Robbery Report at Shively Marijuana Farm Leads to Felony Stop, Driver Arrested for DUI
The Toyota Tundra was towed from the scene of the stop. [Photo by Kym Kemp]
According to CHP officer Travis Sarvinski, around 12:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers performed a felony stop on a vehicle that matched that description just south of Redcrest on the Avenue of the Giants. (A felony stop usually involves multiple officers drawing their weapons, ordering occupants to exit the vehicle one by one, and ensuring the scene is secure.)
The driver, a resident of Hydesville, was determined to be intoxicated and subsequently arrested, Sarvinski told us.
However, no firearms or evidence of theft were located during the stop, and the attempted robbery may be unfounded. However, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has not yet responded to requests for further information.
The passengers were released at the scene.
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Genius’ Alert!
No doubt ripening cannabis reefer is to be found in north California this time of year.
I toured a farm once and was impressed by the large cola buds as large as a Folgers coffee can
😂
Cola buds of profoundly-robust structure have been described as resembling the male genitalia of Equus Asinus.
That’s a wild ass classic nomenclature what are you like 90 years old lmao
Another legal grow hijinx
I can’t quite pinpoint what bothers me about this, but even though they caught someone breaking a law, this does not reflect well on hcso. Can’t even say why, it just doesn’t surprise me it went down like this.
Was this supposed to be a “swatting”?
Pretty easy to toss some firearms out the window, and also pretty easy to lie and make up a BS story. I guess only 4 or 5 people know the real truth.
The tow truck is so clean, it could double as a mirror!
Does anyone know if there is any truth to the story of the murder and cannibalism of 2 ripoffs somewhere on Mina Rd between Covelo and Hayfork? This apparently happened about a year ago.
Covelo and Hayfork are a long way apart! Hyampom and Covelo are a long way apart. Maybe you were thinking of Kettenpom, but no, I don’t think anybody but you have heard about that.
Kettenpom and covelo are a long way apart I would think covelo definitely not kettenpom, Zetia or Ruth lake.and I doubt hayfork
Maybe they had a food booth at the Cannabilfest at Halvorsen Park? Long pork plate then go buy some dispensary shwag…
They ate the witness because they had the munchies.have to say that’s a really weird question to ask on a platform like this.who would really want to discuss if they did with anyone reading.must be fun believing tall tails.go to trees of mystery you can see Paul bunyon&his blue ox with huge blu ba//$
There’s a few running around is why. I went to school with a guy that in 5th grade found a body under the scotia riodell bridge. A week later he was showing a girl in town where he found it and found another one. That was early 80s. A guy turned in his dad in blue lake that used to keep wemon in a redwood stump. After his dad died . Not everyone is like you or me. I met a guy that has apd anti social behavioral disorder. Or a sociopath. They can be nice. They love to pretend .
Someone left a body in the trunk of a car out that way, parked in the summer sun. It struck me as not a first time deal.
I did hear a person say he thought there was one in covelo one time . There’s a ex sheriff., that worked with the dea, that I kinda know. I was telling him that we have a person in fortuna that really needs to be looked at. Another person there said there was one in covelo to but offered no evidence.
I also should not say that there isn’t a active serial killer in hayfork. There three murders in between hayfork and Lewiston that could be related. Stacy smart , O’Keefe, and a Asian guy in hayfork . They found wheel barrow tracks at O’Keefe and the Asian guys place. O’Keefe disappeared shortly after smart and from the same area and I belive they knew each other. I wouldn’t trust anyone driving around those areas at night with a wheel barrow in their truck.
Does the farm get fined for a false report? I think it’s a crime to falsely report crimes…
as far as I am aware, HCSO doesn’t hold people accountable for making false reports of crimes. I’ve had 35 false reports made against me by one person, and everyone is unfounded. I reported this to them after the 25th false report, but HCSO never holds the perpetrator accountable, they essentially serve as a gang to harass me for the perpetrator.
