National Guard Helicopter in Mendocino County Skies Yesterday Looking for “Unlawful Grow Sites,” Says MCSO
National Guard helicopter in Covelo helping with eradication efforts last summer. It looks similar to the one spotted in Mendocino County yesterday. [Photo provided by a reader]
He said the overflights were a collaboration between Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and the California Air National Guard.
A resident in Laytonville said they spotted the helicopter circling around 500 feet in the air.
This reporter saw a helicopter matching a similar description landing at the Ukiah Municipal Airport around 10:45 a.m.
The helicopter’s route did not appear on FlightRadar24.com, a reliable eye-on-the-sky app that tracks aircraft movement across the world.
In the past, sheriff departments throughout the Emerald Counties have used the National Guard to help eradicate marijuana. In 2019, the Guard assisted in eradications in at least Trinity and Humboldt Counties. In 2020, they assisted law enforcement in at least Mendocino County.
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Hide your 9 plants everyone!
I’m just playing, but seriously….
Not to sound like an environmental hefty lefty…. But ….. Wouldn’t a unmanned drone or pretty much anything but this massive helicopter be more economical and environmentally feasible…
Sad to see a taxed dollar used to chase an untaxed quarter.
Could’ve just hopped on the greyhound bus. Illegal grows aplenty right along the main highway, more than will be busted in a year. But hey , helicopter rides are fun and it only costs tax dollars not real dollars, right?
Spot on. You could just drive down county roads and see them. You could use the satellite and see them. You could use fixed-wing aircraft and see them. OR…you can spend as much money and blow out as much fuel as possible and do it by helicopter. What a bunch of assholes who waste our tax money- they deserve no respect because they give us none.
Farce and T, I agree. For a govt dept that is trying to clean up the environment, they sure use a tremendous amount of fuel and lots of pollution coming from the helicopter. Looks like they’re having fun though. I wonder if the decibels affect the spotted owl and other wildlife habitat that they claim to “protect”. What a joke this is!
They have to do training flights anyway, so they do this to get training and get something else done at the same time. No extra fuel used..
Hey don’t be responsible and logical, those type of statements aren’t welcome and may be censored by the administration and host(jk KK is awesome) and will not be received by the rest of the members of the ‘conversation’ in the “Echo Chamber of Victimhood”
Beyond that, nobody is reading this because it’s 2 weeks after the article, but why not throw out that burning a couple hundred gallons of fuel pales in comparison to the energy waste of any single large grow busted, at any number of stages.
Thank goodness it’s reason!
I had a brother-in-law who was an elected sheriff in one of the biggest counties in California. He conceded that the war on drugs was a joke, but he said boy was it fun. They got to dress up play war and trade adrenaline rushes as they were the first one in after breaking down the door.
It was probably more fun back when it was mainly unarmed back-to-the-landers.
We like War…
I know a guy who knows a guy who…
Sure you do.
” But hey , helicopter rides are fun and it only costs tax dollars not real dollars, right?”
So so true!
also gettin’ their mandatory flying tome in
Drones can only legally be flown where the pilot or ground crew can visually see them – so no, not usable for this.
That, and, with everyone on here talking about shooting down drones, they probably figured no one was going to shoot at this.
https://kymkemp.com/2021/05/25/laytonville-residents-on-alert-after-guerrilla-drone-pilot-seen-flying-over-rural-properties/#comments
How much fuel does a Blackhawk use per hour?
Most likely not being used for the purpose reported, rather this is a cover story…for what true purpose? I don’t have that answer, but to me, at first reading, this sounds like a believable cover story.
Its typical fear and psy-ops campaign by MCSO. A campaign to terrorize and instill fear in the hearts of our communities. Thanks Supervisor John Hash-hack
I remember those days of the low flying blackhawks.
Good thing the weed is legal now, right?
I remember seeing troops in garberville parading there bust up and down the strip. Does anyone have a picture of that?
I think the barber had it on the wall. Gosh it has been so long.
Using the national guard to bypass various laws and regulations is of itself a concern.
The fact they use the very same justification this very day, as in the 1980’s to fly and intimidate is preposterous. They have used the HIDTA classification as a civil flog.
