MET Conducting Aerial Investigations This Week

“This week, Sheriff’s MET deputies conducted aerial investigations throughout the county utilizing a helicopter,” Samantha Karges of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office confirmed this morning.

We’d requested information on what appeared to helicopter overflights in the Whitethorn area and a convoy possibly associated with a helicopter out in the Dinsmore area. Karges didn’t provide any more specifics at this time.

On Monday, though,  a reader provided us with photos of vehicles he saw in Garberville. He described them as a “fuel truck…a marked us forest service truck and an unmarked 4 door Chevy.”

He said, “I would guess this…is going to support the operations with fuel in remote locations.”

To our understanding, in order to get search warrants, deputies have to see marijuana growing with their own eyes so they often schedule flights within a short time of planning to serve the warrants. Karges did not however, confirm these flights were related to marijuana operations.

They drove from the south all unmarked armed people.

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Poor Farmer
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Poor Farmer
3 years ago

They circled the valley on the 36 yesterday twice then left. One of those military type of helos

Hmm
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Hmm
3 years ago
Reply to  Poor Farmer

“The 36”

lauracooskey
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lauracooskey
3 years ago
Reply to  Hmm

Lol… they circled the the valley on the 36 on the yesterday twice… One of those the military type of the helos.

John Henry
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John Henry
3 years ago
Reply to  Hmm

That’s how they talk in Los Angeles.

Jerry
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Jerry
3 years ago
Reply to  John Henry

“The Mad” “the trinity” “the Klamath”

Are humboldt natives really this stupid? Rent-free…

Local farmer
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Local farmer
3 years ago
Reply to  Jerry

You forgot the van duzen, the eel and the mattol. Yep, we’re really that stupid, Jerry. [edit]

Dave Sky
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Dave Sky
3 years ago

A&P Helicopters based out of Richvale by Sac, has Bell 206’s B3 and L3, UH1 slick,and a Hughes 500D. Paint schemes are not anything like military. Gville does not have Jet A so contractors must have a refuel truck and possibly a field mech with them during deployment.

Trashman
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Trashman
3 years ago

Get some

Fedup
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Fedup
3 years ago

Your permit $ at work !

Pharmstheproblem
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Pharmstheproblem
3 years ago
Reply to  Fedup

Right, without issuing the permits!

Corrupt county
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Corrupt county
3 years ago

Even after you pay them 150 bucks for them to tell you what you need in permitting, you pay to start the project, then you get head deep into it for them to say you need more stuff not mentioned in the first meeting you paid for. Then you make the changes, get biological surveys, engineering, moving buildings , take down greenhouses. Comply with all their requirements. Humboldt county takes the money and never gives you your permit. Their blatant lies like, “If you get your paperwork and money in by 12/31/2019 you will be growing by spring.” Oh ya all the permit fee’s are non refundable even if denied or you can’t afford to keep paying more money for more BS permits and rearrange your property again because they are corrupt .

Bill
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Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  Corrupt county

What is your point “Corrupt county”? You just described the system all us business owners go through to start a business or grow a business larger. The fees and paperwork are all associated with all the laws and regulations that this State has voted for over the last several decades. Most of it environmental regulations voted on by the environmentalists and liberals located all over this County.

Shut up and pay up!

MendoMarcus
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MendoMarcus
3 years ago

What do their helicopters look like?

FBnative
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3 years ago
Reply to  MendoMarcus

They look like kind of round things in the air with things they call blades on them!

jeffery
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jeffery
3 years ago
Reply to  FBnative

😂

Hotmama
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3 years ago

Total shake down, and now they have names.

A guy and his dogs
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A guy and his dogs
3 years ago

Typically here in Mendocino county it’s a contracted helicopter through A&P along with that truck, tail number N502HB. Blue and white Hughes 500D. Same one they’ve used for quite a few years now. It’ll pop up on Flightradar24 from time to time. Looked like the “Island” was a hot spot for flights this last week for the humboldt side. Lots of flight action on the trinity side last week.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳They were sneaking around Fortunas police station last night. 👁🇺🇸

Permit What Permit
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Permit What Permit
3 years ago

I don’t want anyone to get busted, but it sure would be fun to have them fly my neighbors. They have it way too easy right now. Zero MTRC, zero state taxes being paid, zero worry about enforcement and all with no state permit. This is happening at the same time I’m scared I will get an abatement for my legal 6. I use these comments as therapy to keep me from reacting to the shitty neighbors. They are all extraction at this point, with no giving back. Using illegal water and completely destroying the road that they put zero effort into. When in the hell is the county going to enforce the rules on these people? How hard is it? Send everyone a letter that has a county permit advising them that cultivating without a state permit is illegal and they will face the same fines as homesteads getting abatements. Why the special treatment?

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
3 years ago

Why the special treatment?? They pay fees. It’s all about the $$$ with the County. I’ve seen permitted folks that weren’t supposed to plant yet because of no state licence , plant anyways, then months later they get their state and their illegal plants magically turn legal.
County knew they had illegal plants growing.
The ongoing assault on neighborhoods continues with the counties blessing.
I’ve lived in this county for a long time and I don’t know anyone that is happy with their “legal” neighbors, especially if the grow is close by. And yes, they usually have an inordinate amount of traffic. And yes, they don’t one fuck about the impact they have.

