Posted on 04/15/2008 9:37:23 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer on Monday granted a motion for appointment of a new attorney for an illegal immigrant who was apprehended allegedly guarding a large marijuana field off Warrensburg Road last year.
Bedo Pineda-Infanti, 58, a Mexican national, had been scheduled to be sentenced on Monday, but he filed a hand-written request last month for appointment of a new defense attorney to replace Assistant Federal Defender Tim S. Moore.
"When I took my (guilty) plea, I honestly didn't understand what I was told," the handwritten motion said in part.
Pineda-Infanti had pleaded guilty last Dec. 5 to conspiracy to manufacture 1,000, or more, marijuana plants; possessing a Glenfield Model 60 .22-caliber rifle and a Chinese-made Norinco MAC90 7.62-by-39-mm rifle in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime; and being an illegal alien in possession of firearms.
A federal criminal complaint filed against Pineda-Infanti by FBI Special Agent Kevin Keithley on Sept. 18, 2007, alleged that from Sept. 1 until "on or about Sept. 13," Pineda-Infanti "and other persons, known and unknown, conspired to manufacture 1,000, or more marijuana plants.
The complaint says that on Sept. 13, agents of the Third Judicial District Drug Task Force, who were investigating a report of a large marijuana growing operation, located Pineda-Infanti and the marijuana patch in Greene County.
The plea agreement in the case said that on Sept. 13 "a citizen of Greene County reported to law-enforcement (that) he had come upon a marijuana field."
Three Others Got Away
On that day according to the plea agreement, Third Judicial District Drug Task Force agents came upon the marijuana field.
"Four individuals were in the field when DTF agents arrived," the plea agreement states.
"Three individuals fled, (with) one of them dropping the Norinco MAC90 rifle. Agents found defendant Bedo Pineda-Infanti a short distance from the main marijuana patch, cultivating a marijuana plant."
None of the other three people in the field when agents raided it have been located or charged, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Caryn Hebets.
8,000 Marijuana Plants
The main marijuana field, according to the plea agreement, was "approximately 50 yards wide and 600 to 700 yards long" and contained an estimated 8,000 marijuana plants.
Pineda-Infanti, according to the plea agreement, admitted that he was in the United States illegally and told federal investigators that he had been recruited to guard the marijuana field and was to be paid $100 per day.
The main marijuana field, according to the plea agreement, was "approximately 50 yards wide and 600 to 700 yards long" and contained an estimated 8,000 marijuana plants. __________________________________________
Greeneville is about 70 miles East of Knoxville, TN
PING
Doing the work that Americans won’t do. You just can’t find anyone in this country to guard marijuana fields for a measley hundred dollars a day. What is a criminal operation to do? I’m talking about the marijuana growers, not the judge. or am I?
What a rookie, Doesn’t sound like Mexico’s finest to me.
PING
Thought this might interest you
I’m curious as to how this illegal was ‘cultivating’ a plant with a Glenfield Model 60 .22? ... Just doing the $100/day crimes Americans won’t stoop to do I guess.
:)
I don’t think we need to be so fearful of a ‘doobie’. It’s not marijuana that is causing this country so much drug-related trouble. It is crystal meth, - the cause of the majority of crime in the US. And the majority of it comes from Mexico. (I have read that 96% of the meth in this country comes from south of the OPEN border.)
http://www.kpho.com/news/15880192/detail.html
Crystal meth is a terrible addiction. I lost some friends many years ago to it. I didn’t see one girl since high school & she got addicted to it. OMG She looked so pretty in high school & when I saw her before she finally died she looked like a hag. No teeth, no looks left and old beyond repair. I have a poem about it somewhere I will send you ...Pandy
you have a FReepmail ...Hugs Pandy
Yup. I know. Did you read that poem I sent you? Very sad but all too true.
OMG - that poem should be read to every kid over age three! I hope you will be able to post it.....
Maybe one “doobie” can’t kill you, but several/many can. I’ve lost friends who died from smoking pot for years. It’s horrible on the lungs. Just ask Michael Savage...Anyway, it’s a gateway drug which is reason enough to keep it illegal.
I am sorry you have lost friends to this drug. My brothers both have been addicted to it for years. It does diminish ambition and lust for life, I am told.
Name just one! I am calling BS on that statement, because there are absolutely no stats to back it up. I smoked lots of it in my youth (and beyond), and know it's effects. You cannot die from marijuana. Sorry... you must be confused, or just another anti-whatever (you don't like).
The #1 gateway! <
It contains more tar than tobacco. While it’s not chainsmoked in the same manner as cigarettes, it still does a number on the lungs.
So depending on how often one smokes marijuana, one can end up just as bad, even worse, than a person who smokes tobacco. Since cigarettes carry a risk of death over the years, so too does marijuana. The difference is, marijuana being less addictive than tobacco, people are far more likely to stop smoking marijuana before it kills them.
Yep!
...and your other "assumptions" are based on what? A does not equal B... just because someone posits it!
Crystal meth is so easy to manufacture, however, that when we successfully restrict the supply, domestic manufacturers will take over more of the production.
I honestly don't know why we import most of our crystal meth; I could whip up a batch of it in my bathtub after a quick trip to the store. I'd be a complete idiot to do so, given the significant risk of an explosion if I made a mistake, but I could do it.
My personal guess is that the meth is being manufactured by Mexican drug cartels, and distributed through hispanic gangs. If this is correct, then once we seal the border, the gangs will shift manufacture to local sites, and, once we break them up, manufacture will shift to an ad-hoc organization of addicts.
