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El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang
    #5963802 - 08/14/06 07:17 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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[Updated: 3:10 p.m. Monday] At least 40 heavily armed law enforcement officers raided two marijuana gardens blooming within a few miles of some of El Dorado County's most expensive homes.

Investigators linked the marijuana patches to one of Southern California's toughest criminal gangs.

No one was arrested but when the dust had settled, about 2,000 plants, many more than 6-feet tall, were seized.

There also was evidence that a like amount had already been harvested, said Lt. Kevin House, spokesman for the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.


Monday's eradication effort was another local shot in the annual statewide war against what some say is California's biggest cash crop. The street value of the gardens raided Monday was probably in the $5 million to $8 million range considering what was confiscated and what had been harvested.
The camouflaged gardens on public lands were spread across steep, brush covered hillsides off Salmon Falls Road, within sight of million-dollar homes and Folsom Lake, about three miles from El Dorado Hills.

"We don't usually find many grows this close to civilization," said Gordon Taylor, assistant special agent in charge for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Eastern Division of California.

Markings carved into a tree and evidence found on the hillside indicate that the marijuana growing operation was orchestrated by the Surenos, a southern California-based gang that is in turn linked to the Mexican Mafia, Taylor said.

"This is organized crime and that is what we are finding with a lot of these operations that use Mexican nationals," Taylor said. "This is big business."

Even though California voters legalized marijuana use for medical purposes, law enforcement officials still view the weed as a damaging and pervasive problem.

"Recreational" use in the Sacramento region pretty much mirrors what is being seen nationwide where marijuana "is rated as the No. 1 abused drug," Taylor said.

But there is nothing recreational about what the drug does to some young users, Taylor said.

"More teenagers are entering drug treatment programs for marijuana abuse than for all other drugs combined," Taylor said.

"There is a lot of marijuana still out there and it is having a tremendous influence on society," House said. "It is a gigantic problem."

For Sacramento area teenagers, lighting up a joint may be as commonplace as tapping into a keg of beer, he said.

"It is every bit as common as that," House said.

Special Weapons and Tactics teams from three counties spearheaded the early morning sweep near Salmon Falls Road. They were accompanied by California National Guard soldiers, DEA agents and other personnel associated with the state Department of Justice's "Campaign Against Marijuana Planting."

The first units into the area moved warily making sure that no armed guards or booby-traps were in the area. Manzanita, buck brush and poison oak grew so thick along the steep hillsides that individuals could easily have hidden in the bursh.

Along with the pot, they found an abandoned camp, strewn with garbage, some ammunition and an intricately designed drip irrigation system.

As the summer sun rose, the officers and agents began the back-breaking job of hand-pulling the plants before hauling them out to loading zones. The piles were placed in large mesh baskets and hauled away by helicopters. The rugged terrain and lack of access made the work slow and hard.

Black plastic pipe extended throughout the area providing water to plants placed individually and in small clumps. One growing area used water piped out of Sweetwater Creek while the other system tapped water out of Falls Creek.

Although the gardeners had carefully sited their operation in an attempt to keep it hidden, their irrigation system gave them away.

"This investigation started in May when a citizen observed PVC pipe that looked suspicious," Taylor said.

In one garden officers found a lean-to drying room with about 20 plants hanging inside. Plants in that garden were about 3-feet tall. Plants in the other location were more robust many at least 6-feet tall.

"This is a pretty typical Mexican national garden," said Ray LeLoup, special agent with the federal Bureau of Land Management.

LeLoup was looking over the pile of garbage, a propane stove, shovels, fertilizer and other debris that had been left behind along the damaged hillside.

During the "harvest season," LeLoup spends a lot of time busting brush in an area that stretches from near Fresno all the way to Redding.

"I probably do two or three of these a week," LeLoup said.

Early indications point to a busy local marijuana season. Earlier this month a similar outdoor garden was eradicated near the El Dorado County community of Greenwood. During the same time frame a joint task force broke up an indoor growing operation in Elk Grove and seized another 2,000 plants.

The campaign against planting is run by the state Department of Justice in conjunction with federal and local law enforcement.


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: CptnGarden]
    #5964562 - 08/14/06 11:01 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

"More teenagers are entering drug treatment programs for marijuana abuse than for all other drugs combined," Taylor said.

after the get caught and ordered by the court to do so..


Edited by ANTS (08/14/06 11:02 PM)


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: Da_Vine]
    #5964568 - 08/14/06 11:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Hahaha thats definatly true

But honestly, if you need serious treatment over marijuana thats sad, unless you've been smokin'10 joints a day for the past 10 years


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: crakkattak]
    #5964628 - 08/14/06 11:16 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Hah, because Marijuana is such a damaging drug, and its so addicting kids need to enter Rehab, like you said, after they get caught the judge puts em in it because they think it'll help, hah, they just stop and smirk because they know when its over they'll start up again.
Shows how smart the fucking DEA's are.
Pigs.


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: Woahtubulardude]
    #5964734 - 08/14/06 11:43 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

ANTS said:
"More teenagers are entering drug treatment programs for marijuana abuse than for all other drugs combined," Taylor said.

after the get caught and ordered by the court to do so..




yeah and this is all somehow related to that case where they are forceing a kid to take radiation treatment after he say FUCK NO to destroying and mutating all the cells in his body and immune system.

