Helicopter Overflights the Last Two Days Worry Southern Humboldt Community
The helicopter captured on film over Salmon Creek. [Photo provided]
The helicopter, both yesterday and today, flew low and either under radar or was in some way blocked from showing on FlightRadar.
Two readers have told us that there was no tail number either.
Cannabis growers, legal and illegal, in Southern Humboldt, who cultivated during the days of heavy CAMP raids which began in 1983 and even heavier raids which used the National Guard during Operation Greensweep in 1990 have an antagonistic relationship with helicopters and low flying planes as flyovers were used to scout for marijuana cultivation areas since 1975. The flyovers have been the subject of legal challenges in various forms since 1977 which have led to some curbing of earlier practices.
Presumably the same helicopter as the one shown above as it was taken roughly a half hour earlier than the one a relatively short distance away in the Salmon Creek watershed. [Photo taken over the Briceland area today.]
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Just saw it at 12:15, rolling into the airport in McKinleyville….
Army recon. They’ve been flying since May. With in two weeks they will raid the illegal grows they find yesterday and today… Good luck folks!
While you might be right about the raids, it ain’t the army if it’s surveillance.
CA Air National Guard has eight of these UH-72a helicopters and would be the likely culprit. Any identification number would likely be in black lettering located low on the side of the fuselage at the rear. These are also sold as the civilian Eurocopter model EC135, but not in the military color scheme (among other not so obvious differences).
Air guard doesnt do surveillance.its DOJ, HSI.AND LOCAL TASK FORCES..but yeah your right about the raids…lol..prepare to pay fines…lol. good luck dopers..
Is HCMET.
MET is an interagency task force.
As part of Interagency task forces the CA Air Natl Guard has assisted with surveillance and raids for several decades now.
Includes Officers & Agents of HCSO, APD, EPD, FPD, CA AG, CA Natl Guard, DEA, & likely more
We legalized your dope a few years ago, what are you afraid of ? They wont come down and get your 6 plants.
Republican Catch Phrases 101
“Dope”
Some people will bitch about a good night’s sleep.
The folks casting aspersions are the same group who refers to the generations who allowed our country’s manufacturing might to be sold off in bulk as “Boomers”, and “The Greatest Generation”.
The same who’ve become xenophobic to the point of self ostracization.
The same folks that have allowed our government to become a non-functioning shit show.
The same folks who’ve tolerated women and minorities making less money for the same job as they.
Thanks for decades of poor economic policy and zero forethought!
Enjoy what you have, and try at the very least to be a source of positivity in your later years, because you’ve guaranteed that everyone else’s will be fucked.
I heard them say they were going to get EVERYBODY this year!!! Pull your plants!! It’s the only sure way to be safe…
They could let it burn like Mt. Shasta Subdivision and shoot the fleeing growers. Trinity Pines East and the Lava fire collide.
Who was shooting at the fleeing growers?
Law enforcement shot and killed fleeing grower that supposedly brandished a firearm. Sounds pretty tense on the lava fire
It was reported he was trying to get back in and fired at the officers first. What do you bet they raid a ton of those people after the fire is out
good riddance to the scum..nice job LE
Anybody interested should check out the satellite images of that Juniper Flat area near the Lava Fire. I’ve never seen so many greenhouses and gardens blown up all next to each other. It makes The Pines look mellow! How does that happen? How do they just let that happen while people in Humboldt are being beat up over much less? Do the Hmong have some deal that makes them untouchable?! It’s crazy…https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7581/
Holy shit!!!!
Yeah, that’s crazy-level.
Thanks for pointing that out
I do miss the stories every year. “My friend works out at the same gym as a bunch of cops. One of them works on drug task force. He said this year, they are hitting everybody hard”…… The year goes by and only 1% of the grows get busted, LOL.
They already did the math. Even if they busted 100 grows a day in the triangle, they couldn’t make a dent even after a full year of everyday busts. These guys would be lucky to hit 15 farms in a day as a whole team. Of course the cops in Humboldt think they are going to go hard this year. They have been saying that for decades. They are going to do busts from Aug-Dec and once again only 10 people will be arrested.
Well, I heard the Government is just looking for the best gardens to recruit the best master growers of triangle for big pharma grows after federal legalization.
If you have an illegal grow, you better pull your plants and go! I am sick and tired of legal and illegal pot growers. They are a blight on our society leading may folks both young and old onto hard drugs. Enjoy the flights going over your gardens and placing you on camera (be sure to smile), and GPS. What are you going to do when they come for you. Blue green algee of the mountains!
