700 Pounds of Cannabis Confiscated From Vehicle in Laytonville Area After Occupants Flee, Says DFW

Fish and wildlife truck

[Department of Fish and Wildlife image]

On October 15, 2020, a local Department of Fish and Wildlife warden attempted to stop a vehicle on Laytonville’s Spy Rock Road. Three occupants of the vehicle fled on foot. A search of the vehicle resulted in 700 lbs of cannabis being confiscated.

A witness described the vehicle as a white van.

Janice Mackey, Public Information Officer for the Department of Fish and Wildlife, told us the wildlife officer initially attempted to make a stop for vehicle code violations, and “upon activating the emergency light the vehicle stopped, blocking the roadway, and three subjects exited the vehicle and fled on foot.”

Mackey said,  “No one was apprehended.”  

Upon searching the abandoned vehicle, Mackey said officers located “[a]pproximately 700 lbs of cannabis.” She explained,  “No further information is available as this is part of an ongoing investigation.”

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Bozo
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Bozo
3 years ago

They kin smell the dopee !

Followed a U-Haul van from Willow Creek yesterday and I’m still stoned.

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

How are you still stoned? Was the U-haul on fire?

T-Gro
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T-Gro
3 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

Bust there asses!!!

James Vinson
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3 years ago
Reply to  T-Gro

Who cares about the bust so long as it doesn’t affect the supply chain of the legal cannibus stores. If the bust affected the prices of what I currently pay at legal cannibus stores then I would be angry. If they can afford to grow 700 pounds of cannibus, then they can afford to apply for a license to grow. Give the government their share and they will be cool.

Roxann Tuttle
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Roxann Tuttle
3 years ago
Reply to  James Vinson

That was their share 😆😆😆 they went looking for it

Baby jane
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Baby jane
1 year ago
Reply to  James Vinson

That’s not true. The amount they charge for permits are so far out of control that its impossible to make a living. It’s so bad. Every plan needs to be tagged. You can’t just make your own babies.. you have to get them from qualified people… who is qualified you ask? The wife of the inspector. If you don’t buy from them you get flagged.. they get to demand their price and they push what they want grown. We tried to buy 5 strains of something and we ended up with 14 different types of what we didn’t want. Who do we complained to? You guessed it… the husband of the wife who is our inspector. Its insane. We are on food stamps after lasts years loopholes.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

😂

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS NOT WELCOME
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GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS NOT WELCOME
3 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

Fish and Wildlife Officers have absolutely zero business on Spy Rock Road. They have been told numerous times by locals and residents that they are not welcome. They are ONLY out this way to steal cannabis and harass our local residents and workers. They have been told to stay away as Spy Rock Road is a private neighborhood. Since when do they care about “vehicle code violations”. They have absolutely no business harassing and bothering our community. Stay out of Spy Rock Road, Government Officials are not Welcome!

JRWhitmore
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JRWhitmore
3 years ago

Obviously it is NOT private if the California Vehicle Code was being enforced. And any warden, any cop love to hear people tell them to stay away from a certain area. That is code for we are breaking the law…..Great works Officer, way to make the rats flee….

Hire better mules next time
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Hire better mules next time
3 years ago

It was your unlicensed product left on the road wasn’t it?

darrel
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darrel
3 years ago

Spy Rock rd is a county road, Not a private road. RGR is a private neighborhood and a private rd. Thats why Spy Rock is plowed by the county and all road work is done by the county.

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago

It ain’t “Newbie grower’s club road” and any true locals recognize that. It’s the newbies that think that they’re somehow entitled. Get over it and be cool on Spyrock you idiot. If someone gets busted on Spyrock like that, they’re just plain stoopid in the course of breaking the law. How can you whine about THAT in some self-righteous way? Go back to Michigan and try the same shit.

Roxann Tuttle
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Roxann Tuttle
3 years ago

And there’s one of the customer complaints right there…😆😆😆 Sorry jk

Buster
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Buster
3 years ago

It can’t be said enough…never commit a misdemeanor while committing a felony.