Did you have any recourse from the law to bring charges on a person repeatedly making false reports against you? It seems that in of itself is a crime. Cops are limited on what they can do without evidence that a crime is being committed. They have to respond to the call, and if say, the neighbors are up in arms with their torches and pitchforks with allegations based on the reality of repeated wrongdoing by the perp, no evidence- cops leave, suggest a restraining order be placed. This person really had it out for you. People can really suck. It’s not the cops fault people like that really suck and they have to waste their time and resources repeatedly. They get to deal with the ” flowers” of humanity.
Go get em
This seems fishy like a sun baked trout , or is it complete bs or Truth missing to much detail like wow welcome to Humboldt , chronic every where ….. hahaha that’s just the way it is..
Check out the old high times magazines for Humboldt county California , cannabis history way before legalizing ! People protecting or losing their cannabis is nothing new.. sucks except it’s totally reality in this place..
Haha Haha! High Times?
Or you could simply ask someone who was actually here, if they would talk to you
Getting busted has always been just a cost of doing business.
One night in the mid-2000s, we were ripped off. We had 48 plants, each 3-4 pounds. The next morning, we discovered the theft and quickly gathered some people to search the area. I knew there was no way they could have hiked all of it out, and sure enough, we found the stash hidden in the woods. We gathered it all up, drove it back to the drying sheds, and hung it to dry.
The next day, the whole neighborhood was raided. Cops were dropping in from helicopters and netting everyone’s crops. Luckily, they didn’t find the drying sheds. In a strange twist of fate, I have to thank the thieves for being greedy and taking more than they could possibly hike out. If they hadn’t, the cops would have gotten that too.
That is another interesting story from the Emerald Files. Some day I swear I need to write a book.
Please do, Kym. Write the damn book!! Everyone told my s.o. (his doctor, dentist, therapist, lawyer, life-long friends, acquaintances,etc.) that he should write a book. He killed himself before he got to it. He was an OG with so much to share… so much he should have shared.
I don’t think there is any way I can convey my love for that world.
I’m always amazed how people can romanticize the positive aspects of love for the land, the plant, the camaraderie, the community, of the grower mystique while ignoring or downplaying the dark side of human trafficking, rape, murder, rip offs, etc. – because one would not have existed without the other.
There was a lot of bright light shining in the cannabis community–KMUD, the Community Credit Union, Trees, Redwoods Rural, rural community schools, Feet First Dancers, the Mateel, the road associations and fire departments, etc.
Hmm…I think you’re proving my point as you only list positive aspects as if the dark side didn’t exist.
If you go around highlighting the bad don’t be surprised if folks point out the good.
If you live in a place that the bright lights are very bright and the dark is mostly hidden, most folks don’t go around pointing out how dark it is, because it isn’t dark for them. That’s not the reality of their lives. The extra money allowed a lot funneling money to good causes. And people’s incomes jumped up to the next level. Poor families could buy tires and replace junkers with better quality used cars. Working class families could take a vacation once in awhile and afford to send their children to the wonderful private schools that flourished in the hills.
But, of course, the secrecy allowed serious crime. The latter is why marijuana needed to be legalized. In spite of Farce and others fuss about Permit Pansies–that’s why most of the growers I know who voted for legalization did so. They didn’t think it was going to make their lives better but they thought it would make the world better.
But those good organizations that have helped a lot of people are mostly struggling now and the small businesses are closing and the poor families can’t afford to get new tires.
So yeah, the marijuana culture was not entirely good but losing it sucks for those of us who loved it.
And just like when someone is mourning the death of their beloved sister, one doesn’t go on about how she was a whore, maybe a little empathy for those of us who are grieving her loss might become you.
It’s delusional to think because not everything was bad that means that it was really good. Hello! All the things listed as good could exist without that level of bad.
Hello again! The “extra” money that allowed “funneling to good causes” could happen without the bad. All it would take is the tax burden to be less. The tax burden that paid for things like MediCal, fire fighting, schools, parks, etc that illegal enterprise didn’t pay but somehow seems to believe should be paid by others.
