Helicopter, Chippers: Huge Law Enforcement Raid Again Tuesday in Spyrock Area
The chop chop chop of a helicopter broke the quiet hush not long after sunrise in the Spyrock area east of Leggett in the very remote hills of northern Mendocino this morning.
Before 8:30 a.m., a convoy of black unmarked vehicles interspersed with agency trucks and SUV’s wound its way into the remote area as they did yesterday. Two readers described about 20 vehicles and a chipper. One later added that a second convoy of about 12 vehicles headed into the area. It also had a chipper.
One reader described seeing, “Helicopters, National Guard, [two] 20 car convoys, some are riding in the back of pick up trucks.” However, no helicopters are showing up on FlightRadar.
Reportedly at least one the convoys on Spyrock is again in the Simmerly Road area.
One person said described going out to the area where law enforcement had been yesterday and seeing “18 100′ greenhouses” all chipped.
Yesterday, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office stated in a press release,
Cannabis farms that are licensed through the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing Division will not be the focus of this operation.
CalCannabis Licensing Inspectors will be participating in Operation Clean Sweep and have been an essential resource in the Operation’s pre-identification process of the sites to be investigated.
Earlier Chapters:
- Mendocino Sheriff’s Office Says Search Warrants Served Today on Illegal Cannabis Sites in Northern Mendocino County
- Massive Convoy With Helicopter and Two Chippers Raiding Spy Rock Area
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wonder how many white market players will take advantage of 2k+ a lb black market prices?
With no track and trace in place in Humboldt the so called legal growers that are drug trafficking across state lines with support of the co- conspiratorial law enforcement protecting them , the so called legal growers will all take advantage .
Track and trace is actually in full effect by the state. Most businesses are already in provisional and annual status which means you are in metrc 30 days after. I know multiple farmers that have all their plants tagged for state track and trace and in 2 weeks all temporaries expire and only those in metrc will enter the fall
Nice story.
Exactly, nice story. “Most” are NOT on track and trace yet.
Next on the spyrock agenda is the notification of fines adding up to 75 to $150,000 a day$10,000 a day for growing without a permit sounds pretty silly when they stole all their herb and put it through a chipper no this no more
Not a worry! There are “legal” nurseries with overstock who are very willing to sell their plants to anybody who just pretends to have a permit. Because there isn’t really an effective track-n-trace….All of these busted scenes will be replanted in a few days just like CAMP times. And the raiders will be off to some of the other thousands of scenes and won’t care because…How else could they pay their fines?!
*********†*****************follow the money stock market shares in marijuana have been selling to big investors throughout the government then here you go there is where the money is that is why the mom and pops are being punished as well as any grow that doesn’t have a permit pushing the government’s agenda into corporate America
Please tell me how track and trace stops anyone from filtering some product to the original market? Or what is to keep non permitted grows from piggybacking illegal product on licensed farms?
It is true that you could divert some cannabis and not report it. However you doing this at risk to your own license plus fines and fees from the CDFA. Also if you try and move black market into the legal market, you are most likely taking a loss of profit. Also you are creating a paper trail and taking responsibility for having sold X amount to a distributor. At the end of the year when you pay your taxes if you are not reporting everything that went thru metrc then you are creating a red flag.
How would metric know if you didn’t report it. Also if you sold through a permitted grow there wouldn’t be a paper trail leading to the illegal grow
Get it , its tracked and traced. Ask Oregon growers they are all track and trace and can’t get away with selling any on the black market. That’s why it’s over supplied and prices are below 500 a pound . An eighth sells at a dispensary for twelve dollars instead of 45 to 60 like in California . Once track and trace is actually really in place on all growers only the biggest farms will supply the state and California won’t get all this money from so many licensed growers and all the emerald triangle towns economies will collapse .
So you are saying they somehow know how much you got off each tagged plant? Then know wet to dry weight conversion? Then know the adjusted trimmmed weight? Then finally know the A to B bud difference? I can’t see how track and trace doesn’t leave room for corruption at all stages of harvest.
Yes look it up . It’s supposed to be under video surveillance it’s entire life until after it’s dried up and it’s weighed . Talk to some people that are in Oregon and are experiencing it . I have , they say they would have to fake a robbery to get away with selling it on the black market . At most they said they can possibly maybe move ten percent on the black market but then risk losing there license if caught . Also with the drought of cannabis in California people have been going to Oregon hoping to pick up some of there over supply with no luck because it’s so heavily tracked and traced .
They say they lost a certain percentage to mold and then backdoor it on the black market in Oregon. Their suppose to send a video of them burning the moldy product but will just burn trim instead cause it looks similar.
Video surveillance, I don’t see that happening. 5 cameras on each patch. 10 patches. Surveillance in transport to the drying building. Surveillance while drying. Surveillance while you transport to the trim building. Surveillance while trimming. Surveillance while weighing. Sounds like about a hundred cameras. Many grows are out of internet coverage. None of that even matters when harvest to bag weight is completly different for every strain, also seed or clone.
Those prices are only in the metrc. Medical grows are tagged and you pay patients you grow for at the end of the year but you still just underreport your weight to the olcc and make off with 200 lbs at the end of the year of outdoor. Some pull more of 48. It’s a pain in the ass and you have to jump through plenty of hoops to get legal but the black market off medical grows is where it’s at. Haven’t heard of one bust in southern Oregon yet this year.
Oregon- where a 12 ft tracked and traced plant only yields 1 lb average. lol
Not true at all I know legal farms in Oregon who are “diverging” to the traditional market.
Every OG got there way around METRC
Exactly my point.
Thanks
A lot of speculators answering. I talk to real growers involved. Believe what you want . Go buy a gram for 4 dollars in an Oregon dispensary.
Could we get these CalCannabis licensing inspectors up to humboldt next please, I think there might be some investigatin’ to do…
Yes. They need to come here to override the sheriff’s desire to pass by semi-permitted grows. Any grow w/o state or provisional license and fully following track-and-trace is as illegal as an unpermitted grow and deserves to be treated as such. I’d like to be able to say -Welcome back my old friends to the fold of undesirable bad players! How’s it feel now?