It ain’t rocket surgery.

HOJ in Training
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HOJ in Training
3 years ago
Reply to  Buster

The supposed code violation is total BS. There has been an F&W a-hole posted on 36 near Trinity Pines for at least 10 years. I know many people that have been stopped, harassed and had a dog sniffing their vehicle, mostly because of racial profiling and nothing else.

Getting sick of all of the horse shit the government enjoys dishing out!

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
3 years ago

Racial profiling, great god!

Roxann
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Roxann
3 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

Ummm they fled the scene…Native or Hispanics don’t matter we just know it’s been made clear they were caucasian I believe

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago

When you’re growing illegally and making money that way, you are dishing out your OWN horseshit, that’s the reason you’re making money, you’re risking “government horseshit”, otherwise known as getting busted or harassed for illegal activities.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago

“mostly because of racial profiling and nothing else”

Oh, sure thing.

Most honest, ordinary Americans also enjoy it when the Feds confiscate your illegal dope.

Bob
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Bob
3 years ago
Reply to  Buster

One of the first laws of being an outlaw there are many more. Bet you know them all Buster well said.

Big Bang
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3 years ago

Damn vans…

Rox
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Rox
3 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

I know right. Van on dirt road which is a back road at that…..hmmmm that’s suspicious right there

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago

Vehicle code violation”. Most famous excuse in the book. Too bad under-educated public servants that are supposed to worry about deer and rabbits and fish are allowed to act like cops

Guest65
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Guest65
3 years ago

Exactly right the fish and game have been bending the rules and pulling people over making fake excuses that don’t make sense then asking to search your vehicle. Ive heard numerous stories and experienced it.

Bust them all
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Bust them all
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest65

Because people are carrying drugs illegally and should be busted!

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest65

Are they BREAKING the rules? Not so much. Which is MORE irritating, someone who is breaking the law completely to the point of a felony or some ranger cop leaning on the regs to bust an obvious situation? I don’t like ranger cops on a power trip, but what about growers making a shambles of any pretense of recognizing the law? Sorry, they earned the bust, and self righteous bullshit about them getting busted is just lame.

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  Joe

It doesn’t hurt my feeling at all “700” pounds got taken out of circulation. I’m the last person to cry when the game is played. But who hasn’t been pulled over for a “Vehicle code violation” by some [edit]on a power trip. But just driving on spy rock is considered suspicious

Bob
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Bob
3 years ago
Reply to  Joe

Do the crime do the time simple as that no whining allowed.

Decriminalize drugs
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Decriminalize drugs
3 years ago

Actually Fish and Game officers require a bachelor’s degree to be one. So out of law enforcement they are one of the smartest, considering local law enforcement only need a GED or high school diploma and no felonies.. which is rediculous I think.

Frank Pembleton
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Frank Pembleton
3 years ago

[edit] book smart may make you intelligent it doesn’t make you smart.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago

Exactly.

Despite their constant claims to shrewdness and business acumen, no illicit grower in northern California has the education of a Fish and Game warden.

wheresthelove
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wheresthelove
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

Circular logic here. Do you even know if you know any? Seems some F&G wardens also definitely grow or grew illicit pot.. Maybe now they just steal it. Some growers here are LEO, politicians, teachers, doctors and physicists.

Humboldt County Line
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Humboldt County Line
3 years ago

This is all I can contribute:

Joe Mota
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3 years ago

The idiot probably had a brake light out or expired registration

Me
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Me
3 years ago

Totally!

Toad eye
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Toad eye
3 years ago

You killed off all their habitat now they have to worry about your code violations..

VHDA
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VHDA
3 years ago

The Department of Fish & Wildlife are responsible for protecting the environment & the animals that depend on clean water & safe habitat. This includes mega grows that destroy their environment, deplete & poison the water

I like stars
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I like stars
3 years ago

Processed or wet? Trim or buds? There’s a big difference between losing 700 lbs of fresh cut, wet bud on sticks, 700 lbs of trim, and 700 finished, manicured units.