I remember the Huey’s and have the personal pleasure of gettin buttstocked in the back of my head as a teenager. Ah, yes, watch’in Daddy get mauled by 3 or 4 of them and mom gettin dragged through the flower garden.
I remember one helio being shot down during Op Greensweep.
Go back to moonshine.
Helicoptor rides, eh?
~the spirit of Pinochet lives!
seriously, you can view the area on google maps and arrive at the same conclusions
You could view our place in rural Mendocino County on Google Maps; but being just the general public, and Not a LEO,(Law Enforcement Officer) Since approximately mid 2019?, we are no longer able to see updated satellite google maps of Mendocino county… I don’t KNOW if this is a local, county- cannabis-enforcement related thing, but I strongly suspect that it is, due to the talk I have heard about it during the last 6 months of Mendocino County Board of Supervisors zoom meetings I’ve been listening in on…(with increasing dread, anger & frustration at them…)
lol, they fly it around and then send a convoy with a chipper. CAMP Light, less buttstocking and more waste.
Only took a couple of years for Mendo to figure out how to get that chopper in the skies.
How you legals doin against all that corporate monkey juiced weed. Telling ya 500 a pound cause it’s gettin near triple on the traditional market. Lol, but yea there is a serious glut, lmao!!
Bust those fuckers, all of them. I just made a donation of 200k to help mcso eradicate gardens. Small change to them but they told me it would help greatly.
Only 200k?! That’s almost enough to hold a meeting to explore possible options for potential future actions. And a pre-seminar on how to best publicize their great efforts. Thank you for the donation towards helping them meet their goals of focus and discussion and flying around in most expensive fashion! Remember- We Are Going To Get Them All!!! (MCSO motto since 1981)
Eat shit , the black market made you
200,000. What a waste. Donate to anyone and you’ll get a “we’ll put this to good use, thx”. You just hustled yourself lol
I call bluff .
And now chapter two of “Weeds: Legalization” begins with the “country mommy and daddy” losing the legacy forged over 30 years from sweat and toil so that Chad’s dad can fly in once a week to buy up the neighborhood at auction.
….while their idiot children prance about and embrace “terroir” and “branding” and Flo Kana
Show us a recording of what’s actually going on in Mendocino county Mr. sheriff !
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https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Jackson-County-flyover-shows-pervasive-cannabis-grows-Sheriffs-Office-says-574408821.html
Let me guess. Seen everywhere except Covelo
LTTR – on the contrary, they were here in Round Valley the day before, and then again yesterday. Two days in a row, I guess because we’re speeeshul.
Seriously has any legal farm gotten in any trouble for selling weed on the black market. I’m dying to know
What about Quasi-legal growers that straddle the fence by being permitted for and recording the sale of a certain amount, beating their chests and expounding legality, while selling 30-50% of their actual crop on the black market?
Tough for a helicopter to tell, eh?
“Sanctuary!!” reveled the Hunchback.
I’m still waiting to see what happens when they raid and trash a property and beat the residents only to find the huge grow-dome is full of actual tomatoes. Has it happened? Anyone know? Seriously, I want to know. And was it made public?
Heard a similar story back in the 90s of an elderly couple that were raded by Camp for their vegetable garden in their Greenhouse. Dog shot, water line cut, typical s***. Not sure if it was true though.. I did witness them do that to my father’s house in the late 80s, although he was growing 30 plants or so. They cut the water line every two feet from the tanks to the house, stole his scuba gear, a 38 special and a bunch of cash. Then they thrash the house like you see in the movies s*** everywhere.. He was big into ham radio back then so he new they were coming. We jumped on the 250 and went around the back 40. I still remember how f****** pissed off he was sitting there watching through the binoculars as they thrashed his house. What a fond childhood memory…
Well,bill hay up eureka Hill road in PA got erroneously raided back in the late 80s or early 90s. Not sure if it was camp or sheriff but they found nothing and he got a big fat settlement. Heard it was a million plus. That’s pretty big money in the 90s.
When I saw the headline I figured it was an Odd, old news article…
Does anybody else think Sheriff Kendall is a scumbag for bringing in the National Guard for this publicity event?