CDFW and Local Partners Serve Search Warrants in Humboldt County
Indoor grow busted by law enforcement on April 14. [Photo from CDFW]
This is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
Wildlife officers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) served several cannabis related search warrants in the Eureka, Blue Lake and Hydesville areas on April 14.
Support was provided by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department’s Marijuana Enforcement Team, Humboldt County Environmental Health Department, Humboldt County Code Enforcement and a CDFW Environmental Scientist.
Prior to serving the search warrants, a records check was conducted on the properties to determine what steps may have been taken to secure county permits and state licenses. In this case, no county permits or state licenses to cultivate or manufacture commercial cannabis had been issued.
During the service of the search warrants, officers located a large indoor cannabis cultivation operation powered by large diesel generators at one of the sites. Numerous environmental violations were documented, including two illegal water diversions at nearby streams.
Over 2,400 illegal cannabis plants, 260 lbs. of illegal processed cannabis and 11 lbs. of illegal concentrated cannabis was seized and destroyed.
Officers located a Butane Honey Oil extraction lab at the residence in Hydesville. The lab was made safe, dismantled and seized as evidence. Several individuals were detained during the investigation and released.
A formal complaint will be forwarded to the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office for review. No other information is currently available at this time.
Law enforcement in Hydesville on April 14. [Image provided by a local]
Earlier: Law Enforcement Agents in the Hydesville Area
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greed
Another honest grower on the black market targeted by money stealing government hands pays the price. This is what comes from legalization. The rich get richer and the rest get run over by you’re tax funded gestopo. Every body knows where the lab is yet it continues to operate practically in the open. Its like living in dodge city with no protection in are community with the latest events comings and goings.
%freedonald
NLM
I hope they all get shut down.
I hope all the dispensary get closed down
Soon, hard to pay rent, multimillion debt and taxes.
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/04/01/licensed-cannabis-businesses-in-santa-ana-los-angeles-raided-over-unpaid-taxes/amp/
I agree with Charlie, shut them all down! Nope Sonnyb, what comes from legalization is removal from the mountains and growing in a true agricultural setting.
Its called free market society, figure out a better/cost effective way to produce a product, and get rewarded by being able to sell more than the other guy.
Did you really just say that armed government agents seizing an unlicensed business is “called free market society”?
I’m no fan of big diesel generator run indoors, but shutting them down with the force of state violence sure as shit isn’t free market anything
lol, you are clueless. They are causing more environmental harm growing outside of the Triangle. All good though cause they were all here fucking our environment up. Now the shit growers have gone either south to southern Cali, east to Oklahoma or North to Oregon. It’s the one thing positive about legalization. We got about 20% to cleanse and I expect New Jersey and New York’s legalization to take another chunk of shit growers and a few pizza establishments, lol.
Eat your coco puffs there LL. your a shit grower like the rest.
Is that all ya got Charles. Pretty weak my friend. Yes, I consider myself a shit grower but that’s how all real growers think of ourselves. Nearing 40 years in these hills and every grower I know coulda done a better job, we all suck.
However, Main Street in every city accross the United States of America disagrees with the both of us.
I made eggs, scrambled with onions, bell peppers and jalapeno. Bacon and country potatoes (seasoned) served with avocado and tomato slices. Paid with money not taxed to local families for eggs, meat and vegetables. The Avacado and Jalapeno is from the Co-op in Eureka when I went to the city for business, lol.
For every honest and well intentioned grower there are 10 that are common criminals of the worst variety. Want to not get caught? Do how it was done before legalization and keep low pro. Neighbors that have to deal with the blatant effects of organized grows and their associated nuisance/crime across the county are just fed up. Just like a lot of things, the assholes ruin it for everyone else. No one thinks the narative of grower fortunes to trickle down sales and tax revenue is real thing anymore. It’s just a myth to justify greed at other people’s expense. We’ve seen the outcomes in the community and its not worth the cost to deterioration in safety and quality of life unless you happen to work for the local toyota dealership or are in the illegal canabiz yourself. We should only be so lucky if all this trash relocates to OK or Ny or wherever the flavor of the month grow scene is. If you’re the guy that does it right and gives back to your community, is a steward of your land and doesn’t impose your outlaw lifestyle on everyone else wherever you go, – good on you and blessings! Thats the way it should be done, but a lot of your other colleagues in the black market have consistently shit in the punch bowl for far too long and people are over it.