Yep Farce, I will fire up the D8, put the water lines back in the creek, slash out a clearing, leave the trash for a pit I dig, get some eagle 20 from Oregon, flip off my neighbors working on the road, shit I may even start doing drugs again. Just like the good ole days.
No. You are referring to the greedrush days. In the good old days we ran people like that out of our neighborhoods. But yes- the rising prices will again attract more lowlifes doing crappy stuff…and people like you will welcome them like lost brothers.
I was being completely facetious, pointing out your double standard. I grew up in the old days of neighbors and CB radios, small scenes and communities that you harken back to all the time. I wish it could return to that, but the reality is the old timers are to old, there are too few of us. I and 4 neighbors fixed the road yearly for 20 green rushers who never once even kicked in 100 bucks for Diesel. The green rushers are what you will get back, and all the attendant environmental destruction and collapse of neighborhood morals. Which do you want, a time that will not return, or more enviro destruction.
Well said.
And let’s just keep hyping about the current prices. I’m sure if everyone talks about it enough a whole new crew of assholes will move in. Zip it folks, too much blabbing going on as usual…🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐
He’s definitely hyping all those ppl on here going gonna be 4K by the end the year blah blah blah you realize it has to be going for a lot more than that at the source and it isn’t for the most part not even close. There’s lots of fire dep at 15 all the ppl getting 2k plus for their outdoor are luring saying it’s indoor and rookie buyers/brokers might take the bare but must won’t. I also fine it ironic everyone bitching about enforcement but praising the high prices. It goes hand and hand that’s why prices got so low it was just a giant free for all something had to be done or it wouldn’t matter if they even did anything everyone was growing the market to death….
Do you think the rest of the states don’t know that there is a drought and what’s going on out here? The guy in Minnesota that buys an eighth a week to put up with his shitty home and life knows there’s a shortage. Staying quiet about it doesn’t change anything. And I think the way California let these guys move in with big money while pushing out the people that made legalization possible is sad and disgusting. It’s just a bunch of trust fund kids monopolizing what was a beautiful protest of a ridiculous law and eventually what will pave the way for federal legalization. They don’t care about shit except the money. Inherit 3 million bucks, find a badass grower that’s been in the game, pay him or her shit while we make millions and piss off the decent neighbors. That’s the new California legal grow starter pack. After that you get a brand new Toyota Tundra and a pit bull to try to “blend in”
I Know exactly who you are referring to. He was at the hemp meeting. Big beard flat hat squawking about how he spent 2.8 mil on his newbie grow and why should the hemp laws be easier on less fortunate folks. Piece of shit made me sick.
Realbowski That is exactly what is happening I couldn’t agree more
Guest- Because there are only 2 possible ways for this to be? Give it up to the corporations or the environment gets destroyed? That’s your dilemma?! It sounds more like a rational for your getting a permit and paying a fee to eradicate your old neighbors…y’know whatever lets you sleep at night, bro. Yes they are starting by taking out some ugly destructive scenes- which I have always endorsed …even when Kym and others refused to see them. But they will not stop at big and ugly and soon they will be hitting your 40 plant neighbors with massive fines they can’t pay. And they will do it with funding that you approved. The old days are gone forever but you can still have honor- that is timeless. Your old reputation means nothing- it’s what you do now that matters.
Farce, I know you, and agree with a lot you of what you talk about. What gets me is the turn to sudden all knowing self righteousness that pops up. Based on false facts or your opinion. Above you say “Even Kym refused to see them”. She has been reporting about diesel spills and rat poison and illegal grading from the beginning. Yet you Blame her. They will be hitting friends of mine for 40 plant grows, already had a lot abated. They will do this with a abatement program that should be sued by some attorney because it illegal. My friends are rolling the dice, like they did in the 90’s when a 5-10 pound harvest was good, and the biggest harvests in the 2 infamous areas I lived were 20 pounds. People had 2 choices and both were shit, saying my choice to try to clean my scene was actually done with the specific intent to harm my friends and neighbors’ is what makes me call your shit. Please offer some solutions. I’ll listen.
They need to allow a small Medical Collective Allowance.. Gutting 215 was an extremely underhanded move.. there are many people Under 2500 square ft, that are of no consequence to Abate.. Exuse me for answering for Farce here, I really can’t assume to speak for Farce.. I am speaking on my terms.. I hear that many legal growers wanted to beilive they were doing the “right” thing… It’s not morally the high ground to harm your neighbors either.. not to say that’s not ones intent.. However.. it put wings in the sails for the gov. To come blantently terrorize the entire triangle now.. Don’t think your safe because you have a “permit” they are already making up excuses why they can come and mess with you.. And they already did, by making the fees so extremely high.. and hoops so extremely tough… Other counties have no where near the amount of “red tape” or expense Humboldt has..
They also need greater protections from fines on Residential Properties.. I think it one thing to shut does an open field grow, nobody is living as apposed to targeting someone’s home.. that’s absolute abuse of the intent of the Law..
I think the water issue, while I agree that maybe the larger scenes need extreme water storage, a smaller scene, with a small house garden is not the problem.. Paying the Water board is not going to protect anything… I agree people need more storage.. how about making insentives instead of punishments.. and fines and fees..
I think it’s also true, that it can’t just be left voluntarily.. at least not to the larger cultivators.. I think under 2500sq ft collective should be granted leniency from the Water board.. or maybe a guideline over 5 years to improve water storage… I think up to 5000sq ft could also be a collective, with stricter water provisions
I think they should have never approved anything over 10’000sq ft in the timber tracks in the first place.. and I don’t tink they should permit anything over that from here on out.. especially if you live down a dirt rd…
I think they need to rarange the tax bracket.. 9$ an ounce is insane.. Trimers don’t even make that any more.. the square ft tax is too high, for the time being for smaller collectives.. I think they should make a reasonable sq ft tax for small medical collectives..