This is the exact song sung by criminals everywhere- “we’re all really no worse that anyone else. And we only do what society forces us to do. And we take care of our own.” What would that sort of ingrown thinking be called? Mafiampathy? Criminal compassion? Oh wait there’s already a word for it- self-aggrandizement. “The rise of social media has provided a new platform for self-aggrandizement, where individuals can curate an idealized persona for public consumption.”
Maybe a funeral is not the place to mention the deceased was a whore but this is not a funeral. This is a public forum where people who loved what did (and still does) a lot of harm don’t get the privilege leveraging their own (can’t think of an inoffensive world for it) attachment to dismiss the harm done to everyone else. It’s gated community thinking. Frankly the illegal Marijuana industry was and is a whore whether anyone is allowed to say so or not. The Hollywood fantasy of the whore with a heart of gold totally ignores the STDs spread throughout body politic.
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Been here long?
Because your comment shows you have no understanding of the economic reality of SoHum or other grow centric areas as it’s played out over the last 30 or 40 years.
The following comment of yours is pure bs:
‘The “extra” money that allowed “funneling to good causes” could happen without the bad. All it would take is the tax burden to be less. The tax burden that paid for things like MediCal, fire fighting, schools, parks, etc that illegal enterprise didn’t pay but somehow seems to believe should be paid by others.’
With the collapse of logging and fishing there was nothing except weed to generate the extra cash that funded volunteer fire depts, private schools, rural health centers, community centers, etc. – the “tax burden” – whether more was paid by growers or less by everybody else – had and has no bearing on funding for rural community institutions – and as usual your comments could be more easily understood if they were translated into a common language so we didn’t have to guess at your meaning.
Example: you say there’d be extra money if the tax burden was less but then say it was the tax burden that paid for MediCal, fire fighting etc., and say illegal enterprise didn’t pay but wants everyone else to pay – but the growers all paid sales and property tax which pay for local schools, police, fire, parks, etc., virtually NONE of which is paid by income tax.
Highlighting the bad v. good is a chicken egg kind of thing but what most often occurs is the positive aspects of the artificial weed economy are played up by those who participated in it and the negative is ignored.
Although many people did well and some made fortunes, on balance it’s not clear if weed was a net positive.
We could go on at length listing the positives and negatives which would prove there were two very different sides to this particular coin.
As you say, legalization needed to happen but the tragedy is that state and local governments botched legalization because of a combination of greed, incompetence, ignorance, lack of meaningful local control and a collapsing market.
As a result most Mom & Pops got screwed out of their dream of legally sanctioned right livelihood.
I definitely agree with your last part.
Umm…you voted to destroy your community. And you rallied others to vote to destroy your community. You were convinced it was the right thing to do- to hand the industry over to well-founded corporations and see your town disappear, your neighbors financially destroyed. And still you claim some high moral ground?! Inexcusable.
That’s a little harsh – I don’t think it’s fair to slam people for believing in a vision of craft growers and medicine makers building and sustaining their community while practicing legally compliant right livelihood.
Not everyone read every word of Prop 64; and no one anticipated Newsom blowing off the 5 acre cap; or how profoundly biased the agencies would be against Mom & Pop, especially in the Triangle, who were shredded by costly compliance requirements and cannabis only rules; or how local control was an illusion; and relatively few anticipated the market would tank and keep tanking to the degree it has.
How it played out is sickening but please stop blaming the victims – no one voted to destroy their community.
I didn’t believe that it was likely that the government leaders would be so shortsighted as to kill the golden goose. BUT I did know that there would not be the kind of money in it that there was before. And I did know there was a chance that corporations would greatly damage the economic future of this area.
I believed as I still do that the world is better off that cannabis is (mostly) legal–poor people are less likely to face life changing criminal charges and violent criminals are less protected by the culture of secrecy.
Would I do it again? Yes. Would I support my son in trying to become…uh…Permit Pansy? No. Economically, legalization has been hard on us. But I am proud of the growers who voted for legalization—not because they were blind to the risks, but because they believed it was the right thing to do for the broader world. And they did it while facing community members who are angry at them for doing it.