Blessings to you. Your words are true.
Fully appreciate this comment. Right on!
Too bad the cartels run the illegal human and drug trafficking with the blessing of the paid off politicians.
That’s real crime
Can’t argue with that 👊
Your purchase tax don’t even count considering how much you robbed the county and the working people in the county. STFU. Get a real job.
Not so fast. Forget sales tax, a grower with money in their pocket spends on goods and services. They might buy a house from your subdivision, hire a painter, bring their car to a shop, buy a pizza…
We also have professional careers in technology. Allowing for the rural humans in the Triangle to have the same technolgy as humans in metropolitan cities. Helping our community be able to educate and provide commerce to compete in our global society.
See, there ya go again assuming. I had a job and grew. I was so professionally successful; you and every human in this county, as well as Trinity and Mendo, benifits from my accomplishment. Get a real job, please, you go punch a card to feed your face while the people who really work help the lives of their community now and generations in to the future. Plus we grow dank, fat, sticky, stanky nugz for the masses duty free.
Hi J C !
Dude, I’m hungry now:)
No one from California calls it “Cali”. Go back to Indiana bub
Honest? The environmental issues are why it needs regulating.
Deception is not honest.
You can’t have it both ways. You talk about in circles
Then there should only be charges for environmental crimes, and no legal grows should be allowed to use generators, plastic ground cloth, plastic greenhouse glazing or plastic blackout tarp
Why should legal grows not be allowed to operate like all other businesses? Your comments are nonsensical. Legal grows already pay extra high fees to clean up the environment (CDFW attachment E, SWRCB annual fees, local square ft/sales tax). Your suggestions only encourage more illicit activities which brings more of the problems you don’t like.
Growing almonds is devastating to the ecology of California. It is responsible for some of the large die offs of honey bees. It also consumes more water and legally they spray toxic pesticides that leach into massive rivers and kill insects and amphibians. Sure growing weed can have some negative effects but nothing like what is already happening on a massive scale in our grocery stores. Are you this mad about the algae blooms destroying Tahoe? What about the Sacramento delta losing most of its wildlife in the last decade..
If you actually care about the environment- shop local. Spend money on things that puts it back into the pockets of citizens not corporations. Same goes for buying weed- I’d rather buy from a home grow over a dispensary any day. The effects on the environment made by home grows are insignificant compared to the massive corporate grows spanning California rn.
Citizens should be more angry that the money made from legalization is sitting in some fund not being channeled back into our communities. We’re talking millions- who knows where it’s going besides law enforcement. This issue is so much broader than wasted resources and political views. It’s corruption at face value and it’s being funded by our tax dollars at the end of the day. Stop worrying about what other people do and hold your government accountable if you really want change.
Man, an HSU student made an art/science piece documenting the decline of the ecosystems of Tulare lake and some region up by Sac a couple years ago. They created simulated aerial photos from prehistory and through early euro colonization and blended them into modern Google maps imagery.
It was startling. Tulare lake was an absolutely massive wetland complex that has now been completely drained and turned into almond and citrus orchards in an irrigated desert.
It would be awesome to find that piece again.
Tule lake?
No, it was a massive wetlands complex that covered much of Tulare County, down near Fresno. It is literally all citrus and nut trees now. Irrigated out of ever deeper wells
I think you mean “gazpacho”
“honest grower on the black market” is an oxymoron.
Considering that funds from legal grows are used to enforce unethical laws, there cant be any completely honest growers who are legal either.
I hear you, but anytime you’re involved in a system (think federal and state taxes used for dangerous or inefficient purposes) then maybe everyone isn’t honest?
