed cannabis. Deputies also located and seized one firearm.
Assisting agencies found the following violations:
– Water diversion violation (up to $8,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Water pollution violation (up to $20,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Depositing trash in or near a waterway violation (up to $20,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Improper storage and removal of solid waste violation (up to $25,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Commercial cannabis ordinance violation (up to $10,000 fine per day)
– Grading without a permit violation (up to $10,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Building code violation
– Streamside management violation
– Unapproved sewage violation
– Junk cars violation
– No water right to cultivate cannabis State Water Board violation
– Failure to follow water forbearance State Water Board violation
– No water measuring device for diversion State Water Board violationAdditional violations with civil fines are expected to be filed by the assisting agencies. No arrests were made during the service of these warrants, however numerous suspects have been identified and arrests are anticipated as this investigation continues.
Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
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Are there plants in that picture?
Nothing comparable to what they did out in Santa Barbara by Bolton and I hear there’s close to 20 more similar to that one they are just picking up Small potatoes over here empty boxes we’re talkin by the tonnage but violations are more profitable here!!!
My 6 plants will harvest more than their 250 or so.
So sad. How many much forest degradation for that shit? This is why I support regulation.
Get professional or get the heck out of here.
Giant Itty bitty teeny weeny little plants 2 million tons 2000 of them. Advanced tactical weapon should have brought the military with them
Only $90,000 a day violations not including the water board and other violations if we brought in the military we could be looking at 200,000 dollars of violations per day at 200 million tons per plant one of the biggest bus yet
Throw the book at em dano. Remember to include the meter violation!
Why must hcounty waste money violating the law themselves? Egregious fines like these violate the 8th amendment. Wasnt that just reconfirmed by the supreme court?
But brian is right, that’s a giant timber conversion and it fails the stewardship test. Your wrong though Brian about what that might produce however. Those, with good growing skills, will produce .5 to .75 per plant. It’s an old days tactic to plant at the 4th of July. These look even later than that though.
You’re probably right on the math….
Especially if you count the 4 plants in each square box as 1 plant, and make the average from that. Dont count the other 400 plants that they lost getting this far…
If they had put all those plants in just 5 square boxes, the harvest result may have been the same, they just wouldn’t have had to walk a football field a couple times a day…
“Get professional or get the heck outta here”…
Says who exactly?
What’s professional about your rural lifestyle/attitude?
Got a little German to it.
You’re right, they’re obviously professionals.
I should aim to use 15x the forest for 1/10th the harvest.
It totally makes sense, buying 5000′ of irrigation so I can harvest 16 lbs.
Yes, indeed, let’s move some more earth for 1000 more plants, er I mean, 12 more lbs..
Maybe you can help fill 400 pots, I’ll give you 20% or 2lbs, which ever is greater.
That sounds like some laser beam logic you can jive with?
Einfach!
Advanced tactical weapon? Are you kidding? Looks like a rusty, single shot shotgun to me. Appears to have been junk the day it was purchased. That would be a joke in court. Looks like they measured it to make sure the barrel was not sawed off and it passed. Advanced tactical club.
Their , “proffessionalism” will eventually turn it’s sights on you. Stop selling fish stories on RHBB about your harvest size and huge ammounts of profits to aggrandize yourself. The whole Ganja thing has been completely warped out since it’s start here in the 60’s. If you would like to see an actual Cannabis culture with integrity, not based on ones own personal interests look for individuals who grow an ammount for THEIR use only. Not for self gain rationalized like it’s medicine for the people.
Look. Dont worry about me;
I’ve sent my letter to the Planning Dept. regarding a declaration and intent of converting my property to a church. I’ll be fine.
Joking aside, I’m not a church with 6 plants, but I do support regulation because of the environmental blights of unregulated grow-however-many-you-want style properties.
If you want to see me being serious, go to the white supremacy flier thread.
Regards
Just to let so hum residents know. Rumor has it from a really good source, a local guy from the gravel plant spends his spare time googling everyones property and turning them in. His comment was ” if I have to be legal then everyone one else should be”. Its sad when your friend & neighbor will do this.
I have to caution that rumors like this are very likely not to be true.
Whether someone does that or not, consider that the county already knows most of the grows, and purchases satellite imagery for doing the same thing themselves.