Bob
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Bob
3 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

Only thing that matters is the weight when it hit the scale. What’s your point?

Casey
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Casey
3 years ago

The DFG enforcement officers all have college degrees and are state officials just like CHP. Get over it.

Local Farmer
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Local Farmer
3 years ago
Reply to  Casey

Federal officials actually.

Your Mom
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Your Mom
3 years ago
Reply to  Local Farmer

CA Dfw is state. Forest service and blm (the land managment one, not the riotious terrorist group) are federal.

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago

“Vehicle code violation = 3 Mexicans driving a van

Buster
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Buster
3 years ago

“Dave’s not here…”

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  Buster

That made me smile! Thanks. Good sense of humor

Paul Windham
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3 years ago

I don’t know how many will get the joke but for sure Dave’s not here.

Christian
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Christian
3 years ago
Reply to  Buster

No man, it’s me, Dave
.

the misadventures of bunjee
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the misadventures of bunjee
3 years ago
Reply to  Christian

I’m sorry David. I cannot allow you to do that.

Chongs Bong
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Chongs Bong
3 years ago
Reply to  Buster
Hitler
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Hitler
3 years ago

Right hahah

G-funker
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G-funker
3 years ago

It was probably full of reggie

pensions_matter
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pensions_matter
3 years ago

De-fund!!!

Mendocino Mamma
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Mendocino Mamma
3 years ago

Grower works all year…”Yeah boys lets send the whole crop down the road in a shady as fuck broke ass van. Can’t see nothing going wrong, everything will go as planned. The taillights out, tags expired yeah its all good!!!” WTF is wrong with people?

Christian
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Christian
3 years ago

Agreed, a little bit of planning goes a long way.

Bob
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Bob
3 years ago
Reply to  Christian

Just goes to show what idiots reside and grow there now. It was so much more fun and the people put soul into their mom and pop grows. All about becoming filthy rich now days regard of what it takes no ethics, morals, or integrity required.

Me
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Me
3 years ago

You got that right! People are idiots who don’t think before they act! I wouldn’t let my weed go in any truck, van, or car, without getting my COD 1st. Then, its up to whoever bought it, to get it out safely. Not up to the hard working farmer. 😤Hmmmmmmmmph!

Paul Windham
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3 years ago

I don’t know how many will get the joke but for sure Dave’s not here.

Dinky
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Dinky
3 years ago

At least Chris has a job and pays taxes. Criminals need to be turned in, everyone thinks so, unless you are one. What’s with the animosity towards people who want to prevent this once beautiful place becoming an even bigger shit hole?

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago
Reply to  Dinky

Spoken like a fool who doesn’t know “dog killer” Brennan, who was known to shoot children’s puppies right in front of them. He got relocated for work, became too unpopular around Laytonville. If you think California is a shithole maybe ya oughtta move! Just sayin’.
Move to Trump country where you can preach about morals, ethics and patriotism even as you don’t have any.

Dinky
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Dinky
3 years ago
Reply to  Joe

I love how, if I’m not frothing at the mouth like the rest of the village, someone like you can say I don’t have morals, ethics, or patriotism. It’s so absurd it would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. See, if Chris shot a puppy for no reason that would be wrong. Otherwise, he has protected livestock and pets from predators for a lot of people. The thing is, a lot of roaming dogs do horrible damage to other animals. But everyone says their dog would “never do that”. You’ve obviously never had to put down a defenseless goat or calf that’s had it’s throat ripped out by roaming packs of dogs, and I hope you never have to. Now that Chris is back the county will have services to help with dogs and wild predators. It’s so sad that people neglect their dogs’ safety. I too wish we lived in a better world. But continue with your name calling Joe, how dare I say something you don’t like?!

Bad dog owners
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Bad dog owners
3 years ago
Reply to  Dinky

+1 for your response.