They try but they get busted quick. Illicit grow’in is about Trust. Those are the ones succeeding in this industry. A solid foundation is difficult to stop. No matter how many billions you spend to enforce. No matter how many billions they spend to try and dominate an industry. They never will.
https://gothamist.com/news/unlicensed-marijuana-dispensaries-multiply-in-new-york-city-despite-warnings-from-state-regulators
It’s funny what’s happening in northeast states. Massive demand now that they “legalized” and nowhere is there enough in-state production. So even the permitted dispensaries are selling black-market weed and everybody- especially the government people- are pretending it’s all “legal”. Ha ha ha!!! And then there are not enough dispensaries anyways and their product is usually crap so there are outdoor markets springing up everywhere and it’s all unlicensed and unpermitted but it’s impossible to stop and it’s really a takeover by the public and herb hustlers who have been told the weed has been “legalized”…Quite a show of freedom and true American spirit!! (Unlike here w/ permit pansy crybabies weeping in their overtaxed cheerios ha ha)
Yes the Northeast is blowing it up. They love Humboldt/Triangle weed. Now we know why.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/04/11/think-massachusetts-cannabis-products-are-subpar-blame-growing-pains
My sister gets her cannabis delivered to her door in NYC
That’s been a thing since the nineties
At this point with a legal framework, I am starting to agree. You would be definitely correct if the legal structure was reasonable and not onerous.
Outlaws better be honest in their dealings!
This was not an honest grow but illegal…”Prior to serving the search warrants, a records check was conducted on the properties to determine what steps may have been taken to secure county permits and state licenses. In this case, no county permits or state licenses to cultivate or manufacture commercial cannabis had been issued.”
Yum, all that fiberglass floating around. Makes for great smoke.
Right unbelievable!
My thought exactly.
It’s not like there aren’t enough fans in there blowing it around, other than that it looks like a pretty clean scene.
Isn’t that mold growing on the ceilings? Can’t tell on my phone, but the darker areas in matches sure looks like it.
Possibly discoloration of the tape between the sections…
//Wildlife officers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) served several cannabis related search warrants in the Eureka, Blue Lake and Hydesville areas //
A warrant served by public employees on private land. These are incorporated areas.
Are not most warrants served by public employees on private properties? Private property that gets a warrant could be outside, or inside an incorporated area. One could get a warrant served in Eureka, or Mckinleyville right?
So, if someone leaves trash in their yard or spills oil on their driveway near a creek in Riverside is CDFW gonna drag their birkenstock scientist in with a search warrant or is CDFW just here to fuck with us humans in the Triangle?
Yes. I work in consulting (both cannabis and non-cannabis). I have worked on multitudes of projects where CDFW has gotten involved. It is definitely not specific to the weed industry.
But… they do seem to go after growers with a very heavy hand.
Thanks, it’s good to know it’s just not weed folk. They need to have a press release on non-weed enforcement. Then I might have a nice word to say about the goons.
Completely warranted and justified. Hope they keep hitting hard.
Well they ain’t hitting anything hard this is the second announcement from one raid. Meanwhile, my friend just planted 23k plants that will be cloned to over 200k when completed and that is just one crew. Snowflake enforcement at best.
They will get hit, don’t worry.
Statistically, it’s unlikely. In all the years I’ve been up here the state and county have never managed to hit much more than 1% of the estimated illegal gardens.
They sure will make sure you know aabout the ones they hit though
So, we’ll just clone more and double what was taken and then what. I’ll tell ya what, we’ll quadruple the size cause we won’t get hit for another two or three years. Why cause enforcement is not about stopping us. It’s just about milk’in Sacramento and you foolish citizens for more money. Illicit Growers are big business probably as much as those legal cannabis sales. You citizens should thank us after all we are job creators. Namaste.
No they won’t. What a joke. Bust a place per week on average. Even if they did 2 per week all year it’s just over a hundred. Enforcement will never end this. This is all a PR stunt. Only macroeconomics can stop it. End of story.