SO this is pretty fucked up how not only can we the people NOT take drugs we feel we need or want to use because we think there safe enough considering....But the GOV. has the right to FORCE us to take POISEN drugs that are designed make us sicker....WTF WTF WTF

you know bush is close to being a senior citizen...once he's of age im going to demand that he be declared clinicly insane and unable to make good desions for his health and well beings and then force him(with doctors backing me of course thx to his laws) to give him radation theropy to destroy all his dead brain cells so he's only left with ones taht still work halfway right....well thats the plan anyways.


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #5964798 - 08/14/06 11:57 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

why dont you just bend him over and bust a hitler with some pineapples...


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: CptnGarden]
    #5964913 - 08/15/06 12:28 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

lol pineapples, i would but im not quite sick enough to do that yet.

but do you agree with them laws then? forceing others to do such things? or did i just percieve that wrong?


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #5965076 - 08/15/06 01:30 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Fuck Bush


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: crakkattak]
    #5965093 - 08/15/06 01:48 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

i was just saying, instead of going through all that trouble of getting the courts to side with you in giving him his own pills, you could do to him what he does to american except in place of a pineapple.
and im sure the entire US minus small fractions of pompous rich dicks, would back you on that one. fuck the courts.


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: CptnGarden]
    #5965178 - 08/15/06 03:39 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

thats 5 miles from my mom's house lol
edc has lotta the same though...


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Re: El Dorado's raided marijuana fields linked to criminal gang [Re: Da_Vine]
    #5965204 - 08/15/06 04:18 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

> More teenagers are entering drug treatment programs

They forgot to add "by court order, after being arrested." They take an imposed punishment and turn it around as if to show there is a growing problem. Not that teenagers should be smoking, but still...

> Markings carved into a tree and evidence found on the hillside indicate that the marijuana growing operation was orchestrated by the Surenos

Proof I say... we got scratches on a tree... gotta be gang related.


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Recent marijuana raid puts weed problem in perspective [Re: Seuss]
    #5981823 - 08/20/06 04:23 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

http://www.thepresstribune.com/articles/2006/08/19/news/top_stories/03pot.txt
As the fall harvest season for marijuana approaches, officials in both Placer and El Dorado counties are busy identifying and eradicating the massive grows.

State and local law enforcement officials seized nearly 2,000 marijuana plants, believed to be the product of Southern California street gangs, in El Dorado Hills Monday with a potential street value of more than $3 million.

Grows of that size are not uncommon, said Sgt. Ron Ashford of the Placer County Sheriff's Department's Special Enforcement Team.

"The last few years we're seeing the organized grows in the 2,000 to 3,000 range," Ashford said Tuesday. "It's a somewhat smaller grow, but still very profitable if they get away with it."

Law enforcement officials in El Dorado County located two large marijuana gardens close to multi- million dollar homes and recreational areas, including Folsom Lake. Although the size of the pot farm isn't unusual, the location is.

"We haven't found gardens of this size so close to Sacramento or residential houses," said Gordon Taylor, assistant special agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Eastern Division of California.

It's more common to find such operations in remote areas of Northern California, he said.

In June, acting on an anonymous tip, Placer County sheriff's investigators and the Special Enforcement Team conducted a raid on a marijuana garden in the Gas Canyon area between Auburn and Foresthill and removed 17,000 plants ranging in size from 6 inches to 2 feet tall.

One subject was seen in the area carrying a rifle, but the person fled the area on foot.

A citizen who noticed suspicious black PVC pipes first alerted local law enforcement to the illegal operation in El Dorado Hills. Following a month of surveillance, special weapons and tactics teams from El Dorado, Sacramento and Amador counties conducted the pre-dawn raid Monday.

Law enforcement officials also found several campsites near the gardens, as well as etchings in a tree near a possible drop-off point that suggested ties to the Mexican Mafia, specifically the Surenos gang, officials said.

Trekking up steep hills covered in buck brush, poison oak and other foliage, Bureau of Land Management Special Agent Ray LeLoup pointed out the main campsite and cooking area, fashioned from nearby brush and a blue tarp.

Smaller camps cluttered with camping supplies and food items were also found.

"They can live out here three, four months at a time," LeLoup said of the growers. "This would tell me they've been out here quite a while."

Some of the campsites were fresh, suggesting to law enforcement officials the growers had vacated the premises as little as two hours before law enforcement arrived. Spent shotgun shells and a notebook with a list of supplies written in Spanish were also found.

Ashford said most of the marijuana gardens in Placer County are also run by Mexican nationals.

"There's a hierarchy and a lot of the workers left in the wilderness are usually people that don't know a heck of a lot of what's going on up the chain," he said. "They basically leave the Mexican workers for several months with food and grow supplies."

The DEA, Federal Bureau of Land Management, California National Guard and sheriff's offices from the three counties participated in Monday's seizure, as part of the state Department of Justice's "Campaign Against Marijuana Planting."

Ashford and the Placer County Sheriff's Department work from April to October to identify and remove large marijuana grows in the area.

"We work all informants and do a lot of flying in the mountain country of Placer (County) trying to identify the grows," Ashford said.

The majority of large grows in the Auburn area are planted in remote areas.

Ashford urges hikers and those that use the mountain areas for recreation to use caution when venturing off marked trails while hiking.

"Marijuana growers are often armed and pose a real threat if a citizen should unwittingly come across a marijuana garden," he said.


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Re: Recent marijuana raid puts weed problem in perspective [Re: Da_Vine]
    #5981929 - 08/20/06 05:05 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

until the government gets it's head out of its fucking ass, i'd be more than happy to see my money go elsewhere. fuck prohibition.


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