Cattle ranching was here first. Plus, all the irresponsible and disrespectful dopers can’t seem to learn what a leash is, or train their dog a little. They just move out to the cuts, get real scared, buy an expensive dog (but don’t train it or restrain in), and then their pot takes up all their time and the dog gets into trouble. It’s in no way the dog or the ranchers fault. it’s one of the oldest globally reknown rules: Dogs bothering livestock will be shot. It is the fault of the owner for not giving a damn about what the pet is doing.

Dinky
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Dinky
3 years ago
Reply to  Bad dog owners

All true. It’s an ugly reality and many dog owners think their dogs need absolute freedom and can do no wrong. Unfortunately, human negligence has led to many dog deaths that could have been avoided. It’s simply not right for defenseless animals to be gutted and left to die slowly. If animals are in our care we have an obligation to protect them. Goes for our dogs too.

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  Bad dog owners

Any idiot can read the signs coming into mendo stating “any dog harassing or molesting livestock will be shot”. That’s not the issue. It’s how this man goes about shooting animals (from public roads, often from his moving vehicle) which is the problem.

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago

His nickname is and forever will be “Dog Killer”. Maybe somebody else can say why….I knew somebody who ended up on his ex-wife’s piece next door. They thought they were going to blow it up with mega plants. Ha Ha Ha! Well…they were shady people and it didn’t work out for them. Luckily they didn’t have a dog. The dog would have been the only sympathetic character in this story.

Dinky
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Dinky
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

We know the nickname. People get a taste of blood and run with it, kind of like packs of dogs. It’s horrible that so many people think it’s fine to let their dogs run wild. Sometimes, there are definite consequences. It’s definitely not the dogs’ fault.

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago
Reply to  Dinky

“Dog Killer” shot a kid’s 11-month old puppy who was at the property owner’s line even as the child screamed for him not to. Then walked up and delivered the coup de grace with a second shot right in front of the kid. Documented.
Also went to Chinatown and bought live invasive bullfrogs and stocked his pond with them for eating/hunting. Protecting the environment? Not.

thetallone
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thetallone
3 years ago
Reply to  Joe

He has brought his cop and F&W buddies into the area, tresspassed, and engineered the busts of numerous mom & pops. Goes on the radio and bitches about the commies, while his own job is taxpayer funded to benefit the rich cattlemen and big landowners. A total hypocrite. Banned from one of the largest businesses in Laytonville for murdering the family pet in front of their young children. Shot it with a shotgun, running around yelping until he finished it off. Something those kids will never forget. Please go away. A militia in Montana would welcome you with open arms.

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

Testify!

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

And to anyone defending this man as a champion of ranchers and wildlife conservation. Are you cool with baited snare traps designed to kill bear and mountain lion left unattended on private property without owners consent? Or buckets of antifreeze left in the woods and fields that attract unsuspecting dogs and cause countless coyote to suffer horrible deaths, all in the name of protecting livestock. He’s no hero, just bloodthirsty

Dinky
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Dinky
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

There are so many different versions of the crying little boy- shot
baby puppy dog story. I wasn’t there, so I can’t speak to it, but I guess you and Joe were ? Yes, there are some versions that sound not ok. So, now my choices are to take up the pitchforks with the rest of the village or to move to Montana? I think I’ll stay right here and take care of my own, including keeping my dogs under control so they don’t terrorize a neighbor who is trying to make an honest living.

thetallone
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thetallone
3 years ago
Reply to  Dinky

I’m not down with dog owners letting their dogs run free and destroy livestock, deer and other wildlife. If those dogs get shot, so be it. Just calling out cruelty, heartlessness and hypocrisy. Speaking of wildlife, this man has killed more wildlife than everyone else in California combined, to make the world safe for the wealthy ranchers. Bears, cats, coyotes by the thousands.

thetallone
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thetallone
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

But wait, there’s more. While he was getting his neighbors busted (one had to pay $50 grand to DA Eyster’s extortion scheme for the privilege of not getting a felony charge-I wonder if Chris got a kickback for those?-or was he doing it to satisfy his own sadistic jollies?-maybe both), it should be remembered that he was and is living on property that he paid for with pot money when he was a grower himself! He used to have long hair, went to Reggae. I think after he became a born-again redneck, he should have turned himself in, and donated his property to charity or the gov’t or something.

