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 rugergirl79
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 Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants....updated today!
#8839673 - 08/27/08 11:26 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants
Posted: Aug 26, 2008 04:01 PM
Updated: Aug 27, 2008 12:04 AM
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Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants
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John Langeler / KXLY4 Anchor / Reporter
SPOKANE -- 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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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants....updated today! [Re: rugergirl79]
#8839687 - 08/27/08 11:28 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Aren't reservations supposed to be sovereign states? The DEA shouldn't be allowed to raid them...
Am I wrong about that?
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants....updated today! [Re: EchoEclipse71]
#8839698 - 08/27/08 11:30 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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reservations belong in title to the United States government under its "trust" authority.
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants....updated today! [Re: rugergirl79]
#8839703 - 08/27/08 11:31 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
rugergirl79 said:
reservations belong in title to the United States government under its "trust" authority.
Where does that place them legally? Because I always thought that they had the authority to establish and enforce their own laws...
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Re: Reservation raid nets 24,000 pot plants....updated today! [Re: rugergirl79]
#8839748 - 08/27/08 11:41 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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