Joe freeman
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Joe freeman
3 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

That’s the duh moment still to figure out and keep in check. Most so called legal farms only put 25% through the legal market and the other, well the other out the back door.

Palo Verde
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Palo Verde
3 years ago

I completely agree with you. I have the same problem. Ruin a category 1 maybe 2 road and the county still let’s them grow. Sucks.

You need a life Karen.
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You need a life Karen.
3 years ago

You know what I think is funny is my hater Neibghor called on me and they don’t even care lol they never flew us “hill Karen” lol. Because some stuff is so small it’s not worth their time Hater, their not gonna make a special trip for 10 plants because you called them whining like a bitch. Tell the full story We pay to have that road worked on and they Pretend like the toad isn’t there they don’t do any work to it so it goes both ways, your one sided view stinks and the disrespect can be paid right back at you watch!! [edit]

Permit What Permit
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Permit What Permit
3 years ago

This is awesome 😂😂😂

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
3 years ago

Hill Karen 😂

Bill
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Bill
3 years ago

“Permit what Permit” you obviously need to drop the dime on this grow site that is located next to you. If they are truly doing what you are saying to the environment you have an obligation as a member of this community to do something about it, end of story!

Sick of it
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Sick of it
3 years ago

It all depends on who you know, seen it happen time and time again. Someone doesn’t like the answer some unqualified twerp planner gives them, makes a call and magically they have a permit a week later. Bullshit corruption at its finest with no oversight and no repercussions, Cliff Johnson and John Ford need to go.

Yeah, sure
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Yeah, sure
3 years ago
Reply to  Sick of it

Or it goes in the opposite direction and their Planner draws up a site plant with overblown square footage for the property and neighborhood, the growers get away with the obscene sq footage and sell on the black market for a year or two before the county gets around to assigning them a realistic amount of sq.ft. Of course the county collects the fees and taxes off of the sq footage of black market weed.

Justsayin
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Justsayin
3 years ago

Yup..they flew the weitchpec area pretty hard Wednesday I believe.

Guess wee will find out in a couple of weeks what becomes of it.

Cheers y’all..

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
3 years ago

Why do they fly when they have such up to date satellite images? It’s got to be very expensive.

thatguyinarcata
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thatguyinarcata
3 years ago
Reply to  Willow Creeker

Because they need a physical witness of the growing cannabis to get.the permit.

Also, a lot of these MET types are staving of the full symptoms of their PTSD by maintaining a state of militarized conflict. For lots of young men in this country, armed conflict has become their safe space

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
3 years ago

Most grows are in greenhouses so that doesn’t make sense. Is this just a way to use up funding maybe? I always thought it was somewhat about intimidation.

J
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J
3 years ago

They flew my nieghbor hood out here in Willow creek in the hodgesen area

caliman
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caliman
3 years ago

Tell them to go to S. Oregon thats where the bulk of the weed will be coming from. Leave the mom n pops alone

Black Rifles Matter
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Black Rifles Matter
3 years ago
Reply to  caliman

Scwhaggy, powdery moldy, headier than thou Jacksonville Oregonfolks can keep it and their snooty selves up there. Fuggem. Place is a joke. I know several peeps that sold everything and moved up there, to only sell
Everything and come running back. Only thing Oregon is good for is a fresh Dungeness crab omelette, and some occasional skiing when Tahoe isn’t bangin. Oregon is where people who can’t hack it in Ca run off to, to only realize it’s a bigger sheephole than the golden state.

humboldtfullofkarens
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humboldtfullofkarens
3 years ago

from what I hear it’s filling up with people who received abatement and had enough of the bureaucratic BS. good place for people minding there own from what i can tell. way less masked sheep. to me thats what used to make this area so nice, seemed like people minded there own. now everyone mad about what the other person is or isnt doing. leave people alone and mind your own business Karen’s of nor cal

kermitpermit
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3 years ago

it was a black helicopter with red stripes

Kristi Rosenquist
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3 years ago

They were over our area on fickle hill rd for a good hour to an hour and a half. A circling pattern with hovers over each place. CREEPY.

Gifford
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Gifford
3 years ago

Too bad the hillbillys up here are too ignorant to realize their civil rights are being violated and to take these criminals to court and fight these terrorist with the legal system.

“Invasion of privacy is the intrusion into the personal life of another, without just cause, which can give the person whose privacy has been invaded a right to bring a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity that intruded.”

JB
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JB
3 years ago
Reply to  Gifford

Sue for “invasion of privacy” and in this case you’ll lose.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Riley

Gifford
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Gifford
3 years ago
Reply to  JB

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Gifford
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Gifford
3 years ago
Reply to  Gifford

Digital book burner. I posted information from a medical doctor. The Icke link was in refference to a virus isolation. You simply seek to demonize all that stand in the way of your interest and all who contradict your sheeple-ish totally mundane narrative. You’re a total tool , completely controlled by the leesh of political fashion. You’re not fooling any one with that younger looking pic either.

Raids
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Raids
3 years ago

Northeast Humboldt should prepare them selves for nieghborhood raids get ready folks the man is coming !!!

Justsayin
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Justsayin
3 years ago
Reply to  Raids

Yup, they stay busy up hwy 169 the past couple daze.