Posted on 08/11/2007 11:55:40 AM PDT by AuntB
(Medford, Or) - Much of the day Friday, a helicopter brought out load after load of marijuana plants from hillsides in the Applegate... more than 10,000 plants, according to Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters.
Winters says marijuana retails for about 5-thousand dollars a pound, street value. He says last year his department confiscated 27.6 tons of marijuana.
The grows are not just valuable. They're also dangerous. Law enforcement officers say the grow is most likely part of a Mexican drug cartel. Winters says members of the cartel will fight in a gun battle to protect their crop... and to try to stay out of federal prison if they're caught.
Also, many hunting seasons begin soon, and hunters will be out in the woods right when the marijuana crop is at its fullest and at its highest value. Siskiyou County Sheriff Rick Riggins says his department has been working to bring awareness to communities that the grows are out there in the woods.
Riggins also says drugs like pot and meth are connected. He says "some people say to me its just marijuana... well it is but it is also very dangerous to the people out in the woods and it also funds illegal activity... and these guys are also doing meth."
In addition to the four men already in custody... investigators believe one man is still at large... and he is considered armed and dangerous.
Everyday we hear of one of these stories in the Pac. NW and many other states. Last week Dallas, near Chicago, etc. etc. All Mexican Drug Cartel, many MS-13 and awol Mexican Military. Some of the peasant 'growers' brought in illegally are 'held' until the crop is in.
photos of these grows and the destruction to our national heritage here:
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2006/09/mexican-border-has-moved-800-miles.html
$5,000 a pound?? Ha!
“It’s a plant, KILL IT!!”
Just another very good reason to decriminalize marijuana...
Interesting, no suspect names...
How odd.
Legalize it.
Well, if any of the names were “Smith” or “Jones” I guess they’d be in there.
More on the same subject TODAY (So much for the sovereignty of a Native American Reservation):
Raid yields 40,000 pot plants on reservation [snip]
By The Associated Press
YAKIMA — In one of the biggest marijuana raids ever reported in Washington state, drug investigators said they seized about 40,000 pot plants in a closed area of the Yakama Indian Reservation.
Wiley did not give an estimated value for the haul but said high-quality marijuana is worth about $2,000 a pound and a good plant has about a pound of pot, which could make the confiscated marijuana worth as much as $80 million.
The discovery boosted the total amount of marijuana seized in about a week and a half of the helicopter operations to nearly 80,000 plants in Yakima, Klickitat, Benton and Skamania counties.
In the wake of the year’s largest previous haul, 11,000 plants, also on the Yakama reservation, Wiley said it was “Mexican drug-trafficking organizations growing out there and not members of the tribe.” Tribal leaders “are working very hard to get this activity off their lands,” he said.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003831497_potraid11m.html
Marijua?
Use of this illegal drug can lead to bad spelling
More Today:
Massive marijuana garden discovered in Humboldt County
DINSMORE, Calif. (AP) —
In the biggest pot bust in Humboldt County history, authorities seized more than 134,000 marijuana plants worth an estimated $469 million, law enforcement officials said.
The plants, ranging from one to three feet tall, were discovered on federal and private timberland along the county’s eastern edge north of Dinsmore, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department.
The plants, which were spotted during surveillance flights, were eradicated over the past week by county, state and federal officers.
No arrests were made during the raid, but investigators believe a Mexican drug cartel was behind the massive growing operation.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/10/state/n160119D36.DTL&type=politics
Threads like this are always good for bring out the FR closet dopers.
Just like the other day, when the Mayor of Newark declined to say of the suspect in the execution style murders of three students was an illegal. It turns out he was of course.
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More Today! (Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave)
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_222151030.html
Marijuana Plants Found In Angeles National Forest
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(CBS) ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. Investigators involved in a “marijuana abatement” operation found up to 10,000 pot plants growing in the Angeles National Forest and were removing them Friday, officials said.
The operation was being conducted by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the California Department of Forestry, said sheriff’s Lt. Joe Nunez.
“It’s a routine marijuana abatement operation,” Nunez said.
There were no arrests, and the investigation was ongoing, Nunez said.
The grow was in the Vogel Flats area north of Tujunga.
It was unclear who was growing the plants in the remote area, but large operations such as this one could be operated by illegal immigrants on behalf of Mexican drug cartels, Nunez said.
(And believe me, it’s clear enough when it’s Mexican Nationals growing)
I can't stand it when my closets have been doping. They get all jumbled and disorganized, and are constantly raiding the pantry.
If it is a politician caught, and they don’t say his party, you have to assume the (D).
If it is a run-of-the-mill criminal who is caught, and they don’t mention his name, you have to assume he is illegal.
