Posted on 09/25/2008 2:17:53 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Traffic stop leads to arrest in pot-growing operation Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:17 PM By Josh Jarman The Columbus Dispatch ZANESVILLE, Ohio -- A traffic stop on a remote Perry County road Sunday was the break investigators were looking for in an ongoing case of suspected Mexican pot growers running large-scale operations across the state.
The arrest of seven Mexican nationals by the Perry County sheriff led to the discovery of one of the largest marijuana crops in Ohio history, and is the latest example of a new kind of drug growing operation in the state where growers live in their illegal plots.
Perry County Sheriff William Barker said the men were arrested after they came to a complete stop in the middle of the road while being followed by a patrolman from the Crooksville Police Department who was investigating an unrelated case.
Officers became alerted when they approached the vehicle and could smell marijuana even through the closed doors. Inside they found six men, who deputies say were clearly drunk and covered in the remnants of marijuana cultivation.
Barker's office alerted Muskingum County Sheriff Robert Stephenson and officials from the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, who organized a fly over of a nearby wilderness area in Muskingum County the next day. There they discovered more than 5,000 fully grown pot plants in a heavily overgrown wooded area about a mile off of the nearest road.
The seven men have been charged with possession of Marijuana and are being held in Muskingum County jail pending arraignment today.
They were identified by authorities as Geiner Rubilio Ascencio, 27, Ramon Saucdeo, 20, Joaquin Villasenor-Gutierrez, 45, Louis Mata Arreoh, 24, Abel Saucedo, 47, and Everardo Alcuter-Sanchez, 33, who all claim to live in Columbus, and 26-year-old Francisco Silva, who claims to be homeless.
The officers are lucky they weren’t shot. The illegals are getting more and more brazen, thanks to their liberal apologists and sympathisers.
Just growing the pot Americans won’t. And why not? The worst that will happen to them is deportation. If an American citizen was caught, he’d face possible confiscation of his home and a lengthy prison sentence.
When are we freaking going to wake up and do something?
It is so repulsive that states in the mid west are getting as bad as the ones that border Mexico.
Typical in OheilO these days.
My town is over run with illegals.
correct, violation of the equal protection clause.
one class of people (illegals) get a free pass on crime, while the rest of us (citizens and legal residents) are punished.
i really would like to see a conservative, constitutional group sue, esp if “shamnesty” (forgiveness of felonies, and a speed pass to citizenship) is enacted
this really tees me off
Huh......never heard of that one before.
Must be in the same building that The Ministry of Silly Walks is in.
FMCDH(BITS)
Major bump to that!
FMCDH(BITS)
For many years, calls of warning have been coming out of the west coast and southwest.. Warning the rest what was coming their way, all brought to you by the federal government.
Few listened, others thought we were joking, or over reacting.
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Yep. When I first joined FR you couldn’t talk about here either. It would get you banned.
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This was in Drudge yesterday.
“The worst that will happen to them is deportation.”
I doubt that. They sure put a lot of illegals in prison where I’m from. I bet they all go to prison.
Nothingnew about huge commercial marijuana business in Ohio. Probably the biggest business in the Southern parts of the state.
Not surprising. Pot is America’s #1 cash crop, more than wheat and corn combined.
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