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

Thank you for pointing out his property was paid for with marijuana $. A true fucking hipocrit. A special place awaits him and all who support his idiocy in hell

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

Makes me wonder if the deadheads & fake Rastafarians he tried so hard to be apart of in the late 80s & 90s had been nicer to him. Maybe this all could have been avoided haha

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

I know some people in Montana. Pretty sure their militia has higher standards than that. Please don’t brushstroke all militia as cruel or bloodthirsty (or racist). Some are actually good folks.

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago
Reply to  Dinky

Dinky- I understand that unmanaged and bad dogs packing and killing livestock must be put down. I’m 35 years past green around here. It’s sadly justifiable. But what Dog Killer Brennan did was over the line. I’m guessing you are not a local to that neighborhood or you might slow down your defense of him. I don’t think you and I have an argument over the proper handling of bad dogs.

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Having been a lifelong resident. You won’t find many sane individuals around that even talk to this dude. Maybe a few who fear they will next on his snitch list if they don’t kiss ass

Lost
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3 years ago

Not to be confused with the realtor in garberville

Perspective
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Perspective
3 years ago

What a joke, F$G pulling a vehicle over for code violations! How many times do they do that on a “regular” road, none.

NoGovernment
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NoGovernment
3 years ago

OK. So WHO owns the vehicle confiscated? Are they in jail this morning? If not, did the police just rob these folks. I agree hundreds of pounds of pot isn’t legal in any fashion, any way, any time.

So Mendocino County: Has there been an arrest based upon the VIN or plate number? If not, why. I think we deserve an explanation…..

thisguy
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thisguy
3 years ago
Reply to  NoGovernment

You can’t just go arresting someone without proper identification. Are they sure the owner of the car was the one who was driving and bailed out? Hold up —No government? but you want folks arrested? how’s that jive?

Scooter
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Scooter
3 years ago
Reply to  NoGovernment

Yes it is. I have sent tons down the highway, all over the state. Legal as Beer or scotch.

Bob
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Bob
3 years ago
Reply to  Scooter

I faced 40 to life back in the day and 20 to 40 another time for tons lots of tons you just gotta love snitches and thank god for good lawyers. You guys have it so easy and you still screw up. Just Playing in the band now peace.

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago

Sadly, 700 lbs. does not denote a “Ma and Pa” grower. The old off the grid lifestyle and low key grower has been replaced by a “grab the money” grower newbie who cares about little else but money and trendy lifestyle. These newbies come from elsewhere to cynically exploit growing and morphing a hippie thing into a hard core take the money and run situation. They are creating a petri dish for every kind of cesspool dweller.
Playing the game as hard as they do, they completely deserve Fish and Game’s busted taillight excuse for a bust.

Steeze
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Steeze
3 years ago
Reply to  Joe

Seriously though, the amount of money you can make off of an acre of herb vs. literally anything else is a joke. What’s wrong with growing anything? Everyone seems to think growing pot causes this huge amount of environmental destruction but growing grapes, or nuts, or rice…. no no, that’s completely fine. You do realize real mega grows are the ones destroying thousands of acres at a time to grow food that more than half of goes to waste, right? Or dairy farms that are dumping millions of gallons of milk because the supply chain got a lil off…. grow an acre of herb, dry it, bag it. No waste.. it has nothing to do with hippies. It’s people, trying to make a living. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s unfortunate that the lifestyle attracts a lot of d-bags, but that’s life.

