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Connection unknown between marijuana grow sites and Pike Co. family massacre
WCPO ^ | 4/25/16 | Pat LaFleur

Posted on 04/25/2016 6:41:41 PM PDT by KansasGirl

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio — Investigators are remaining tight-lipped about whether there’s a connection between the massacre of eight Pike County family members Friday and three marijuana "grow operations" found near their homes.

Ohio Attorney General announced over the weekend that investigators found “sophisticated” marijuana grow sites spread across three of the four locations where eight members of the family were found shot to death “execution-style.”...

Were these “executions” motivated or enabled by the drug trade?...

Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader told reporters Sunday that he knew the Rhoden family well -- bust did not know they were involved in any illegal activity.

Local court records did not show any criminal history for the Rhoden family. But DeWine said the sites and number of plants investigators found indicated a professional operation was underway.

“They weren’t doing this in their garden,” he said. “They were doing this to sell.”

This case isn't the first time authorities in Pike County have discovered marijuana grow sites. And it's not the first time deputies in this small county have talked about drug cartels.

In the summer of 2012, DeWine said agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Pike County Sheriff’s Office discovered a large grow site containing more than 1,200 plants near Hickson Road, along with two nearby campsites they believed had been abandoned by Mexican nationals.

Agents discovered the grow and camping sites as part of a two-day drug eradication effort, DeWine said.

Friday’s killings in Pike County — which Reader described as “targeted” at the Rhoden family — came at a time when law enforcement agencies at nearly every level said they are seeing an increase in violent crime surrounding the drug trade, as cartels move farther into the country from the borders...

(Excerpt) Read more at wcpo.com ...


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1 posted on 04/25/2016 6:41:41 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: KansasGirl

Ohio needs to celebrate and embrace Diversity.....


2 posted on 04/25/2016 6:43:30 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: KansasGirl

Another “DUH” moment for DeWine and Kasich.


3 posted on 04/25/2016 6:44:35 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Bible prophesy comes true ... Hillary Benghazi Clinton is the "Whore of Babylon")
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Mixed up with Mexican drug thugs and it went wrong is my guess.


4 posted on 04/25/2016 6:45:38 PM PDT by twister881 (Politics)
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To: KansasGirl

Probably. Four local thugs put a bullet in a kids head last month nearby over a $10,000 pot buy.


5 posted on 04/25/2016 6:47:13 PM PDT by struggle (The)
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To: KansasGirl

As more and more parts of the US legalize this stuff, the level of violence in the business increases.

Not supposed to work that way, huh?


6 posted on 04/25/2016 6:48:26 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Harvey Dent -- can he be trusted?)
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Mixed up with Mexican drug thugs and it went wrong is my guess.

I don't know if "mixed up" is the right expression. I don't think they knew what they were in for. I think it's spiders and flies.

7 posted on 04/25/2016 6:49:24 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: KansasGirl

Don’t know if true or not, but on the day this was reported, people that claimed to live in the area said this family was well-known for meth and weed.


8 posted on 04/25/2016 6:51:10 PM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: KansasGirl

“A few years ago, law enforcement didn’t see (drug violence) as a problem for somewhere other than the border,” Rockingham County (North Carolina) Sheriff Sam Page told Fox News Latino in 2014. “What happens at the border doesn’t stay at the border. It makes its way to my county pretty soon.”

Well doesn’t that say it all!


9 posted on 04/25/2016 6:52:34 PM PDT by mouse1
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As more and more parts of the US legalize this stuff, the level of violence in the business increases.

That's because the government controlled price is set too high. At, say $400 per ounce of medical MJ, there's a lot to be had in the black market. At $20 a lid of ditch-weed, not so much.

In other words, a legalized commodity with an absurdly high price (for taxes) invites a profitable black market. It happened with moonshine, too.

10 posted on 04/25/2016 6:52:47 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
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They cant see black on white hate crimes everyone else does.

They actually do they just get in front of cameras and blafantly lie to us they are unsure.


11 posted on 04/25/2016 6:54:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Well, actually, yes it is. If the repeal of a prohibition is piecemeal, then the criminals naturally fight even harder for their slice of the shrinking pie.


12 posted on 04/25/2016 7:06:31 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: KansasGirl

Hint: One of the Boston Marathon bombers was implicated in a horrific triple murder where he slashed the victims throats then sprinkled a pound or two of pot over the bodies. He was a big time dealer, and so were his victims. Big time.


13 posted on 04/25/2016 7:08:08 PM PDT by DBrow
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Our elected officials are selling us the rope to hang ourselves with. People in this community should be storming the county building with bats, tire irons, and lead pipes. The killers had to have been illegal Mexicans or some other Hispanic group.


14 posted on 04/25/2016 7:09:06 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Rafael Cruz: Canadian-born, Cuban ancestry, ineligible for POTUS)
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To: twister881
a freeper mentioned early on that his contacts in the area thought the 16yro kid had ratted someone out, and perhaps that was key...

also hearing that there was some threat to him on facebook, but can't confirm it....

15 posted on 04/25/2016 7:13:19 PM PDT by cherry
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Mixed up with Mexican drug thugs and it went wrong is my guess.

And the murders were probably done with guns sold to the cartel by Obama/Holder.

16 posted on 04/25/2016 7:15:02 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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I would not be shocked if they know more than they are letting on. Eight dead, at least 4 crime scenes so far, one would think there is some evidence. I am surprised the FBI was not called in, until I saw the victims were white.


17 posted on 04/25/2016 7:15:46 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Marijuana is illegal in Ohio.


18 posted on 04/25/2016 7:43:28 PM PDT by Wolfie
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Where was Gov. Kasich during all this? Isn’t public safety and anti-drug stuff part of his job?


19 posted on 04/25/2016 7:45:52 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; buckalfa

“And the Ohio attorney general’s office said that animals and structures on the property indicate that roosters were being bred there for cockfighting.”

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/04/25/1-piketon-more.html

Speculation gleaned from aerial photos was correct.

Nothing about dogfighting yet, though.


20 posted on 04/25/2016 8:07:42 PM PDT by KansasGirl (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." Thomas Paine)
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