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 veggie
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 Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants [WA] 
#8832244 - 08/26/08 06:20 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants
August 26, 2008 - kxly.com
It's been a record-breaking summer for Washington's marijuana eradication task force which has confiscated more plants this year than ever before. However the drug trade remains a major problem across the state.
Last week, in a remote patch of the Spokane Indian Reservation, the combined task force of DEA Agents along with local and state officers busted two marijuana grows.
"We believe this is a Mexican drug trafficking organization based grow," Lt. Rich Wiley with the Washington State Patrol said.
Using helicopters in the air and SWAT Teams and K-9 teams on the ground the teams move in on the grows after extensive surveillance of the sites. The marijuana grows are placed in hard to reach locations, leaving the SWAT Teams to be inserted into the site from the air.
"They're using any type of state where they think they can operate in anonymity," Lt. Wiley said.
Reservations have become very popular for marijuana growing with the Yakama Reservation long a target for illegal grows. Now those operations are moving east.
"This is probably the first significant grow on the Spokane Indian Reservation but it's following a trend we've noticed across the state," Lt. Wiley said.
Spokane Tribal Police and Stevens County authorities say while its possible more marijuana is being grown now, they're also being more proactive.
"The drug trafficking organizations interested in it and the high dollar values the product represents, it's a big problem," Stevens County Sheriff Craig Thayer said.
At the bottom of a ravine on the reservation the SWAT team secures three pot grows. They're irrigated on terraced land. Near the grows a small camp filled with fertilizer is found. One by one, the plants are pulled from the ground, each one worth over $2,500.
"That's where all the drama is, where the public sees us pulling the plants," Lt. Wiley said. "Really the good work happens year-round when we're working on drug-trafficking organizations."
The criminal elements that operate these illegal grows often lead to other illegal activities which is why this coordinated effort between federal, state and local law enforcement is so important.
"It's not specific to a reservation," Spokane Tribal Police Chief Rory Gilliland said. "This is the type of location they look for."
The team works quickly, hauling out plants and trash and within a few hours of arriving at the site everything has been hauled out and it's time for them to move on.
"Although we didn't get any suspects ... at this grow, there's some evidence there that will be used in an ongoing investigation," Lt. Wiley said.
In all authorities nabbed 7,612 plants from the marijuana grow on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Combined with another bust on the same day as this raid the task force confiscated over 24,000 marijuana plants worth around $60 Million.
These raids were the single largest ever conducted in Stevens County and the Spokane Indian Reservation's history.
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 numonkei
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants [WA] [Re: veggie]
#8832446 - 08/26/08 07:01 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Plant everything in one place, in that kind of weight, what the hell can one suspect is going to happen? The chopper pilot will be drunk?
Makes me upset that these folk get rich off the black market. It just takes some common sense.
~Monk
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themange
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants [WA] [Re: numonkei]
#8832725 - 08/26/08 07:55 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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damn dope heads and their dope..
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stewy1412
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants [WA] [Re: themange]
#8834595 - 08/27/08 06:34 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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cant they just leave the indians along i mean come on
we take their land, there girls, their booze, and now there vegatables
stupid pigs need to get a life and catch some killers and rapists
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants [WA] [Re: stewy1412]
#8834937 - 08/27/08 07:57 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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cuz only mexican drug lords know how to grow marijuana
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants [WA] [Re: clover606]
#8835179 - 08/27/08 09:10 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Perhaps what the Reservation Police SHOULD have done is slap cuffs on every one of those DEA agents and anyone else involved in that raid, for tresspassing on sacred land and operating out of their jurisdiction. As one of Native American heritage, I find that entire operation of the State disgusting. It's bad enough we have had to accept tiny parcels of land from these pigs as some kind of means for reparation, but it's even worse that we aren't even allowed to choose what actions to take on OUR own land. The Reservation Police should be ashamed of themselves for backing down from the feds. As for the supposed "Mexicans" that were accused of growing the herb, I'd have to agree with Clover. It's not like they are the only ones capable of this. Plus, I believe the real proble in the State of Washington is the dangerous Meth and Coke being poured in from the Mexicans, not Marijuana cultivation. Even most Washington State Police will agree with that.
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants [WA] [Re: ragefanjr]
#8835771 - 08/27/08 11:38 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
As one of Native American heritage, I find that entire operation of the State disgusting. It's bad enough we have had to accept tiny parcels of land from these pigs as some kind of means for reparation, but it's even worse that we aren't even allowed to choose what actions to take on OUR own land. The Reservation Police should be ashamed of themselves for backing down from the feds.
Yeah, but if it's BIA (or basically anyone within the existing power structure), then what are you expecting? They are the traitors who, in exchange for money & "power", administer U.S. colonialism on Native reservations; they serve themselves first & foremost. This is not to say that there are not those who are well-intentioned, but the system as a whole is rigged against meaningful progressive change. Of course, it is largely a mute point when very few people want such change because, tragically, too many Natives today are alcoholics (or, for other reasons are) too disconnected from our cultures & histories, & thus too apathetic to be motivated to change the sorry status quo for Native people, to stop living on welfare & to restore the traditional self-determination that existed before the European arrival.
Here's a little inspiration:
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/index.htm#SlideFrame_1
Check out the app. 15 min. video of Russell Means speaking.
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Even the rocks... as they swelter in the sun along the silent seashore in solemn grandeur thrill with memories of past events... and the very dust under your feet responds more lovingly to our footsteps than to yours, because it is the ashes of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch, for the soil is rich with the life of our kindred.
And when the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among white men shall have become a myth, these shores shall swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe.
- Chief Seattle
Edited by EntheogenicPeace (08/27/08 12:15 PM)
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants [WA] [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#8836954 - 08/27/08 03:30 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's all a big show. The people who even give a shit are rich fags/assholes and soccer moms.
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