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago
Reply to  Steeze

Nothing wrong with making a LIVING, making a KILLING wrecks it for people making a living. Gravy-grabbing like greedy motherfuckers poisons the waterhole in every possible way, economically, environmentally, socially, violent crime, etc., a petri dish for scum

I miss the ma and pa
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I miss the ma and pa
3 years ago
Reply to  Steeze

Ummmm geez maybe you haven’t been to a typical grow in a while. Plastic greenhouses, dep tarps, nut bottles, and litter everywhere! All left to disintegrate in some really remote place that had no trash before! You don’t see trash blowing around most mega farms, and typically they don’t do huge illegal logging projects to get more sunlight for their illicit project. There’s no secret that agriculture isn’t always a pretty thing, but they aren’t trying to hide it by putting it up a steep remote hillside. Not to mention all the fert runoff in fire prone areas, and lack of vegetation control

Me
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Me
3 years ago

Not our farm! We were Clean green certified organic! Licensed and compliant, vetted into the program by the county and state of California.
Wtf did it matter? Nobody in CDFA,and the bcc and building and planning, etc. did nothing when we got robbed and raided 2x in 17 & 18. We have since surrendered our hard earned licenses and split! Fuck MCSD and fuck PV!
Were gonna fire up our licenses in a better, less corrupt town,far away from The North! L8r losrs😁

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago
Reply to  Me

Legalization changed the whole paradigm, the culture has been perverted made it trendy and all about the money and attracted newbie losers like you, yeah move far away if the only thing you want to do is grow a buncha dope for a buncha money! Later city-slicker losers!
It used to be a low-key thing that augmented an offgrid country life. It slowly changed and exploded with 215 in ’02, gotten worse since, can’t put it back in the bottle, bleh.
It’s too bad you tried and failed to be legit, pot culture ain’t no good no more and the parasites have been attracted to prey on the people out for the dollar.

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago

like I said, it has morphed to be all about the money, not about living in the country. Larger or smaller or smaller carpetbaggers, it’s newbies from other places out to take the money and run.
It’s a cultural thing, poisoned by the money

Steeze
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Steeze
3 years ago
Reply to  Joe

I mean, I moved here in 09 and the prices were still 3500 for mediocre herb. It was Gallegos’ fault for coming out and publicly stating they would not bust 99 plant medical grows. Like, you literally have to be crazy not to blow up a 100×100 area, which is freakin nothing, at those prices and ease of production. You could totally supplement your life with something small at those prices, sure, but not everyone wants to work their whole lives, and 10k sq feet ain’t freakin nothing.

You must be new here.
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You must be new here.
3 years ago
Reply to  Steeze

Dude, I have decades old apple trees that require no more maintenance than the rainfall they get and annual pruning. And zero apparatuses needed. 100% organic grown before it was a sales point. I also don’t have to truck water and soul UPhill. Or one gram of fertilizer. And If i’m hungry, I can eat the apes. Learn to grow sustainably. You can make money on it. Oh wait, you wanted that third house in Costa Rica…

Bob
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Bob
3 years ago
Reply to  Steeze

Well said new here.

dogglife
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dogglife
3 years ago
Reply to  Joe

There’s a strong possibility that was fresh cut being taken somewhere else for drying and processing. So after drying bucking and trimming it would be less than a 100 lbs of bud.

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago
Reply to  Joe

Joe-I hate to say it but I kinda agree with you. I can’t work up much sympathy for these mega-growers. We are not #sameteam at all! They used the framework we painstakingly built to launch their greed game. The morph has made lots of greedy assholes rich and has sunk many good back-to-the-lander mom and pops. It got worse with this fake “legalization”…That book needs to be written

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

But how to make it work? It’s a clusterfuck that NOBODY can solve. Wow, it’s weird to feel like an old fart wishing for the good ol’ days that’ll never return!

Bob
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Bob
3 years ago
Reply to  Joe

For sure Joe but it was stupid to think if you legalized it the government would be a savior. Instead the list is too long you all know what it did.

avenuerider
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3 years ago

De fund Fish and Game!!!

where'sthelove
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where'sthelove
3 years ago

Might be a lot of defensive F&Gs and family and friends of commenting on this article. Looks like the “bug” for riches has got F&G too lately. Hey, if you’re going to steal pot like all the other officers then maybe you shouldn’t complain or be surprised when people start hating on you and distrusting you.