I know of a local permitted farmer that is absalutly taking pics with gps on and sending them to county and sheriff.He has admitted to turning in several and was quite happy with himself about it. He’s also a good friend of the gravel plant guy that’s doing it too.
The sheriff wasn’t kidding when he said that’s where most of their tips are coming from.Not all but a lot of permitted farms feel like they are getting fucked in the legal market and feel quite justified turning as many in as they can find.No matter how many get busted it won’t effect their white market that they aren’t using anyway
Word salad article.
They served two warrants to “investigate”.
~i take it the tape measure is to show the length of the barrel compared to some copyright Code telling what’s “Illegal” and what’s “Legal”.
Perhaps a lawyer will comment. I think 14 inches is the federal legal minimum for a shotgun barrel. Trying for an additional charge out of that piece of junk and apparently failed.
Nice clear cut douchebags.
Clearing land for a house to be built would be the same as this. Nice try .
~yeah, many of us live in 5,000 sq. foot houses.
Next year they’ll probably put in some grapes and then everything will be peachy Keen
The house would not have to occupy all the land. It could be defensible space for fire safety, gardening, recreating and other things people do around their houses.
That area was hit hard by fires in 2015. That clearing was probably a burned area that they cleaned up.
“Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET) served two search warrants to investigate illegal cannabis cultivation in the Hyampom area of Humboldt County. ”
Hyampom is in Trinity County. Seems funny Humboldt S/0 would be working out there. Typo?
It’s a border community. “Hyampom area” being the general area.
It must have been on the Humboldt side because Trinity doesn’t have a grading ordinance.
You wont see that offense cited out here, though an emergency grading ordinance was just enacted….so we might soon.
It’s clear if you bother to consult a map
Blake mountain shits been blown up out there for years it’s in humboldt
There’s a lot of grows just west of Hyampom along FS Route 1, South Fork mountain, and along the east side of the Mad River, all in Humboldt county. The closest “town” would be Hyampom so they probably ise that to give the general area..
Humboldt/Trinity County line on the left.
Just like the red legs raids on misourri…
I prefer the good old days….
When growing weed was illegal!
-Every few years someone in the community would take a fall.
When they got home they’d be welcomed home with a shoebox full of cash, starts, and spot to work.
I cant remember any recent hundred thousand dollar anonymous donations arround the county either…..
I do admit…
Since the green rush, environmental degradation and exploitation of our state and its resources has gone out of control.
Do what thou will, but do no harm!
Dont tread on me!
We all need to stop growing cannibis, and start growing marijuana again!
~those words are “in use” (not defined), by the overlords.
Kanabosm℠ ™ ℗ ® ©
Well that’s not a new field at all, that’s been worked plenty before!
I’d have to agree.
It’s funny and similar to how people study the different time periods of construction in old cultures.
For instance the Spaniards added construction to Incan architecture of South America, and its telling.
I’d have to say those square boxes were built by a grower with a third of the plant numbers but each plant was 30x as big as what’s pictured above.
All the small pots/bags were added by subsequent people who didnt know what a real outdoor plant could do. Numbers, numbers, numbers.
When you average less than a 1/4 lb per plant, stop cutting trees and find work elsewhere. You’ll make more money volunteering at a church.
LMFKNAO!
You sir are a fkn RIOT!
Between you and Willie there is never a shortage of….”did he really just say that”!
Keep me in stiches!
Did you just really say that???
NoShitSherlock :-))
Yeah, it looks big, but I kinda think it’s not even an Acre of cleard land. Maybe an acre.. An Acre is like 165ft by like 265ft or so.. Maybe it’s 3/4 of an Acre. Probably more than 1/2.. An acre is 43,560 sq ft.. Count the boxes about 100 4×4 maybe 5×5 so that right there is like 2500 plus spaces..square ft of canopy, the sides maybe 50×100 5000 square maybe.. looks more like 30 x 100 so.. maybe 7,500 or 10,000 for the whole flat.. At least that’s my estimate..
No permit = 6 plant period people
Bla bla bla…
Talk about planting late……
if that was my grow i think i would use that gun pictured on myself. straight greenhorns. I know the elevation effects planting dates an yields but damn thats some sad shitt.