[UPDATE] Minor Traffic Collision Leads to 778 Pounds of Processed Marijuana Located Inside a Cargo Trailer

Wall of totes. Michael Shearer

Marijuana, found during a traffic stop near Miranda in Humboldt County, shown in an open tote. [Photo from a reader]

This is a press release from the California Highway Patrol. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:

On May 21, 2020, at approximately 1205 hours, Humboldt Communications Center received a call reporting a vehicle towing a cargo trailer, driving recklessly on US-101 near Redcrest, causing a minor collision. Garberville Area officers located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop on SR-254 at Maple Hills Road. Upon contacting the driver (Manuel Turchan) an investigation was conducted where approximately 778 lbs of processed marijuana was located inside the cargo trailer.

Deputies from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office assisted with the traffic stop The driver was cited and released.

UPDATE: To clarify and quell some rumors, the marijuana was confiscated and the vehicle and the trailer were released to the driver.

Earlier Chapter: Large Marijuana Bust Occurring by Miranda

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Elvis Costanza
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Elvis Costanza
4 years ago

After you work your ass off to grow that much weed be sure and hire a non-idiot to transport it.

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
4 years ago
Reply to  Elvis Costanza

Eh. No big deal, just well over a million dollars in product, the season is still young.

Willie Bray
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4 years ago

🕯🌳All I can do is laugh. I smoke and hate to see so much good shit go to waste but there’s so many stupid criminals in Humboldt this is what happens. They drive trailers that can be picked up by satellite’s. Then they drive stupid. What a waste. 🖖🌍🐸And what’s with all these totes, you people don’t think they haven’t looked into large sales of them,idiot’s. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸What’s with the purple totes.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Joe
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Joe
4 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

Can bread be stupid? I thought bread was just bread.

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
4 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

Totes are the least of the problem. They work well and prevent crushing and moisture damage. It’s legal to buy them and no paper trail if you pay cash and buy from different stores. No record or reporting requirements. No problemo.

What IS idiotic is hiring morons for drivers or having unregistered rigs or not having regulation lights like brakes, turn signals, plate lights.

Willie Bray
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4 years ago

🕯🌳There you go they look suspicious going down the road. To plain. Need to make them look more like a work trailer than a weed trailer. 🐸🌍🖖

Ceramic spike
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Ceramic spike
4 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

I always thought that the clean cut guy with a new giant truck, with no tools and no dirt was always a dead give away.

Fortune
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Fortune
5 months ago

Lol the driver was the owner he didn’t hire anyone that was supposed to come to me and never showed up😭😂

Jsteeze
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Jsteeze
4 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

You realize uhaul charges 3-6 bucks for a cardboard box, right? At $8 from Costco, and now everywhere really, it’s a realistic move if you’re moving and would rather invest a couple hundred bucks into stackable totes for your stuff than cardboard you’ll likely recycle because it doesn’t move or store nearly as well. So the idea that they’re being tracked is a jahaooke.

Also, it’s hard to tell by the wording, but they fled the scene right? Caused a minor traffic accident and then were located? Am I correct Kim?

So of course they searched it lol

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
4 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Might not even have been aware of the accident he caused.

Redwoodstump
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Redwoodstump
4 years ago
Reply to  Jsteeze

I guess you’re new to the game. Buyers don’t like the smell of cardboard on the weed and if the weed is properly cured it will soak more moisture out of the Properly cured weed and make it to dry and it will smell like cardboard they don’t even want you using paper bags wake up.

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
4 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

You need a Bulgarian flag willi….

Prioritoes
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Prioritoes
4 years ago

Meanwhile in Eureka a heroine addict hooks another kid on heroine… priorities

thesteve4761
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thesteve4761
4 years ago
Reply to  Prioritoes

Is that a new brand of chips?

I also like heroines.

The Collector
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The Collector
4 years ago
Reply to  thesteve4761

I’ve been hooked on heroine since I was a kid, her name is Wonder Woman.

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
4 years ago
Reply to  The Collector

Wonder Woman is gay btw…. she hates men

Breaded and baked slowly
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Breaded and baked slowly
4 years ago

No soup OR bread for THAT driver!

Sandy Beaches
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Sandy Beaches
4 years ago

What happens to the confiscated marijuana? Can the law enforcement agencies sell it?

Legal lol
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Legal lol
4 years ago

Ok know how could they claim this bust when a guy showed up with papers and they supposably let them drive away with all the totes and just watched them drive away with it ?????

Cannabis Is Legal
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Cannabis Is Legal
4 years ago

Cannabis is legal.

Buster
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Buster
4 years ago

Get pulled over in Utah hauling that load and see if cannabis is legal.

Dummy
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Dummy
4 years ago
Reply to  Buster

Did utah vote cannabis legal 2 years ago?

No. California did, idiot.

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
4 years ago

Cannabis is legal….. and is going for 2500 a p!!!

Moving soon
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Moving soon
4 years ago

I love these totes. Such pretty colors. Where to get them at???!!!

Sha9cbs ql
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Sha9cbs ql
4 years ago
Reply to  Moving soon

Head shops

Permit What Permit
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Permit What Permit
4 years ago

Technically, it doesn’t matter if the cannabis was grown legally because the growers can not transport it without a distribution license. These legal and semi legal farms are having trouble doing things the new way. Take for example my neighbors. County permit, no state. Drives in clones bought outside of the mtrc system, plants in a deforested dirt patch, runs generators at night and lights with no cover. They also don’t have permitted water. Why does the county not enforce rules? I know the answer. They want that tax money more than they want compliance. The county should be held liable for the environmental damage they have allowed to take place and in most cases permit such damage.

Is it true, legal?!?!
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Is it true, legal?!?!
4 years ago

It might not be true but from what people say that live really close that they were so bummed sitting there for hours trying to make sure that the count and paper work was wrong, but they weighed the totes one by one and and then got to Watch them load em back up and drive away not in the sheriff trailer, and with a ticket in hand?!?!

Buster
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Buster
4 years ago

So less than 800 lbs. fits some loophole in transportation laws?

Anonymous
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Anonymous
4 years ago

This guy is an A-1 dirt bag. He and his chick are meth heads who tried to rob us. They lost custody of her kids. And spent a little time in state prison. Now he’s out doing the same thing. He deserves to be in prison. And quite frankly so does she.

Sam smith
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Sam smith
4 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

That’s Skip. He will never change.

velz
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velz
3 years ago
Reply to  Sam smith

SKIP!!! things haven’t changed lol