I think they need to tax larger growers at a higher rate.. to keep the market in line and encourage smaller grows…
Also, Cannabis evolved in the hills, it can be grown in bottom lands certainly, saying that all need to move to the lower tracks is unreasonable.. Canabis belongs in higher elevations.. kinda like Coffee, the higher the elevation, the better…
I am just saying there are solutions.. and can be.. this move to privatize the canabis industry and move it from the hands of the people to the hands of the elite thru military Tatics and constitutional abuses is not the answer.. either…
All that is allowed if you have a permit.
The permit is unaffordable and extremey restrictive on that small of a scale.. and the yearly water board fee is high..to high..Its not only the fees but all the erroneous other regulations you need to go thru just to have a small grow. And they probably will not issue u a permit anyway because the gave them all to the enviromental destroyers anyway… Not only that, If your less than 2500, there isnt a path forward for you. Seriously though the Gov shouldn’t be able to tell people they cant collectivly grow together within reason. A permit is for commercial cultivation.. I am not referring to “commercial cultivation” But collectively cultivating canabis on a small scale.. Sure, maybe the state has done away with “collectives” but I dont see why the county cant allow them on some level…
It’s because they have the corporate love affair to keep strong.
Lobbyists in Sacramento sway the legislative bodies to make sure the corporate model is protected.
The Lil people have been getting bent over since day one.
The hard part is getting Y/our heads around the fact that it’s warfare against the working people.
Qui bono.
Who benefits…
If the BCC were “good Players” and out to “do the right thing” they would have kept the cap and made a reasonable Ordinance easily adaptable by small and medical type cultivators in the first place..
But they have chosen to attemp to micro manage every aspect of our lives and Buisness!
Big Money Adgenda again Ultimately benefits..they can’t handle true compition, or true Capitalism.. They gotta call in Big Bro…to smash out any potential perceived competitors…
Well that’s what the government knew would happen and wanted most likely cuz they would and should know pros and cons of what they do. So I’m sure they have a ton of friends and family who grows and just wanna profit big time one last time before they switch their occupation to something better or who knows I could be wrong…
Better get ready for more military action, most people do not want this to happen. Sheriff Honsal justifying his actions using divide and conquer tactics. Humboldt County economy has been in a free-fall since abatements and other ordinance related actions, in the last few years. No this is not good for most businesses are family, hardly anybody wants the military here That’s for sure!
This is Mendocino, so the coconspirator is none other than Sheriff Tom Allman.
Joe,
“hardly anybody wants the military here ”
~you’d have to be disconnected (w/no hope on the horizon of connecting in this lifetime), to invite unconscious, cowardly Order Followers here, for “compliance” of a freakin County, zero-consent of the governed, VOID before the ink was dry, TAX ordinance.
Only a woosie Sheriff would do the unthinkable, publish his lying sack of excrement on YouTube, accentuating his incompetence, AND THEN brag about it to his over paid partners-in-crime.
State bureaucracies are content to just roll over and pee in the air when the federal “alpha male” glowers at them.
Those “unconscious, cowardly Order Followers” must (and have sworn an oath to) follow all LAWFUL orders. And they would be among the first to stand for your right to speak of your anti-government sentiment without the Gestapo kicking your door in and hauling you off to a re-education camp. I am not trying to disparage you, nor discount your views, just making a point.
~i’ve been at this too long to be discouraged. Long enough to know that no Order Follower is going to have my back.
“The American Dream – you’d have to be asleep to believe it.” –George Carlin.
Not anti-government necessarily. Anti the azzholes trying their damnedest to destroy My republican form of government.
All of them.
Conflicting statements here Kym the sheriff of Mendocino says if a permitted grower is over ten percent of stated permit size the entire crop will be eradicated.but cdfw says no permitted grows will be cut ??
https://www.mendovoice.com/2019/07/mendocino-sheriff-cannabis-eradication-effort-operation-clean-sweep-with-national-guard-cdfw/
Sheriff Allman did caution that any cultivator that exceeds their local and state authorization are subject to complete eradication (not just the difference of the overage). Generally, complete eradication will occur if an otherwise authorized cultivator exceeds the amount authorized by more than 10% according to Sheriff Allman.
Yep, got us and a few others a few days ago.
Was anyone arrested or are they just issuing tickets?
Just tickets and they struggled to nail us with fines but they did.
Dang.. that bites! 10% over.. and entire crop gone.. That is serious bull! Condolences!
All good, ya lose some here but ya win some there. I am more concerned about my crew than fines, tickets or the other bullshit.
Hahahaha!!!! Enjoy the fines. You deserve them
STHU [EDIT]… These fines are bad for everyone.. I hope they fine your rose bush for being the wrong shade of red… Bitter much?
I will pay my crew first with the two indoor sites I just setup in the bay area. As far as the fines go you do understand while they are busting my Mendocino property I am quickly setting up indoor sites that will get 2 to 3 times more per pound. Just got back from the bay area no national guard and no sheriff is bothering any of those operations. The moment the heat is off we will go back on the property and start over again, smaller, just two hoops and add a hoop every year till it gets popped and repeat til I die.
Same Game.. different decade! The Original Market will never be shut down..The more they tinker w/ it the more it thrives. It’s good to have plan B! Best of luck w/ it….Crew First then…Wash Rinse Repeat.. they will never win! It’s a weed! It just sucks they can just crash peoples hard work like that! All for big biz corp. Market consolidations! The Triangle will Ultimately loose, if it keeps up this level of enforcement.. Blessings to you LL!
Fuck yeah bro that’s the spirit! I’ll help you lol
If you think that these agencies are coordinated on what they say and how they interpret the law you are woefully unaware of how poorly these agencies work.
The LEO s and government know when track and trace is in place most legal growers will not be able to sell there product due to over supply of cannabis . Because the government didn’t stick to the state wide 10000 square foot limit per grow . They changed the limit after the people voted on it without any input or any other vote . This is because corporations are filling the pockets of the people in the government who decided this behind the voters backs .