People LIKE and respect officers who’s main purpose is to protect wildlife. They don’t trust habitual pot confiscaters, especially when it looks like fishing and the people targeted are on a remote dirt road and aren’t in the act of committing a wildlife crime. I don’t care that someone is now missing 700 lbs, but it could easily have been a small timer and that small timer’s entire year’s work.

Bozo
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Bozo
3 years ago
Reply to  where'sthelove

(Sighs) It’s not Fish and Game anymore.
That part is long gone, along with the old fashioned well-regarded wardens.

Now it’s Fish and Wildlife. State officers, about the same as Highway Patrol.
Now mainly used to corral dope farms… and write citations for free fishing on the jetty…
(that used to be ‘legal’.)

Like I said in the first post… if you can smell dope outside the van you’re looking for a LEO stop.

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

Well…we had Pritchard in Laytonville area. Not ever a “respected” warden he was always looking to bust grows. But it has been a shame to see Fish and Game become the instrument of oppression. I used to respect them so much….Now they taste the money- the huge fines, the confiscated (and “lost”) cash and the ultimate power of making up new laws that take away peoples’ land…yeah- they are corrupt as hell now and are not to be trusted at all ever. I’m sure some people in that agency are honest – I’m sorry for them.

Rod Gass
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Rod Gass
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Yep.

We the unwilling lead by the corrupt, have installed $64, as the law of the land. Of course, Newsom needs ever increasing numbers of boots on the ground. He’s got but one method to accomplish the increase …

CHP, CDFW, CALFIRE are now all armed and dangerous marijuana prohibitionist taxpayer funded public agencies. The County & Local agencies have bigger problems just keeping people from walking down the middle of the public streets to worry about a bit of pot growing.

$64 is a State of California (Newsom)rollout of a destructive proposition that 60% of us voters would correct, if possible. I doubt that we’ll see that day come. The taste of tax revenue to a bankrupt California must be heaven sent.

It’s actually bad the state had to manage this “legalization” so counter to basic human decency.

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago
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Well…it will be superseded soon enough. I can’t wait to see what Biden and his Big Pharma cronies have in store for this multi-billion dollar industry we the people painstakingly built up and so ignorantly gifted to them (yes- that’s sarcasm!!)

Bob
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Bob
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

If Biden gets elected that will be the least of our problems. For real!

wheresthelove
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wheresthelove
3 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

It’s still the same department technically. They just got sick of other officers calling them “the FaGs”, so they changed their name.

Kris
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Kris
3 years ago

Someone owes someone 700 pounds! If they don’t come through with the cash
I’m sure well find their skeletons by the river bar as all the others.

joe
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joe
3 years ago

The reason there are illegal growers is because they get PAID bank to break the law. You break the law, you take the risk of getting harassed or busted by the government. If that wasn’t the case there would be no money in growing.
700 lbs in a van, wet or dry is ripe for a bust. Quit whining like some victim because they got stopped, that’s the biz they’re in, that’s the game, that’s why they’re out there tearing up the mountain side to grow far more than they need. Get rich quick or maybe get busted, that’s how it works, that’s the game.
Growing more than a hundred pounds illegally in no way makes you better than the law, period. It makes you a TARGET for the law and if they nail you, take your lumps and quit whining, you knew the rules, that’s why you’re breaking them.

2pac
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2pac
3 years ago

ive been reading these posts..there is a real problem in america now.fake news.including kym kemp.how could you allow unverified un factual gossip to be streamed on your site.Chris brennan did none of these things .these evil doers have said.and you allow it.jeapordising his life.you are a tired liberal gossip collumnist who enjoys risking lives at the expense of others.

cb
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cb
3 years ago
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Mom?

