800 POUND ISLAND MOUNTAIN MARIJUANA BUST-MENDOCINO……..THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE MCSO PRESS RELEASE.
“On 7/16/2008 The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, Mendocino County Major Crimes Task Force,County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team and the State Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, assisted by the Humboldt County Task Force, Napa Special Investigation, DEA, Immigration Customs Enforcement Officers, Lake County Narcotics Task Force, Sonoma County Task Force,CAMP, Redding and Sacramento BNE Marijuana Investigation Teams and the West Contra Costa Narcotics team served four search warrants on five locations in the Island Mountain area of Mendocino County. The area is in the far north east part of Mendocino County and is very remote.
As a part of a long investigation it was learned that suspects were growing large quantites of marijuana in a series of greenhouses that was being sold commercially out of the area. The case revealed that the property owners were probably responsible for the operations.
During the investigation the greenhouses that were photographed were similar at all the locations. It was suspected that all the locations were associated.
The listed agents served the warrants along with a warrant for the residence of Scott Graves in Trinidad, Humboldt County. Seized at the Island Mountain Locations were 6772 marijuana plants, 6 rifles and 8 handguns and approximatly 800 pounds of processed bud marijuana. The listed suspects were arrested at three of the locations and several more suspects fled into the woods on the agents arrival. Four suspects were arrested on immigration holds and violations.
The agents serving the warrant in Trinidad Ca. located and seized $53,000.00 cash. There was $55,000.00 seized on the Island Mountain property.
This type of an operation is going to be targeted in Mendocino County. The large commercial growing operations in the remote areas of the county will be sought out, investigated and eradicated.
Both Sheriff Tom Allman and District Attorney Meredith Lintott were at the scene in Island Mountain. Lintott said she is committed to working with the Sheriff to prosecute these criminals.
Sheriff Allman said that he is going to provide the support and equipment to investigate large commercial operations and work with the agencies that request Sheriff’s Office assistance.
ARRESTED INCLUDE:
Suspect #1: |
Scott Graves |
48 |
Trinidad Ca. |
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Suspect #2: |
David Linhart |
50 |
Hawaii |
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Suspect #3: |
Jonathan Linhart |
46 |
Island Mountain Mendocino County |
Ca. |
Suspect #4: |
Travis Ferry |
27 |
Island Mountain Mendocino County |
Ca. |
Suspect #5: |
Christopher Bickell |
21 |
Colorado |
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Suspect #6: |
Jose Orozso |
19 |
Oregon |
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Suspect #7: |
Jose Barrera |
19 |
Oregon |
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Suspect #8: |
Orozco Guillermo |
38 |
Oregon |
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Suspect #9: |
Herman Orozco |
22 |
Mexico |
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Suspect #10: |
Pedro Orozco Munoz |
28 |
Mexico |
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Suspect #11: |
Jesus Carillo |
27 |
Mexico |
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Suspect #12: |
Pedro Antonio Orozco |
54 |
Mexico |
1 response so far ↓
Mike John Morgan // March 5, 2009 at 8:21 am
Reading this story leaves me with a lot of unanswered questions. Questions on the “affiliation” & background on these people. On first glance it compels me to think 800 POUNDS! these were out-of-town people helped by locals. Thinking deeper were these people care providers for a large amount of people? 2# per person would be only 400 people. They also were growing on multiple locations, how much per location? 100#’s per 8 locations would be 50 people per location @ 2 pounds per person. Here in Arcata, the Humboldt co-operative THC dispensary has 6-7000+ patients they provide medical marijuana. I recently spoke with the owner, he stated he paid $600,000 in taxes.
I hate the mentality that you can grow marijuana, just don’t do it with other people or for a lot of patients in need of medical marijuana. You can be compensated, just don’t put all your time in energy into it, and be good at it. “It” as in helping patients in need, Tax revenue and be helped yourself.