I like math so let’s run some numbers. Roughly 320+ million US population with 40 million living in the state of California. If 20 percent of the population smokes marijuana at a half pound a year (a tad bit over an eighth a week) that is roughly 14 million tons of weed annually. To make concentrates with yields around 10 to 25% depending on method and quality of biomass means at a minimum you need 4 times more product to produce 1 pound of concentrate. Using math again that is roughly a shitload amount of tonnage and I am tired of everyone thinking the universe revolves around California. No matter about legalization, track n trace, national guard, Gavin’s threats, Honsal’s threats, Estelle with no voice a fifth of the population gets high and we supply it will never stop, the math says so!
Those chips would make some nice mulch
They sure might but not for the blue line creek they dumped them into… hopefully the neighbors got some pictures of that because that would be a serious “environmental crime”…
Joe Dirt…Then maybe if you aren’t legally permitted by the country or the state you shouldn’t grow. I truly hope that they bust as many as is humanly possible. What’s more I hope that they bring in lots and lots of reinforcement. If nothing else the national guard pilots will get some welcome stick time.
Steve- Nice attempt at authoritarian control but in reality they are driving up prices. The highest prices in 3 years will motivate more people than ever to grow. Maybe not in obvious greenhouses on flat clearings but on logging company land, unoccupied public and private parcels, under partial tree cover and in huge diesel- powered underground containers. And….everywhere else but here- especially Oregon and warehouses back east. Some people will even do it more to resist the corporate takeover than for the money- a shocking concept to those who think everybody is ruled by profit incentive and greed!. I don’t think you understand peoples’ heartfelt relationship to this herb or their deadication in keeping it free from corporate or government control. This is a war your ideology can never win. But you sure will spend major tax funds and inflict much pain in the meantime!
And that, friend, is how we should fight this time around. Continue to show the futility of the losing war against cannabis. We’re on the side of right.
Centuries of Homo Sapiens have cultivated our cannabis. Enforcers … step aside we’re coming through.
Well said and you are 100% correct. Down south right now setting up to cover what I just lost. No national guard, no sheriff threatening my exsistance, no division of the community. As a matter of fact, new neighbor came over asked where I was from. I answered and guess what he said next, lol, “got any weed,” lol and just like that business as usual.
So they should have a emergency permit for all of us mom n pop growers they would rake in the dough and we could save our pot and our dignity at afordable prices like 50 to 100$per property dont punish us for trying to survie the only way we know how we arent bad people we are just most of the population in mendocino co please everyone petition for relief and be fair big goverment everyone in favor say aye
Aye
AYE
Nay, you were a criminal, why should the new regs protect a criminal?
They don’t and won’t.
It’s criminal to continue to bust people for a plant of NO consequence..That is the true “criminality” in Motion here!
No push back.
Slaves will be minded by the house slave…
In gamblinhis the house always wins.
With the price rapidly rising from these busts we will see even more and more trespass grows, at $1800 pp there is plenty of incentive to guerilla grow again, especially not on your own land. The whole idea of legalization was that the price would drop enough to force small growers out, but apparently the big legal companies want Greasy Gavin to inflate the price once again, this is why we are seeing these operatioms, they are no longer fighting a war on pot, they are fighting a war to keep the supply down so the prices will rise for Greasy Gavins corporate buddies in the New Cannabis Industry….. Allman is just a pawn a mere schill in their plan….
“OPERATION CLEAN SWEEP”
Sweeping the price of pot up for the black market, thats whay us black market growers love to hear!
Maybe if us legal growers rat out all oir neighbors who didnt have the funds or resources or right zoning to get legal, we will make triple money off our 35 Greenhouses capable of producing 100 pounds each, last year we only pulled 2 crops and got 7,000 pounds or 3.5 mill at 500 per pound, with “Operation Gavin Newsom Price War”, we are now getting 1600 per pound, that means we will get 7 million more, Hooray, I am so glad we funded Greazy Gavins campaign at that the president of the Fish and Wildlife Commission owns a vertically integrated Cannabis Company in Napa called Fuze Napa….. we got Gavin in our back pocket and now we will take over the cannabis industry from all those dirty back woods hippies, the money is out there and it is all ours, all ours, we have the power, we are the New Cannabis Industry we will fight you using the military, we will invade your grows with weapons
Aaaand here’s another commenter on here full of shit lmao why do people like to come on here and make up their fantasy stories…..anyone that knows anything knows those numbers you said are all lies like wow. Everyone of your hoops pulled exactly the same and you sold for 500 all season. Someone with a scene like that isn’t going to be getting 500 for their dep even last year. And reality check you don’t pull 1lb per foot like clock work shit doesn’t work like that…….so go back to working at Kmart it’s obvious you dont know shit prolly couldn’t even grow a lawn of grass 😂😂😂
He’s painting a quite true philosophical picture of the situation that has been created. It’s not a necessarily true story . So relax big guy.
Realistically nobody smokes outdoor and if u do maybe u should question why your wasting your time smoking trashcan hill weed u live in California the epicenter of it all why smoke nasty pollen filled outdoor and catch a stuffy nose and throat irritation
Some outdoor growers weed looks better than what you Ill informed masses think of indoor. The only way to truly tell when properly grown is to see the cell structure. Shame you never had good Humboldt weed but based on your comment I am pretty sure I know why. Soon a few of us are gonna release some herb on a massive scale of true Humboldt dankness. So enjoy if your blessed to get your hands on some cause this crap corporate smear campaign is the biggest bullshit to get you to buy their oddly cured only get ya high for 20 minutes mouseball size nugs for $80 dollars an 1/8th.
~salute.
Black and White market sungrown is actually being bought up by legal companies who can find black market cannabis for cheaper prices…. they dont care how pure the cannabis is because the oils can now be filtered and cleaned of toxic residues or pesticide-fungal toxins using state of the art equipment which will allow it to pass testing requirements: dont fool yourself, all this pot white or black market is being bought by oil manufacturers for use in Oil pens which are being shipped all over the world. There is no way to control it …. track and trace my ass…. they want you to think there are 2 markets, but in reality it is all one market with big money investors crying to the governor and permitted growers turning in non permitted growers, but in reality they are all selling to both markets…. which in reality is one market with legal and illegal cannabis…
Gary bobbolino, You don’t nt know what your talking about . End of story .