//”A warrant served by public employees on private land.//
That’s the explicit purpose of a warrant — the authorization of public employees to explore private areas.
You do mean the explicit purpose of a warrant — the authorization of public employees to [pilfer] private areas.
As someone who has been pilfered — I do not disagree.
I would think the warrant summons should come from a local police entity. Not a state enforcement unit is all.
Warrants can come from any entity that claims jurisdiction over the area in question. City, county, state, feds, any of them could issue a warrant
So we should be more vocal towards the judges who sign the warrant. Until I see raids on vineyards and hop farms I will claim injustice to anything fish, fur, scale and feather police do on any private land.
Well I agree with to you that the focus on cannabis is unethical, I don’t expect it to change anytime soon. And I’m not really sure what kind of pressure a couple hill billies from the triangle can put on state or federal judges? Are those even elected positions?
There’s that jurisdiction thingy again
I would think the feds should be here enforcing this crap. 6 plants is legal. Avoiding taxes is not. Go get em.
It’s federally illegal they didn’t want our taxes. Now it’s still federally illegal but if you go legal then they want you to pay taxes. Unjust laws should be challenged its our rights as a citizen. Illicit Growers fight for constitutional freedoms while the rest of you allow political parties to dictate what freedoms you should be allowed. Your herd spewage means nothing to us freedom fighters.
They tried that. It cost tax payers billions, made weed growing more profitable, and ruined a couple of families and lives. Are those your goals? If not then you should be looking at a different strategy
Hypocrites & Haters projecting your inner psyche. The level of cognitive dissonance & confirmation bias is entertaining. Go hit your meth pipe, pop your psyche med’s & have a good day.
The growers are just going to keep going bigger and bigger with taxes and inflation the legal market has screwed everybody and the foreign growers blew out the black market. Dumping prices to a all time low none of this is right. They should have put a cap of grows on the legal market set taxes at a reasonable rate and gave felonies to people that steal water an polluted the land. It’s only going to get worse people need to speak up enough is enough.
Who the heck even grows like this anymore? All that space between the plants and the lights wasted, the lights need to be way lower. Note the poor circulation support. I’d be very interested to see what the finished product looked like in the bags probably not very stellar to have nearly 250 lb of it sitting around. A good sign that you had a great product is when the buyers are banging on your door before it is ready waiting with cash in hand. ❤
when they say “200 pounds of prossed product” that can mean anything from trim, pop corn bud, or even water leaf that was removed all of that was processed. they will very proudly say buds baged for sale if/when they actually get bud. also you mention space between plants, these are people working on a budget they are still using older style gavita lights instead of the new and superier LED lights. they were probably hoping to get a runir two before they upgrade to LED and would be able to run through the summer with out investing in a mini split to keep 5he room cooler. they were smart enough to keep the real cash and guns away from the grow but not bright enough to keep their mouths shut and make sure their neighbors aren’t being annoyed by the diesel grow. with the proper attorney this will all become a speed bump in the Road we call life.
Keep goin, I am enjoying. I see a bunch of other shit wrong.
Oh wow- they detained and released them! Those guys must have been so scared!!! I’m sure they will never do anything like this again- really showed them!
Is this related to the Blocksburg, Fortuna and Korbel bust?
Not to my knowledge. One is led by DFW, a state agency. One group was led by DTF from the County.
@Charlie
Your display of shortsighted thinking would be laughable were it not so blatantly idiotic. Criticize the growers ?? How about criticize the political systems that have been in place for decades that have created an artificial value on a plant product that should be as valuable as coffee beans or less. But you do not understand…and that’s precisely what they love about you
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And here I am worrying about how I’m going to pay for my 7800 sq ft permit, not fuck up the water and land, and contribute to my community. Am I a sucker or what.
The legal (license/permit) system was not designed to work for legacy farms in the triangle. Sorry
Can they even cover overhead in this market?
Great question…
Its 2022 and people are still using those old gavita 1000w DE lamps from 2012.
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
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