Thread: Illegals take aim at officer during pot farm eradication

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Marijuana eradication in Tonto National Forest turns violent
Illegal alien takes aim at officer aiming to eradicate pot farm
By Linda Bentley
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST – According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), four of Arizona’s six national forests, Coconino, Kaibab, Prescott and Tonto have been involved in marijuana plant eradication since 2004.
The majority of those eradications occurred on two sites in Coconino National Forest, for a total of 19,982 plants and 13 sites in Tonto National Forest for a total of 132,047 plants.
From 2004 through Oct. 23, 2006, a total of 18 sites and 155,591 plants have been eradicated in the program.
Last Wednesday a hiker in Tonto National Forest in the Mt. Peeley/Deer Creek/201 Road area found and reported the site as an abandoned pot farm.
On Sunday, forest service law enforcement officers were performing a marijuana eradication operation at the site when they encountered four armed suspects. One of the suspects pointed a loaded rifle at one of the law enforcement officers, who responded by firing at the suspect three times.
On Tuesday, the USDA, Southwest Region, reported the suspect, a 20-year old Hispanic male illegal alien, was in stable condition in a local hospital and cooperating with authorities.
The other three armed suspects fled, launching an air and land search operation involving the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Public Safety, Maricopa and Gila County Sheriff’s Offices, which included at least three helicopters.
Gila County Sheriff’s Office detained one possible suspect, also identified as an illegal alien, until forest service authorities picked him up for questioning.
The eradication operation, where the shooting incident occurred, involved 3,100 plants, covering approximately four acres. However, more plants have since been discovered and the operation continues.


Marijuana eradication in Tonto National Forest turns violent
Illegal alien takes aim at officer aiming to eradicate pot farm
By Linda Bentley
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST – According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), four of Arizona’s six national forests, Coconino, Kaibab, Prescott and Tonto have been involved in marijuana plant eradication since 2004.
The majority of those eradications occurred on two sites in Coconino National Forest, for a total of 19,982 plants and 13 sites in Tonto National Forest for a total of 132,047 plants.
From 2004 through Oct. 23, 2006, a total of 18 sites and 155,591 plants have been eradicated in the program.
Last Wednesday a hiker in Tonto National Forest in the Mt. Peeley/Deer Creek/201 Road area found and reported the site as an abandoned pot farm.
On Sunday, forest service law enforcement officers were performing a marijuana eradication operation at the site when they encountered four armed suspects. One of the suspects pointed a loaded rifle at one of the law enforcement officers, who responded by firing at the suspect three times.
On Tuesday, the USDA, Southwest Region, reported the suspect, a 20-year old Hispanic male illegal alien, was in stable condition in a local hospital and cooperating with authorities.
The other three armed suspects fled, launching an air and land search operation involving the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Public Safety, Maricopa and Gila County Sheriff’s Offices, which included at least three helicopters.
Gila County Sheriff’s Office detained one possible suspect, also identified as an illegal alien, until forest service authorities picked him up for questioning.
The eradication operation, where the shooting incident occurred, involved 3,100 plants, covering approximately four acres. However, more plants have since been discovered and the operation continues.

Numerous such farms are being found all over CA also. It is believed the drug cartel is responsible for this deforestation within our own country.

How could the Feds not wake up to something like this?

Illegals, working for foreign drug cartels, using our own Federal land to grow weed?

If that does not prove the intense level of illegal organized crime into our society, what does?

They are squatters! They will grow it on any property that is not watched and supervised. They probably don't even know it's federal land. They got to it via a back road, not the main enterance.

Dixie

If our officers shoot them are they then gonna be tried for attempted murder with the drug offenders getting immunity to testify against them?

For those of you who don't know, good pot is going for $400.00 an once, that's more than the price of gold.
For years people have been trying to change cheap metals into gold, now all they have to do is grow their own.
It's easy to see how an uneducated person with no respect for the law would be tempted to make some easy money, however I fail to see that the risks are worth it let alone shooting at someone and risk going to jail for murder.
My freedom is worth more than money.