Ok Mr Steve Roach
I love Sheriff Allman. I love that he targets family cannabis growing farms. I love that he rips crying children from their mothers arms and turns them over to pedophile foster homes for simply growing pot. I love that he goes after elderly cannabis growers, I love that he targets traditional cannabis growing neighborhoods sending his keystone cops and armed goons racing up and down our small country dirt roads running elderly drivers and young mothers off our country dirt roads, I love that he is a schill for the big corporate cannabis companies funded with hedgefunds and Canadian investment money which are truly greedy and destroying our local economy, look at all those small businesses which went bust in 2018 in Willits, I love that he always crys environment when for years he and his armed thugs & goons defended the forest practices of LP and GP and Mendocino Redwood Products, if Sheriff Allman really cared about the environment then he would send his troops out to bust Mendocino Redwood Company for spraying over 200,000 acres of Redwood forest in Mendocino County with herbicides……. but lets face, environment is just a “ruse”, this is not about the environment, the environmental concerns are nothing but Sheriff Tom Allmans ruse to gain support for his violently aggressive (clan)destine raids aimed against our local families and small mom amd pop cannabis farmers, it is an assault on Mendocino County families who were not allowed by zoning or finances to get a permit, lots of people wanted permits but Mendocino County only rewarded large property owners with large black market bank accounts to get permitted, everyone else was kicked to the curb… now they are targeting the very people they left out of the permitting process, Sheriff Tom Allman the 33rd degree freemason is nothing but a pawn and a schill in the hands of the global corporate puppet masters, once again he has turned his back you and me and on our communities and families. Shame on you Tom Allman, you are nothing but a corporate pawn now!
Hard to know where to start with this, but..,
Tom Allman is not a “33rd degree Freemason
Stores closing in Willits has much more to do with the Bypass and drop in prices caused by greenrushers
Not a lot of support for diversions from the Eel for more product when the price drop was caused by oversupply. Economics 1A.
A drop in prices by green rushers, I don’t think so . When the 99 plant guidelines disappeared so did the money and the growers with balls . They went on to greener pastures and took there big spending with them . I’m not buying it economics 1A. Mendo cracked down too hard on its people . Prices may have went down but you could get away with growing a lot more in other places . Now as humboldt is cracked down on the economy is failing there now like Willits . Take away the means to make money and there is no more money. Emerald triangle economics 420 .
15 100′ greenhouses is a “Family Farm”. That’s news to me, unless that family was sending its children to Harvard, is paying off a multi million dollar property, a few brand new gro-dozers and luxury cars, exotic vacations and a full work crew… 60 plants or so is a “family farm”.
Amen Grandmaster! I too am thrilled with the corruption, theft, destruction of families and environment, endangerment and abuse of children, promotion of big corporations and corrupt politicians (as well as conflict of interest) meanwhile obliterating “mom and pop”, theft, forgery, deceit, terror, lies, and promotion of the toxicity of the logging industry displayed by the good Mr. Allman. Anyone who honestly believes that he is actually helping the people, watersheds and environment of this county is misinformed.
Cannabis is legal.
That’s funny. I wonder how many boneheads that paid thousands for a permit or black market growers voted yes? They thought it was going to be a free for all.
“Cannabis is legal”. “Cannabis is legal”. ” Cannabis is legal”.
Parrots R Us.
No it’s not. It’s taxed and regulated.
Cannabis is not “ Legal” it’s Privatized.. and Corporatized.. Enfored by Gavin’s Ganga Stick Up Crew.. LLC
Isn’t cannabis legal at a 6 plant threshold?
And is it not a business past 6 plants, requiring permitting and taxing?
Is it now legal to buy recreationally for pleasure without any license or permit?
Sounds about right.
No.. that doesn’t sound right TRB, I can go to Costco and fill my car to the brim with liquor.. but as an adult.. the state dictates that You can only have an Ounce..
Very little Legality with that picture TRB… If I want a realist amount or a healthy amount of plants.. pay pay pay..
They essentially Privatized Cannabis.. or are attempting to..
I want to scrutinize all the non Growers. Let’s figure out how they’re screwing Society out of tax money.
And then stick to them good!
What a bunch of miserable f****** do-gooders!
” Let’s figure out how they’re screwing Society out of tax money.”
Whoa there, Sheesh.
Lumping non growers together is, is … lame and barely worth the time to reply. I live under a canopy. Ferns and lilies do real good.
You are one in the masses of the uninformed, echoing “Pay your fare share”.
~i do not pay taxes becuz i care. I WILL not support warmongering – which, in the end, is what the big economic charade is about.
If you choose to remain behind in the Matrix, that’s your choice, but please stop bellyaching about something you know NOTHING about.
Do not feed the Beast anymore than you absolutely have to. And, for all that’s good and descent, stop stroking the Leviathan!
I dont want to pay taxes either…
As long as the state is using my hard won dollars to help strangers instead of my countrymen.
And not improving our quality of life.
I’m going to bark about it.
Actual native Californians are fleeing the state in record numbers.
The local oafs who disparage our culture is who I was referring to.
Let’s start with Trump and all of the corporations that pay zero taxes….
Man, the whining and huffing around in here is a crack up.
No. Let’s start in our own backyard.
~the Trump Trump Trump echoes are not a crack up, but rather distraction.
Operation clean sweep?? How about operation meth sweep and do this county some good
~not on THE Agenda.
So they should have a emergency permit for all of us mom n pop growers they would rake in the dough and we could save our pot and our dignity at afordable prices like 50 to 100$per property dont punish us for trying to survie the only way we know how we arent bad people we are just most of the population in mendocino co please everyone petition for relief and be fair big goverment everyone in favor say aye
Aye
Yeah, let’s just let the shit show greenrush carry on unabated with all its fucked upness until Humboldt is completely taken over by the assholes and concentrate on meth. Just how would you propose this would be carried out? Stop cars at the county line, search and ask for papers? Go door to door and search for meth? Put all resources towards it? Go to Mexico and tell them to stop sending their meth here?
