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Lawsuit: Calif. sheriffs left 75 pizza boxes at pot farm after allegedly illegal raid * 2
    #28594001 - 12/22/23 11:44 AM (1 month, 5 days ago)

Lawsuit: Calif. sheriffs left 75 pizza boxes at pot farm after allegedly illegal raid
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A Southern California pot farmer is suing Riverside County for what he characterizes as an illegal law enforcement raid on his property.

The farmer, Preston McCormick, is alleging that deputies with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office ransacked his business and left 75 pizza boxes behind following the operation last year. In his suit filed Friday against several individuals and public entities — including the County of Riverside and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department — in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Preston is claiming $10 million in losses and damages.

In his complaint, as Law360 first reported, McCormick claims that more than 100 deputies and support staff conducted a predawn raid on his farm, East Wind AG, located just north of the Salton Sea on tribal land owned by the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. The suit says the deputies intentionally ripped down hundreds of greenhouses and other infrastructure due to an “unbridled lust for chaos.”

The suit says the raid, carried out Dec. 7 of last year, resulted in the destruction of 18,299 plants that were on “the cusp of harvest.” In addition to valuing the crops at approximately $10 million, McCormick alleges that deputies confiscated personal items from his home on the property, including $10,000 in cash.

After the raid, McCormick alleges the deputies ordered pizza, along with other food and drinks, for delivery to his property to celebrate. Then the next day, the lawsuit alleges deputies returned to the property to retrieve cell phones, radios and other items that had been left behind. The lawsuit also says 75 pizza boxes were “haphazardly discarded” on the property.

But McCormick’s chief complaint is that he says the raid was conducted illegally. He says he worked with the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians a few months before the raid to secure license and lease agreements, as well as permits, to grow and sell cannabis on tribal land. His lawsuit alleges that tribal officials showed up during the raid, but were told by deputies that they needed to leave and would be arrested if they interfered.

McCormick’s suit says he was bound in handcuffs for six hours or more throughout the raid and was not offered food or water for eight to 10 hours. He says the cuffs damaged his wrists to the point that they “began to swell and bleed” and that he needed surgery to repair the damage. He also says his home burned down roughly a month later in a fire that he couldn’t put out because police had ordered his water and power to be shut off ahead of their raid.

A spokesperson for Riverside County and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately reply to requests for comment from SFGATE.


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Re: Lawsuit: Calif. sheriffs left 75 pizza boxes at pot farm after allegedly illegal raid [Re: Ythan]
    #28594234 - 12/22/23 03:54 PM (1 month, 5 days ago)

" he worked with the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians"

Yeah stopped reading there.  No works with the Torres Hernadez Rodgriquizz desert people.


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Re: Lawsuit: Calif. sheriffs left 75 pizza boxes at pot farm after allegedly illegal raid [Re: Ythan]
    #28594455 - 12/22/23 07:49 PM (1 month, 5 days ago)

I sure hope Mr. McCormick wins this lawsuit. I recall a time when cops protected the public from criminals. Now they are just armed thugs who blatantly break laws, abuse citizens, steal and destroy property at will, because they can get away with it. And to top it off with a celebratory pizza party is disgusting.


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Re: Lawsuit: Calif. sheriffs left 75 pizza boxes at pot farm after allegedly illegal raid [Re: veggie]
    #28595908 - 12/23/23 11:41 PM (1 month, 3 days ago)

"more than 100 deputies" so what, 110-120 max? and they killed 75 pizzas in one sitting. 'merica


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Re: Lawsuit: Calif. sheriffs left 75 pizza boxes at pot farm after allegedly illegal raid [Re: Ythan]
    #28595954 - 12/24/23 12:55 AM (1 month, 3 days ago)

Those cops are nothing more than a bunch of completely braindead pathetic psychopathic idiots who deserve to die.


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Re: Lawsuit: Calif. sheriffs left 75 pizza boxes at pot farm after allegedly illegal raid [Re: Ythan]
    #28596909 - 12/24/23 06:28 PM (1 month, 3 days ago)

afaic, your tribe is another ppp in which the people have ceded sovereignty and self sufficiency, and the govt holds controlling interest and inflicts ceremonial chickenshit, often for psychological value.


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