(Fuck, Farce, at least a couple times a week you sneer at me or the smaller community who tried to surf the wave that came at them the best they could. I’m sure it makes you feel better but it sure as heck doesn’t feel great to have one more load of trash dumped on my lawn.)
In what part of the world do all those things not exist? In my experience, nobody I knew ignored those darker aspects. I didn’t, and I didn’t know anyone who participated in them.
Just as I said, you’re downplaying the dark side – yes those things happen elsewhere but not at the level that prevailed in the Triangle unless you go to countries run by criminal gangs.
Non-weed, but weed related, serious crime (we’re not talking possession, cultivation, sales, etc.) was an undercurrent in the grow community from the beginning – but it ramped up with each successive wave of green rushers.
The perceived easy money attracted some really bad people and the outlaw culture either dealt out vigilante justice or protected them with silence.
As a result, many people were the victims of unjust, ugly, evil and too often fatal consequences that usually went unreported and unresolved.
The inflated value of underground weed enabled the generosity of good people intent on building community but it also enabled the greed of bad people intent on getting their way without regard to the harm done to others, the community or the environment.
Celebrating one while ignoring the other may foster a feel good myth of “the good old days” but it ignores “the rest of the story” and distorts the overall social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts of underground weed even as those impacts continue to play out.
That’s something that many folks outside of the community can’t grasp–most folks didn’t think they experienced violent crime any more than the average person on the street does.
However, I have to say that when I facilitated a gathering at my house of growers to talk to a LA Times reporter. He listened to us speak for an hour or so and then said something that stuck with every one of us there. He said that he had been a crime reporter on cartels for years and he didn’t know as many murdered people as we did. We started listing folks we knew (often only peripherally of course and yes all of us were very connected to the wider cannabis community so we might know more people than most and yes we have a small town mindset where the brother of sister’s stepcousin’s wife is sort of family) and yet even we could see that there were a lot of folks who were killed violently that we knew.
And the killed violently were only the tip of the iceberg – while it’s true most people (especially original back-to-the-landers) -probably didn’t experience violent crime, the victims and perpetrators of serious and violent crime were usually concealed by a community wide code of silence – in effect, the benign Mom & Pops provided cover for a lot of ugliness – some they were aware of and a lot that they weren’t.
Yes, secrecy led to crime. But let’s not forget that marijuana didn’t need to be criminal. Bad actors inside the government made it that way to serve their own ugly purposes.
And it wouldn’t be (almost) legal today without the growers. Good and bad can become pretty tangled once the first crime is committed.
And ignoring the large step by the government that led to the twists in the cannabis industry is a mistake that some people refuse to acknowledge.
Totally agree… Light can’t exist without darkness and vice versa. Everything is intertwined and interconnected. A tree was killed so that I could heat my home this morning. Our modern existence was built on generations of violence. This early chapter of the marijuana industry was no different than any other human endeavor. Not sure it is possible to create without destroying something else in the process. Tyrannical laws and prohibition were the seeds for the weed industry. The wheel of time keeps churning…
Of course light exists without darkness. Darkness doesn’t generate light. And darkness only is recognized as something existing because we need a term for noticing light’s absence.
Suggesting that “tyrannical laws and prohibition ” created the “weed industry” would be like saying laws against murder created hit men. No one needs weed. They want weed. And there’s always someone willing to provide wants for money. There nothing noble or profound in this.
With your skill, it would be great. I am sure there is plenty of material, and here is another experience of mine.
One time, after a neighbor had been busted, I got a call from his sister telling me he was ratting everyone out. I decided to move what we had processed. As I was heading out heavy, I passed by Boomer’s. Two Sheriff cars pulled out behind me. Heading south, I grew more anxious as two more sheriff cars joined the line near Bailey’s. By the time I passed the Chief, two additional Sheriff cars had fallen in line. I was really nervous by then. As we reached the four-lane road, all the Sheriff cars went around me and continued on their way. No joke.
Man, your stomach must have been clenched!
Kym – save his story for your book. You should write several, short stories book. I imagine you have lots of them.
You were the leader of the pack…
What a great story. I love it.