Why is it either/or for some of you?
Fuck the greenrush and fuck the greedy Growers. Parties over. Whine and complain all you like, the party is fucking over.
Yeah, sure.
Better yet, let’s get to the root of the problem; Meth and heroin addicts. Just think, if there wasn’t such an epic demand for the shit here in the USA, it wouldn’t be here. Don’t blame cops for not finding it and arresting people, blame the addicts for creating the biggest demand ever experienced in America.
” We are at the end of an era in which lies can be used to steal from the public and the commons. We are at the beginning of an era in which truth in public service can restore us all to a state of grace.” –Dr. Naffez Ahmed –author of ‘A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization; and How to Save It.’
~our success hinges on more of us recognizing how corrupt, how arrogant, how disconnected, and how You and me don’t mean squat to the local tyrannical criminal parasites who are extorting millions –MILLIONS from us. They have no more authority than the ice cream man. They all act under the color of law, i.e., impersonating public servants -AND then they have the audacity to give themselves a raise with the money they extorted from us! They must Stop advocating the overthrow of our republic form of government –NOW.
It’s just the corporate world’s turn.
We all understand how the corporate world works,
Right?
this can be carried out by placing the national guard back where they are desperately needed: the border. Where 90% of the opiates (namely fentayl via The Sinaloa cartel) and methamphetamine in this nation are trafficked through the ports of entry.
Yes. Send the National Guard back down to the border to intercept the meth and opiates coming across the border. But I suppose that’s too risky compared to the easy targets up here.
Could these raids come from from the fact that the President of the Fish and Game Commission Eric Sklar owns a multimillion dollar vertically integrated Cannabis Company called Fume Napa? Why is there no media mention or. Coverage of this fact…. there is a huge conflict of interest when the President of the Fish and Game Commission stands to gain millions of dollars by ordering busts on unlicensed cannabis farms which has already increased the price per pound by three fold this year, not too mention legal cannabis companies buying up as much black market pot as they can get their hands on. Flow Kana was buying from both white and black market by encouraging legal farmers to buy from their black market neighbors as was many local cannabis processing companies…. the game is rigged in Greasy Gavins friends interests, these busts have nothing to do with the environment, money for Greasy Gavins friends companies are the bottom line in this community assault.
Meet Greasy Gavins right hand man Eric Sklar who also owns a cannabis company called Fume Napa, whose interests does Mr Sklar represent, his cannabis company or the people of the State of California?
Do a story on this conflict of interest to inform the community, there is a huge conflict of interest from the President of the Fish and Game commission who stands to make millions by the artificial price guarantees by ordering his troops to raid illegal cannabis competitors to his legal cannabis company Fume Napa
Ask yourself why did law enforcement let things get so out of hand in Humboldt? I asked myself that for years.
Now you know. Create the problem in need of a solution. The solution is legalization takeover by money interests and politicians. You think they were going to let those billions of dollars available pass them by? Oh hell no.
Welcome to the new game-same as the old game. It’s old as dirt and likely to change.
NOT likely to change*
Yes. And bear in mind, with the mention of federal legalization by Mr. Trump, Allman and co. sure are foaming at the mouth for those asset forfeitures, as their former bonuses may soon be a thing of the past.
So, Not only is the Fish and Wildlife President a Cannabis Company owner, but he is also a winery owner according to the Fish and Wildlife website…. what could be more of a conflict of interest? Why has the media not made this connection yet, it is of vital importance to the cannabis community to know where the heavy handed enforcement and assault is coming from….
Can we just post this pic here which is the bio of Eric Sklar the President of the Fish and Game Commission?
Of course it’s all corrupt. If there’s money to be made, corruption will follow. Don’t know what anyone can do about it though.
Politics and Corruption, like carrots and peas…
Resist..
They don’t care,Resist all you like. They can change laws. They have the money to take over any market they want. Look what they did.
Resist anyway…They don’t like that… we can change laws too.. I have seen it happen..
I would just imagine from the tone of all the above . They were written by most folks who were shittin yella or were not even here during, “Operation Green Sweep”. Seriously, you have no idea what it was like. Now a day, they see a green house and they land and go from there, back in the day . They would find a green house,real similar to the one I got and just like they did me three years in a row. They would come down and hover right above the roof of your house and blow the green house apart and then land,,maybe. Or just laugh and do the same to your neighbor. We never had mega grows back then, all weed was “Mom-N-Pop” produced. We had topo maps on all our walls and communicated via cb radio. Remember, “The Emerald Triangle” was originally a C.A.M.P. location call. Green Sweep brought us night hawk helicopters and 50 cal. mounted on both sides with armed troops. I used to wear more chamo than troops in Nam just to water in the morning,as did my children, who are way grown now and still remember where they came from.,never went at the same time, never went the same way, never did anything the same way. Yeah baby,,just like the good old days !
Some of us still get it, binbearda4.
Your viewpoint here is highly appreciated.
Peace
Remember who was in office when the good people of northern ca got royally screwed!!! Elections are coming they take our livelihoods we take theres.unless theyve stolen our democracy completely because from wher im sitting its sure starting to look that way !!!!
Politicians are all the same…
Democracy, yeah, that’s what the U.S. Inc’s., Military Industrial Complex brings to foreign lands . . Free-dumb and Demon-ocracy
A majority doesn’t tell you what is right or wrong, your conscience does.
I’d say we have an oligarchy. A corporate oligarchy. A commercial oligarchy. A corrupt oligarchy. A collapsed oligarchy.
You nailed it..
Even if they are “the same” vote ‘em to the curb anyway.. the last Governor election was like 60% Gavin Newsom, and like 40% Cox… That Is not a 💯 win by any means.. If the Democrats are going to act like fools, then what is truely the difference? As of right Now.. Next Governor Election… I will be voting Red For Gov.. absolutely.. I don’t see the Democrats playing for the North Coast Court.. not at all.. I would rather have a gov. I knew I was against…
Since 2010. 2nd district House Member was a Republican since like 1990… Actually..