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  2pac

I’m glad the truth got out if only for a minute. There’s nothing fake about any of these posts regarding “dead dog”. Only thing fake is the name u claim

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago

Ps. For kmud listeners. The side show that calls in to Thank Jah It’s Friday as “angry or passionate” is the man in question. These are all well known facts in laytonville.

ohthatguy
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ohthatguy
3 years ago

Thanks.

Eliza Onnme
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Eliza Onnme
3 years ago
Reply to  2pac

I didn’t know the MAGA crowd listened to Tupac.

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Farce
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Farce
3 years ago
Reply to  2pac

2pac- I don’t think anybody is threatening Dog Killer Brennan. It would have happened years ago. I appreciate that people are speaking up. He wore out his welcome in Laytonville through his own behavior. And we are a VERY live-and-let-live town in regards to perspectives (rancher/grower/hippie/redneck/hunter/vegetarian/etc.) We even know that cops must do their jobs and sometimes that means busting the weed. Fair enough. Nobody is threatening Dog Killer, nobody is callously setting baited and untended traps on this news site….BTW- I agree with your other comment. Laytonville has become a seedy place. But…it always has been. When I arrived in mid-70s the loggers were fighting the Indians all the time at the bar, longhairs got pulled out of their cars and had their hair clipped off and THEN the crank started showing up and things got worse…it’s always been a dicey place where you best stick to the good, honest folks and maintain your integrity and reputation.

Luke Warmwater
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Luke Warmwater
3 years ago

Busted by “wardens” in my garden on Spyrock mid 80s. They are law, any law, enforcement officers first and foremost. They have unlimited powers in open fields, where we live, to trespass, cut fences, cables, chains and locks on any gate as part of their “investigation” into any host of crimes including vehicle searches. No law enforcement officer, including CHP, has more authority and power and upheld by the courts.

2pac
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2pac
3 years ago

get a real job pain. stop selling dope to our town and kids.criminals always whine and cry when good people shut them down.look at laytonville today compared to 1970.it is a dump site now for drug dealers and criminals[edit]

thetallone
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thetallone
3 years ago
Reply to  2pac

Yes, get a job as Nature Exterminator. Even though other, less lethal methods have been proven to work. As a side gig, you could turn in your neighbors for fun and profit! Let the taxpayers foot the bill while you keep the world safe for environmentally destructive cattle ranches. Maybe the county will cover for you, and pretend to look into alternatives, then double back and renew your contract, over and over. But it’s not corruption. And it’s not dangerous to keep a deranged gun nut on the federal payroll. Not thinking of anyone in particular, just generalizing, you understand.

Entering a World of Pain
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Entering a World of Pain
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

Literally that could be anyone lol. But no I think I’ll just keep doing evil and selling “dope” to children. Pac is seriously out of touch if they think one single grower in lville sells even an ounce of product to a local. Guess they haven’t driven around lately. All those skunks get way overpopulated every october

thetallone
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thetallone
3 years ago

Zacktly.

Mendocino Mamma
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Mendocino Mamma
3 years ago

To the commenter above talking about how 700 pounds would be 100 lb. I feel there’s a lot of wiggle room in this article. Was it 700 lb in totes? Was it stacks of wet plants stacked up in the back of the van? Was it pre-packaged pounds? Was it bucked down in bins or was it still mostly on the stem? And the general equation of drying is 50% of weight. So I find that number that they are using in this article highly speculative. Without a little further clarification.

Mountaindeer
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Mountaindeer
3 years ago

It’s so sweet that the raving psychopathic lunatic has so many defenders. It is unfortunate that he has made such a name for himself, and I know from my experience that many of the stories have truth to them, however, even though he holds the title of of the local villain and is allegedly tickling the buttholes of many of the fishing game and Mendocino county sheriff officers, he’s not responsible for “every” bust that happens on spyrock road.

NeighborsNotEnemies
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NeighborsNotEnemies
3 years ago

Lol if ur doing time over this you need to re evaluate ur life. When in doubt send a scout, if it’s fish and game, use a flame.