What do you know about illegal growers? Probably just what you hear on the news. Best to comment on issues you are informed on. Many ‘illegal growers’ are the real roots of this community, who don’t desire to pay the government for protection, nor do they want water board officials or DFG on their property. They are not government bootlickers and they prefer to do their work in the shadows and know how to keep one step ahead of the latest tricks to catch them. They are the smarter and the more interesting of the growers that I know. Just my 2 cents
You forgot to mention it’s also a way for someone lower educated with no real world skills to make some actual money. Let’s be honest, no one does it for any other reason that you or anyone else has mentioned other than to make it rain while sitting back and watching plants grow. Don’t believe me? Grow something else in agriculture..why not? Because there is no underground willing to pay . Whatever, dirt bags will always be just that.
Some people are dense jut to their owns perceptions. This [herb] is over 2000 years old and has always had medicinal properties. Those comments can only be prejudice unfounded stupid thoughts of old and very naive people. Yes, everybody can use a job!! Don’t be stupid, get educated above high school!!!
My favorite “dirt bags” are Fox Farm. Always thought that would be a great ad, this is one dirt bag you’re gonna love. As I always say, it’s the one industry actively moving topsoil back upslope.
Couldn’t be truer
I have chased them off some of my Island Mountain property, that’s how I know!!! I don’t think that your comment to me is worth 2 cents because you don’t know me.
You really need to educate yourself before calling the calvary to support your personal agenda.
Hey Ronald, let us know when times get tough, because one of us illegal growers would love to give you a pile of cash to rent your property ?
Keep religion out of it! Sorry, Kym, I couldn’t help myself. My bad.
I think you meant alcohol…. But yeah Ronald, continue with your 80s misplaced and outdated logic……
Every drug addict led themselves to that point, every single one of them.
It’s pretty clear that these guys are working with sheriffs and other government agencies to find illegal growers and maybe squatters growing on public lands.
Hmm, is Biden going for a big federal crackdown on legal states?
I caught one at the ukiah airport with his transponder on for a breif moment. It was the army and the designator was “RECON7”
Maybe it was training?
Slow flying fixed wing also circling the redwood creek drainage and maple creek today.
Helicopters!!!! Lookout below!!!!!
It’s a seven year siege on illegal weed. Even tho’ it’s been decades of siege, now they can utilize high tech to spy & fine ppl into losing their land. They did it to the Native Americans & they will do it to the homesteaders, especially with the upcoming Safe Homes Act. ( where you need a permit, even retroactively) for every structure over 120 sq ft., and everything must pass code!
From the 25th.
Airspeed indicates it was a helicopter.
Nearly 100% no chance under direct Army chain of command but nearly 100% chance is California Air National Guard.
They have worked with CAMP from the start.
And are likely working directly w/ HCMET & COMMET, CA AG, & DEA, as usual.
Flightradar only tracks aircraft w/ ADS-B transponders and, in SOME areas, MLAT.
Definitely not Army. That’s in violation of Posse Comitatus. National guard under direction of the Sheriff most likely.
I do believe that all aircraft are required to have the ADS-B transponder this year. Flightradar24 and other companies are willing to block information upon request from VIP, LEO and military aircraft. And, of course, military aircraft can just turn it off.
Not even slightly close to a military helicopter.
It’s a Lakota, and yes military, guessing California National Guard.
Yes, Lakota UH-72a scout helicopter.
Hello the planes been flying all week, hence choppers next, and lets remember the hour to hour satelitte photos Humboldt paid for. Get ready.
I wonder what’s the point of paying for a helicopter to fly when satellite imagery is so good? Is it intimidation? Or just using up that budget?
I’ve seen the satellite images that the county uses, and it’s very detailed and current.
I’m guessing intimidation and job security. There is absolutely no reason to fly anymore
Cannot get a warrant on satellite imagery. Need actual visual for search warrant. Satellite imagery can generate an abatement letter but not a warrant…. I would advise anybody who can’t stand the heat to get the hell out of the kitchen
dont you just love our doper community..they are so upstanding that law enforcement is raiding their shit…see any pear orchard owners running for cover.with trash everywhere.plastic shitty hoophouses whinning about prices..shitty industry..we vote no to doper neighbors..leave and go somewhere else..
It works for training.
They only get images once or twice a month. Check out Humboldt county GIS. It shows the history of all pictures taken of any given parcel.
Yeah, ” pull your plants, they are coming in tomorrow ” ?? Same phrase different decade !
Flew weitchpec yesterday as well around 3pm
Back again today in Southern Humboldt
This helicopter was also circling homes with no cannabis. It was so incredibly loud, and flew twice over my home SO low, that it terrified my cat. Super disrespectful of residential spaces and pets. Not acceptable. It is illegal to fly below 500 feet. I hope people call and complain.