Meth is such a problem because it's so easy to make and so addictive; it's why it's infamous in the small towns, where the import of drugs is more difficult, similar to Marijuana.
Closing the border will certainly help, but it won't end the threat that Meth presents. Personally, I think we'll only succeed in that when we jail the adult addicts; they're the ones who are most likely to hit the intersection of knowledge and motive necessary to manufacture crystal meth domestically.
If you’re really interested, I could track down the sources myself.
But is it really necessary? Even pro-marijuana groups admit that it harms the lungs, albeit on a lesser scale than tobacco.
Any form of smoke damages the lungs. It’s not an issue of what you’re burning to do so; inhaling wood smoke in the same quantity and manner as tobacco or marijuana would cause similar long-term health issues.
Horrible——read somewhere that the first rush is such a high, they become hopeless addicts chasing after it....but are never able to duplicate it. The horror is that they become entagled in chasing after the memory of the first rush.
Pantload! Blackbird.
Got left by his buddies. I guess with a new attorney he’ll be less guilty.
BS, is all over you, the weed is known to cause severe heart problems.
Even Tennessee, eh? Wow. These Mexican drug cartel grows are all over the country and I have no doubt they are part of the reason for all the forest fires.
Photos of these grows and camps here:
The Mexican border has moved 800 miles north-
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=invasion+800+miles
Yorkie, the Mexican Drug cartels grow in our parks and forests in the warm months and brew meth in the cold months. They’ve got it covered.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=invasion+800+miles
Everything is a “gateway drug.”
Some FReepers on here know what S.S.S. means.
Still, if you smoke cigarettes and smoke MJ, you definitely are at high risk for lung (etc.) cancer.
There is a high correlation between smoking weed and smoking terbacky.
After 15 minutes of reading through briefs on studies readily available on the internet, I'd have to catalog your response as simply ignorant. BS is a cut above ignorant ya' know.
Thanks for refreshing my (failing) memory, Aunt B!
I had a clip at one time of a map of AZ, where the cartel hangs out (in our country!), guarding the stash being moved along our highways. I wish I could find it.
You guys are funny. Posit facts, not your weak opinions. Opinions are like a..holes. Everybody's got one!
From an uniformed idiot, I take that as a complement.
consider it a compliment (please note the proper spelling), and learn something. You certainly don't seem to show much more than your opinions... and your crass disregard for facts.
...argument to ignorance (argumentum ad ignorantiam)
The argument to ignorance is a logical fallacy of irrelevance occurring when one claims that something is true only because it hasn't been proved false, or that something is false only because it has not been proved true. A claim's truth or falsity depends upon supporting or refuting evidence to the claim, not the lack of support for a contrary or contradictory claim. (Contrary claims can't both be true but both can be false, unlike contradictory claims. "Jones was in Chicago at the time of the robbery" and "Jones was in Miami at the time of the robbery" are contrary claims--assuming there is no equivocation with 'Jones' or 'robbery'. "Jones was in Chicago at the time of the robbery" and "Jones was not in Chicago at the time of the robbery" are contradictory. A claim is proved true if its contradictory is proved false, and vice-versa.)
The fact that it cannot be proved that the universe is not designed by an Intelligent Creator does not prove that it is. Nor does the fact that it cannot be proved that the universe is designed by an Intelligent Creator prove that it isn't.
The argument to ignorance seems to be more seductive when it can play upon wishful thinking. People who want to believe in immortality, for example, may be more prone to think that the lack of proof to the contrary of their desired belief is somehow relevant to supporting it.
Using this fallacy is a tactic sometimes used to discredit people who can't disprove your claim. For example, when CBS News anchor Dan Rather was challenged about the authenticity of documents that indicated that George W. Bush had not fulfilled his National Guard duty as an honorable man, Rather was accused of using forged documents to discredit the president. Rather couldn't prove the documents weren't forgeries, but that doesn't prove that they were. To argue this way is to make an argument to ignorance. Even now one can find numerous places on the Internet where writers refer to the "forged documents." The documents were never proved to be forgeries. To Bush's defenders, this fact is irrelevant. (http://www.skepdic.com/ignorance.html)
I am glade you label your self, no get back on the meds.
Weed's eaten your brain hasn't it?
I encouraged someone to do a little easy research on the internet ~ dig into some scientific papers, and all you can do is belch.
Weed's eaten your brain hasn't it?
You still have no facts, just keep your stream of ridicule. Great tactic, I am sure, if you are 12! You cannot present any definites, so you posit opinions. Typical kneejerks!
Acts 10:At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. 2He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. 3One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
4Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked.
The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. 5Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. 6He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
7When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants. 8He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa.
Peter’s Vision
9About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. 13Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14”Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
16This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
17While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon’s house was and stopped at the gate. 18They called out, asking if Simon who was known as Peter was staying there.
19While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Simon, three[a] men are looking for you. 20So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.”
21Peter went down and said to the men, “I’m the one you’re looking for. Why have you come?”
22The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to have you come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.” 23Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests.
Peter at Cornelius’ House
The next day Peter started out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went along. 24The following day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. 25As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. 26But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”
27Talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. 28He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with a Gentile or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean. 29So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?”
30Cornelius answered: “Four days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me 31and said, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor. 32Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.’ 33So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.”
34Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right. 36You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. 37You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached— 38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
39”We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, 40but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. 41He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. 43All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
44While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. 45The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles. 46For they heard them speaking in tongues[b] and praising God.
Then Peter said, 47”Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” 48So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.
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