There are no illegals. There’s just folks coming here to work. That’s why there’s no need for border security. Everybody’s just folks looking to better their lives.
No doubt, and we know the Mexican gangs and Mexican drug cartels are now assisting terrorist.
I tend to agree with others. We could put a stop to a lot of the Mexican drug cartel crap asap if they would legalize small amounts for personal use, or legalize growing one or two plants. The only reason it's going for
$5,000 a pound, is because the government made it illegal. 5k for a pound of weed? LOL!
BINGO!
Don’t try to make sense of reported numbers, Lurker. Whatever it is, it’s too dang much when our land is invaded by Mexican Drug Cartels. What do you imagine would happen to a US citizen caught with these kinds of grows on FEDERAL land? I promise it would be a lot worse than these foreign criminals get handed.
All this insanity over a weed. I can’t wait to see our Global Warming StarTroopers at work.
LOL
Well, you know, things like drunk driving and having sex with underage girls are “cultural differences” which we should learn to understand, doncha know? These folks here, well, they’re just honest workmen tending the crops.
That's under $400 an oz, right? That's not unheard of in the northeast.
...who must have been really, really hungry.
Criminalize cigarettes :-)
Oh I never do when it's the WO(s)D. Personally I think the crap ought to be legalized just to put these scumbags out of business.
I would love to see the last names of the 'suspects' however. I'll bet you a dollar not one of them is a McGullicutty.
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Well, afterall, this drug $ is helping out the Mexican government, and that seems to be our governments biggest priority.
Here’s another one today. The location of this one (Siloam Springs) caught my eye. This town is mentioned in a book I’ve been writting. In 1867, the US government confiscated a tobacco factory there that belonged to some Cherokee Indians named Corneilius Boudinot and Stand Watie. According to the treaty signed the year before, Indian tribes pay no federal tax on certain products grown on their lands, including tobacco. Congress passed a new law negating the portion of the treaty...YES, this set precident that Congress CAN change TREATIES. So they shut it down for non payment of the tax. Rather ironic in several ways , I thought.
BENTONVILLE — Benton County Sheriff’s Office deputies searched Thursday on the ground and from the air for marijuana plants.
The effort is part of a statewide drug-eradication program provided by grant money from the U. S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Arkansas State Police.
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office’s drug task force and drug interdiction unit, along with Metco Helicopters Inc., participated in the search, according to Doug Gay, public information deputy for the BCSO.
Three plots of marijuana were located in an area east of Yell Cemetery and Littrell roads, east of Siloam Springs, Gay said.
A pilot, along with BCSO investigator Charlie Robinson, spotted the plots, which contained about 16 marijuana plants, and some were as tall as 12 feet, Gay said. The air crew directed ground units to the plots, where additional investigators uprooted and transported the plants to the Sheriff’s Office for disposal, Gay said.
According to DEA estimates, the value of the plants is $ 16, 000, or $ 1, 000 per mature plant.
Law-enforcement agencies conduct the drug-eradication program once a year and utilize aircraft to spot contraband, hidden in remote locations, from the air.
http://nwanews.com/bcdr/News/52165/
My 14 year old granddaughter informed me yesterday that the notion of 'borders' was just silly and old fashioned. Now, the truly amazing thing about that is that my head didn't explode!
Hey, Cobra64, grab some photos of these drug grows so people know what they look like.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2006/09/mexican-border-has-moved-800-miles.html
“It’s a plant, KILL IT!!”
I'm burnin' mine.
Come on man, think of all the money you’d drain from law enforcement, lawyers and the lightened up case loads in the courts and less crowded jails. There might even be some layoffs—the horror!
Enjoy your parks Oregon Ping!
She probably learned that in math class, too. Government schools are doing their best to program next generations for NWO Socialism. Since changing government schools is next to impossible, we have to rely on informed people like you to undo the damage. Good luck, AuntB, we need you.
That deadly “Marijua”. It should be banned.
Oh, they're no longer in the closet. They are wide out in the open and demanding their dope.
That's an entire other topic. My question is:
WHERE'S THE FENCE???
someone needs a legal vailium and shot of legal 150 proof booze.
these dopers are the biggest sinners I have ever heard of. The goverment banned marijua and they know best.
Same as those tobacco addicts, claiming they have a right to smoke their leaves.
I get so tired of their constant whining. The government makes the laws. These lowlifes should obey the government.
Off to jail for the nonconformists.
I demand a debate between democrats - did they ever inhale Marijua, and should it be legalized? C’mon, it’d be fun.
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“What do you imagine would happen to a US citizen caught with these kinds of grows on FEDERAL land? I promise it would be a lot worse than these foreign criminals get handed.”
20 years for us..........next to nothing for illegals.
GADZOOKS!
You have to use those old Big Bamboo rolling papers sometime.
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