Thread: CA: DOJ - Pot bust linked to statewide ring

DOJ: Pot bust linked to statewide ring
Friday, Sep 3 2010, 11:25 am

By Julie R. Johnson/Tri-County Newspapers

Arrests, drugs, firearms and U.S. currency has connected Corning to a large-scale marijuana cultivation and distribution organization that spans the state from Los Angeles to Tehama County.

The local connection was first revealed on Aug. 27 in Colusa County when the California Highway Patrol made a traffic stop on Jesus Pablo Lara, 47, who had left a residence at 2168 Donnovan Ave., in Corning, about an hour earlier.

During a search of the van, law enforcement reported locating 209 pounds of processed marijuana, said California Highway Patrol Officer Heath Helman, supervisor of the North State Marijuana Investigation Team.

Lara was arrested and booked into the Colusa County Jail, on suspicion of drug possession, drug transportation, and illegal entry. He is being held without bail.

On Wednesday, at 11:30 a.m., agents from federal, state, and county drug task forces served a search warrant at the Donnovan Avenue residence where they reported finding 700 pounds of processed marijuana and $22,468 in cash in a bedroom, according to a North State Marijuana Investigation Team statement.

Mexican national Leovigildo Villa-Albor, 27, of Corning, was arrested and was booked into the Tehama County Jail on suspicion of keeping a place to sell narcotics or a controlled substance, possession of marijuana for sale, and planting/cultivating marijuana. Bail was set at $60,000.

During that same time, agents served search warrants at 24773 Gardiner Ferry Road and 532 San Benito Avenue in Gerber.

At the Gardiner Ferry Road site, approximately 2,000 pounds of fertilizer and several thousand feet of black irrigation tubing consistent with large scale outdoor marijuana was reportedly found, and at the Gerber residence, 1,254 pounds of processed marijuana and a loaded 9mm handgun was reportedly found said Helman.

Jimenez Juan Herrera, 35, of Michoacan, Mexico, was arrested, reportedly hiding in the Gerber home near the handgun, officials sad. He was booked into the Tehama County Jail on suspicion of possession of marijuana for sale, planting/cultivating marijuana/hashish and giving/transporting more than 28.5 grams of marijuana, with bail set at $75,000, Helman reported.

As the Tehama County raids and arrests were being conducted, agents also executed two search warrants in Orland.

“Both of those residences were empty and no arrested were made or drugs located,â€

When is this madness going to stop.

We do not need these drug dealers from Mexico here tearing up public lands for their criminal @sses

Where are all the property rights advocates these days?

I've noticed a trend this year in the MANY Mexican pot farm raids. It's NOT just 'public' lands any more. They've moved on to private properties. They DESTROY the habitat and trees.

Many of these are some of the few lumber companies left in this nation, who now have THEIR property, their crop of trees destroyed, as in the article below. They might complain, file suit against some entity, but no one has listened to lumber people for decades!

They're part of that nasty rural anti enviro freak cabal, after all.


The greatest irony of this entire mess has to be how these local sheriffs MUST enforce Federal drug laws.... but are not allowed to enforce ENDANGERED SPECIES laws, not PROPERTY RIGHTS laws, and certainly not IMMIGRATION LAWS!

Deputies: We pulled up Mexican cartel's pot


SWEET HOME, Ore. – Deputies raided a marijuana-growing operation they say is linked to a Mexican drug cartel on private timberland in Linn County Thursday.

During the raid they seized nearly 1,000 plants and a pound of marijuana. Detectives had been investigating the growing operation for some time. They say two workers lived in a tent at the site. It appeared they had been living there for a couple months, Mueller said. [I'm told by local sheriff's that these 'migrants' kill every form of wildlife they can find...some they eat, most they just waste....but these guys will get off easier than a native Oregonian killing a deer out of season!]

Detectives had been investigating the growing operation for some time. They say two workers lived in a tent at the site. It appeared they had been living there for a couple months, Mueller said.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/101236874.html

WAKE UP America. There is a WH policy INVASION

Here's another one today.

Mexican cartel pot site busted near Galice
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September 03, 2010 5:44 PM
Katie Conner / KTVL.com

GALICE, Ore. – Police uprooted another marijuana grow site in Galice.

According to Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilberston, authorities found a huge amount of marijuana in the area of Galice. Gilbertson says the grow is linked to the Mexican Drug Cartel. So far, police have put 18 people in jail.

Gilbertson says the grow is massive but he cannot release the total amount of plants because the case is still under investigation.

Galice Resident Cole Smith says he is frustrated with police. Authorities have been parked in front of his house for a week and won’t explain why they are there.

“I’ve asked but I get no response, the person wouldn’t talk to me,â€