And statistics on Arnold’s election.. Most of the state went red.. even Humboldt I beilive..
So many wah Wahs commenting about how it was and how it is, get a real job and quit selling drugs to kids etc. old school or not grow the f up Humboldt. Oh did I mention quit selling drugs………….. There is such a thing as a clean life.
Remember who really killed our forests and destroyed our rivers, Companies like Pacific Lumber, Hammonds, Louisiana Pacific, Union Lumber Co, Georgia Pacific, no way any cannabis growers are cutting ancient 2000 year old redwoods down by the acre for wealthy New York bankers who owned these mills…. Cut-over land of Pacific Lumber Company, looking toward Eel River. Camp Coolen on hill to left at top of Bridge Creek incline. The trees left standing indicate the line limiting the up-hill and down-hill yarding. Trees within these limits are destroyed in the yarding operations.
And the beat goes on…
From the AVA…FIVE SENIOR Mendocino Redwood Company foresters for Mendocino County have reportedly resigned under as-yet unexplained circumstances, but sources say there’s been a major shift in the Fisher family’s attitude about their huge holdings in Mendocino and Humboldt County. From what we’ve gathered, the Fishers have brought in a crew of young forestry managers from Red Emmerson’s Sierra Pacific company. For decades, Emerson has been famous for his high cut rates in the Sierras, particularly lately with the heavy logging of burned out and dead and dying forests. Last we heard Emerson was the fourth biggest land-owner in the United States, much of it forest. In addition, he’s dominant in National Forest logging these days, especially fir and the less commercial species. His crew has a well-deserved reputation for their contempt for government and environmentalists and regulations of any kind.
MRC’S NEIGHBORS who have enjoyed reasonably serene relationships with the company in recent years are worried that the new regime will make it difficult for them to deal with MRC on roads, easements, property lines, harvest plan reviews, etc. Recent price increases for redwood lumber have further changed the local timber industry, leading to rumors that MRC is refusing to buy already cut timber from existing logging jobs in an effort to force down their cost and give them higher margins for finished milled lumber.
THE FIRE HAZARD implications for the standing dead tree issue also worries neighbors, and outstanding legal questions from the State Attorney General about the legality of Mendo’s ballot measure declaring standing dead trees to be a nuisance leave many unsure what the new regime at MRC may mean for fire prevention plans, evacuation routes (through MRC land?), and the extent of help MRC may offer if or when there’s a fire on their vast Mendo holdings.
MRC’S SHIFT to the Sierra-Pacific model of forest management has been going on for several years now, back to MRC’s 2014 hiring of Bob Mertz, former Sierra Pacific executive, followed by Dennis Thibeault, climate change denier, also from Sierra Pacific. This latest series of departures and new recruits is not likely to endear Mendocino Redwood to locals of whatever political persuasion.
More Real ENVIRONMENTAL TRAVESTY by. The real destroyers of our redwood ecosystem, the timber companies which clearcut our ancient redwood groves… perhaps readers do not understand the scope of what was done to these forests way before any cannabis was ever grown in these forests, Our local Sheriffs can cry environmental ruses all they want, but the sheriffs have always been the protector of th e companies who actually did and do destroy our forests…. View across north fork Eel River, across Camp Grant to Pacific Lumber Company cuttings of 1928-30. University of California experimental plot, NW 1/4 NE 1/4 Sec. 1 T2S R2E, 1/4 mile to right of straight line along Hammond Lumber Company timber. See also #5546. 8-6-32. E.
View across north fork Eel River, across Camp Grant to Pacific Lumber Company cuttings of 1928-30. University of California experimental plot, NW 1/4 NE 1/4 Sec. 1 T2S R2E, 1/4 mile to right of straight line along Hammond Lumber Company timber.
Not surprised. These are the games of desperate, uneducated fools. Wanna go big w/o proper paper work ( which I don’t completely agree with e.g. taxation for police protection on a naturally occurring plant)… This is a risk you take… I lived in Humbolt for years and I love that area and the Humble culture… The culture that respects the land, neighbors, visitors and invest and all good things. Those who go to Humbolt to otherwise…. I wish you the best of luck on your journey in life. I hope you gain clarity of what is truly important. Sending love to Humbolt, the salmon, the trees, bugs, stewards of land and water, small businesses, and the soil… Among other things of great importance.
Prop . 215 . Look where we are now ! What a joke .
Well yeahhh, trot out some people dying of cancer in need of “legal” cannabis medicine and the sympathy vote was overwhelming.
The interests and politicians that are taking it over had this planned all along. Big money is in it for the long game. When all is said and done they will eliminate just about everyone in Humboldt that isn’t affiliated with them. It will take a few years, they’ve got time and money on their side. This was the “legalization ” plan all along.
~and you nailed this one.
Of course.. Saddly true.. Y.S… the unelected money interests that actually run the behind the scenes show have been rigging economies all across the globe for years.. Humboldt and the triangle are no different.. But despite these injustices there have been successful attempts to maintain small farms throughout the world.. I actually beilive Humboldt and triangle can possibly be successful.. I am a bit of an optimist… But that doesn’t mean we should let them berate us.. I think we have a very intelligent creative community, and that is one of our strengths.. Nothing is perfect.. But I actually believe that Humboldt and Triangle can actually be a force to contend with..
I always wondered how Obama bought an 8mil DC home after 8 years in office at a yearly salary of 400k plus expenses….
You may be on to something here….
that is how the people who do the bidding of super wealthy class get reimbursed.
Was he making moves on the side??
Moon lighting?
It’s kinda like people who get a little untaxed income… round here, can afford to play the corporate government con game…
Here’s what Forbes (Excellent conservative media) says: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/01/20/how-barack-obama-has-made-20-million-since-arriving-in-washington/#292703c35bf0
Where are they today
Hey Kim can we please get an update for northern mendo.
