Posted on 07/27/2013 5:55:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The charges include human trafficking, false imprisonment and molesting a child
Police connected a third suspect to two men accused of forcing a 15-year-old runaway from Los Angeles to work in a Northern California pot farm and using her as a sex slave, officials said on Saturday.
Eric Edgar, 45, was arrested in LA in May on a sex assault charge after the girl identified him as one of her assailants, said Cmdr. Andy Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Edgar is connected to a case involving two suspected pot growers who allegedly sexually abused a girl who was trimming marijuana buds for them, police said. They allegedly locked her in a metal toolbox near the Northern California city of Clearlake, in Lake County, more than 100 miles north of San Francisco, authorities said.
Edgar was briefly held in an LA County Jail before being released to Lake County authorities. His status was not known on Saturday.
Lake County Sheriff's officials were not available for comment.
Ryan Balletto, 30, and Patrick Pearmain, 25, were arrested two months ago. They face charges of cultivating pot for sale and sexual assault, among others, according to a press release issued by the Lake County Sheriff’s Department.
The case broke after deputies visited Balletto's home asking about the missing girl on April 29, according to court documents unsealed on Monday.
The next day, the girl called authorities to say she was OK and in Sacramento.
Patrick Pearmain, 24, and Ryan Balletto, 30, both allegedly had sex with a girl who was cutting marijuana buds for them at Balletto's Lake County property.LAPD investigators traced the call and police located her at a West Sacramento hotel, where authorities arrested Pearmain, court documents said.
At the pot farm, authorities seized over 1,300 marijuana plants and what police said was the largest weapons cache in recent Lake County Sheriff’s history.
Authorities also uncovered sex toys and the 4-foot by 2-foot metal box authorities said the girl was imprisoned in.
Ah, loosen up. Of course this event is worse. But why you so uptight about pot if freeing up pot is Righteous? Surely God will agree with you then and there’s no need to care about what they think of you?
Does that help?
I think anyone who hurts children like this deserve the death penalty, immediately. I feel that about anyone who wants to have sex with a kid too.
I don’t have any better feeling toward drug pushers.
BTW, I know you as a poster and hold you in no such regard, for what it's worth.
Neither do I, I hold them in the same regard as drug war zealots.
Wow, even Obama could not say something that stupid, Reagan, Christians, conservatives, all no better than the worst monsters on earth.
The worst are the ones who push to legalize drugs, knowing full well this will put society’s stamp of approval on it as far as kids are concerned.
They already bring their kids to the pot festivals in Colorado and the like.
Or maybe not.
I’m off this, got no time for the it.
I’m not a druggie looking for pithy, it was an observation of what you obviously posted.
Run away! Run away!
Yeah, you just keep on buying illegal drugs to quietly enjoy in the privacy of your own home.
It’s not like you personally are in any way related to drug cartels, right?
Do you buy your weed from only honest, reputable dealers? LOL!
Man’s Life, Stag, Argosy, True.
I miss those type of magazines although as an adult, I would be more picky than I was a s a kid.
Here is a link to some covers and names of them.
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/05/26/vintage-mens-adventure-magazines/
“Pot Farm Sex Slave” — am I hearing the title for a future XXX rated movie?
I am. How much for a bag of pithy?
“Do you buy your weed from only honest, reputable dealers?”
That will be difficult to do, so long as it remains illegal.
Sounds like a grind house flick
Most super stoners I know are apathetic about sex
Yes, alcohol is so much safer than pot.
Oh let me guess your justification for the supply chain crimes - “I would make it myself, but if I got caught, I would go to jail”.
How come everybody else gets a sex slave except me?
It’s the catnip, man. The sex slaves don’t like it.
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