Posted on 08/12/2010 9:23:10 AM PDT by AuntB
Jackson County sheriff's deputies on Wednesday shot and killed an armed man guarding a marijuana garden deep in the woods north of Sams Valley.
The sheriff's SWAT team was searching for the garden on BLM property at around 7 a.m. when they encountered a man armed with a loaded shotgun, law enforcement authorities said.
Two deputies fired at the man, who is described as a Hispanic adult...
A SWAT medic performed emergency aid on the man but he died at the scene, OSP said.
After the shooting, deputies spotted a second man fleeing the area. He disappeared in the woods. It is not known if he was armed, OSP said.
The SWAT team believes the marijuana garden belongs to a Mexican drug cartel, OSP said.
Cartels are large-scale criminal organizations based in Mexico that deal in weapons and drugs.
The forests in Northern California and Southern Oregon are popular with the cartels for their marijuana operations.
U.S. Department of Justice's National Drug Intelligence Center reported that the number of plants removed from public lands soared more than 300 percent from 2004 to 2008, primarily at pot gardens of Mexican drug-trafficking organizations. The cartels favor public land because its remoteness can limit detection....
Southern Oregon sheriff's departments gave U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., a helicopter tour of the area's vasts forests. The trip, documented in Sunday's Mail Tribune, showed hundreds of illegal marijuana gardens sprinkled throughout Southern Oregon.
The sheriff's agencies are asking the federal government for additional funds to eradicate illegal marijuana farms.
Sheriff's deputies in Lake County, Calif., shot and killed a man last week who was guarding a marijuana garden...
The sheriff's department found a weapon cache and a 10,000-plant garden near where the man was shot. He later was identified as 51-year-old Juan Sanchez Corona.
(Excerpt) Read more at mailtribune.com ...
Ping!
Exactly, and we know where they live. Take them out with tomahawks, predators, whatever it takes. I'd add send in special forces troops, but frankly I do not want to waste any of our finest on that scum until they have crossed our border.
There will be collateral damage, but since they have put the innocent at risk it's on them; no remorse.
Of course, with the current administration, this is just a pipe dream.
Agreed, and execute the recipients!
>I am just as upset at those who use drugs as I am with the murdering savages who supply them.<
That’s wrong! Where is your sympathy for those who are victims of the terror of drug addiction?
Did I say that with the proper amount of chaste in my voice?
I’m like you are. In this day and age if you are addicted to any chemical, you cannot say that you didn’t know of the dangers of addiction long before your first use. More likely than not you grew up watching a family member suffer from the very same addiction so you are not going to find sympathy from me.
OT, but not really. We had a very popular local BBQ place have to relocate because the feds seized the property.
The owner of the restaurant wasn’t invloved, but he was hurt more than anyone.
There was a Mexican drug cartel using other areas of the property...so the entire property was seized.
There were 35 - 40 people...all “out of towners”...arrested. And, by golly, no local press covered it! Except for Bob Miller...;o)
“The owner of the restaurant wasn’t invloved, but he was hurt more than anyone.
There was a Mexican drug cartel using other areas of the property...so the entire property was seized.”
UGH!!! Where has justice gone?
“Where has justice gone?”
Apparently, right out of the window!
Have you ever heard of Reo’s Ribs?
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