Sorry, gone today. I’ll try to do it tomorrow.
Did u ever get a chance to update mendo info??
Working on it.
Thank you!!!!
Yesterday was Day 3 on Spy Rock and they also hit the back of Woodman. Same forces. Operation Clean Sweep. Mendocino Voice article states they will be doing it in Mendocino for a week so a couple days left? I’m left thinking they appear to only have 1 unit total w/ all the agencies since Humboldt and Trinity sheriffs were doing stuff yesterday w/o the other agencies. Call the bar in Laytonville for today’s news? I’m sure there are people taking refuge there….
Let me get this straight: You keep growing, year after year, while the price of your magic bush continues to drop and there is a very real chance that your crop and everything you worked for could go bye-bye due to pigs, mold and/or ripoffs? Sounds like a solid plan.
It’s all very intriguing, really, from a bigfoot – sociological viewpoint: Dum-dum smokes magic bush (probably started when he was 11-12 years old because parents were dum-dums), ruins his dum-dum brain. Dum-dum therefor can’t hold down a real job (or even apply for one?) and struggles to make it in the “real world.” While sharing a spliff with his dum-dum buddies, Dum-dum hears about an amazing land where money grows on trees and decides to try his dum-dum luck.
Unfortunately for Dum-dum, the cash flow is now a trickle (too many dum-dums) so he decides to go bigger; slashing manzanitas & sucking the creek dry. But Dum-dum is scared – what if the big bad pigs come around? Dum-dum needs to go legit. But he barely saved enough money from last year for a permit (he really needed that new dum-dum truck and hey, even a dum-dum needs a 2 month vacation in the tropics), so now he’s flying by the seat of his dum-dum pants… not to mention he went and got his dum-dum girlfriend pregnant (hard to remember your condom when you’re “healing the nation” at Reggae on the River), so now he’s blessed with little dum-dum mouths to feed.
The permit fees and rules are really harshing his dum-dum mellow, so he decides to go even bigger out back, while maintaining his permitted show-grow up front, hoping the piggies miss Dum-dum Ranch in their sweep. Nope. Dum-dum gets slapped with fines. Fearing that his family will blame him for a crappy christmas, he blames everyone else for his Dum-dum problems. The neighbors were going too big and drew unwanted attention. The pigs were out of line… The governor (who Dum-dum voted for) “illegally” teamed up national guard choppers with the local pigs. Not fair. Not Dum-dums fault! But his dum-dum wife takes his kids and leaves anyway. What’s a dum-dum to do? … Mix some more soil and plant some more magic bushes.
Poor Dum-dum. If only he could put down the bong for a minute, he might see that he had all his dum-dum eggs in one dum-dum basket.
Fact: if you pay taxes within the emerald triangle, you are, in effect, paying for the terrorism of your friends, neighbors, and community, at the hands of a legal crime syndicate. Its nice to ignorantly believe that Mr. Allman has the health of the county and environment at heart, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. He and his underlings, historically, have created more environmental damage and destruction/endangerment of families, children, and pets within the community than before. They raid indoor grows, breaking lights outside, releasing their toxic waste, kicking over diesel fuel and chemicals, and then hold the homeowner responsible for the damages. They murder family pets. They point automatic weapons at children and throw pregnant women on their bellies and cause miscarriage. They rob actual tax paying citizens, with legal jobs, of their tools and livelihood, all in the name of “asset forfeiture”, forcing them to pay exorbitant amounts through the court system to get them back years later. They kidnap children from safe family homes to be assaulted and abused in the foster system for weeks until their parents finally can locate them. Mr. Allman has historically taken bribes only to raid those same people later (no mention of said bribes of course). He and his henchmen call such forfeited assets “bonuses”, often stealing legally obtained assets and tools and not accurately reporting them as such. They gun (pun intended) for easy areas which they believe will be lucrative, sitting ducks as it were, instead of focusing primarily on the areas which we all know to be occupied by the Mexican cartel, murderers, and organized crime. Areas which most citizens have seen the absolute utter destruction of: plastic, tarps, appliances, cars, synthetic fertilizers, and a plethora of garbage dumped. Not only do they neglect these areas due to cowardice, as mentioned above they actually further the destruction of the environment with the trashing of areas raided. Now, more facts…Mr. Allman is directly in cohoots with our lovely Gavinator. The same man who, instead of maintaining the presence of the National Guard at the border to help fight the 90% of heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine which is smuggled through our ports of entry, has decided that there is more money to be had busting non-permitted marijuana growers. Marijuana vs. opiate and meth smugglers and human trafficking…makes sense. Furthermore, our governor has vested interest in what is known as the “white market” and by knocking down the black market, increasing revenue for himself and his big business cronies. Slavery, child marriage, segregation all were once legal. “Legal” does not mean ethical, righteous, or moral. In this case, it’s just plain wrong, as Mr. Allman is hiding his theft, corruption, and terrorism behind terms such as environmental health, safety, water diversion, etc. nothing could be further from the truth. Just like the death of the timber industry, Mr. Allman is doing his integral part to decimate the area and it’s well-being. I only hope that more young people will consider careers in the law enforcement, criminal justice, and political fields in the future so we may hopefully find a solution to the actual issue of environmental hazards, sans the corruption we have watched transpire under Mr. Allman’s watch. Pick up your trash, take care of your neighbors, create the local and global community we all desire, and chase out the proverbial greedy garbage.
Proverbial greedy garbage like our lovely president of Fish and Game. Incestuous relations much?:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sonomanews.com/business/9457645-181/napa-valley-vintner-eric-sklar%3fview=AMP
Any updates on this weeks activities? Are they still going? Esp in Mendo would be appreciated.
Weird how all reports stopped. Nothing here, nothing from Mendocino Voice. But I know they kept hitting Spy Rock and Woodman past the last report- up into Friday. Now…crickets. Guess we should get back to CB radios and KMUD Community Safeness and Awareness call-in reports?
Sorry, I was gone much of Thursday and Friday with some personal issues.