By Paul Daquilante • Staff Writer • 

'Massive' marijuana grow operations located in rural Dayton

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JWC

Interesting that the YCSO responded so vigorously. When I attempted to report a similar but indoor grow that a tenant had installed on my property back in 2016, an anonymous deputy who appeared to have been overdosing on donuts did not even allow me to say one sentence before he literally rolled his eyes and walked away. When our efforts to evict the vermin provoked a confrontation in which the tenant shot at my son, Judge Ladd Wiles refused to understand that marijuana remains illegal under Federal law. Perhaps Judge Wiles had smoked a few bowls of the free samples that their corrupt attorney had given him? Wiles also refused to understand that ex post facto grow site permits are NOT evidence that the land owner consented to the grow. Even more outrageous, in a classic example of the convoluted legalistic gymnastics that attorneys are notorious for, Judge Wiles pronounced that there was no evidence that the tenant had been on the rental property when he fired the gun. This is in spite of the tenant testifying multiple times that he had been standing on the porch when he fired the shotgun.

bonnybedlam

Legalizing marijuana definitely had one impact on the illegal market. I can remember 15-20 years ago, a pound of really good bud was worth $3,000-$5,000 at street level, depending on availability that week. Now that everyone can theoretically grow for their own use, or buy it cheaply and safely in stores, it's really cut the value for these guys. Good to see law enforcement agencies coming together to further eff up cartel business.

JWC

bonnybedlam:

Agreed that the value for the legitimate market in Oregon is much lower. However; if the bootleggers recruit Grandpa and Grandma bootlegger to take a road trip in their big ass pick up pulling their big ass travel trailer to Idaho, Montana, Utah or Arizona where marijuana remains illegal, they can sell it for about $10,000 per pound.

Prior to implementation of HB-3200 (which was passed unanimously during the 2019 session) which allegedly requires that the land owner consent before address specific grow site permits can be issued, such illicit grows were dispersed. Since the OMMP decided that the plant limits should be uncreased from the 6 plants approved by the voters to 6 mature plants plus 12 immature plants over 24 inches tall plus 24 immature plants under 24 inches tall, a single OMMP Medical Marijuana card holder could gross about $60,000 per month. If they got busted, it was their landlord that would get shafted by malicious prosecution to enable civil forfeiture. Now that neither the OLCC and OMMP can enable the Oregon Marijuana Mafia expropriating the private property of innocent victims for the purposes of committing Federal felonies, the bootleggers have to put their own property in jeapordy. As a result, bootleg grows have been aggregated to reduce the risk to reward ratio.

BigfootLives

I thought that legalizing pot and making the state of Oregon one of the largest drug dealers in America was going to make all of the problems with the illegal drug trade go up in smoke, no pun intended. Interesting that these massive grow operations, that you have to admit, are pretty hard to miss, are operated by Mexican cartels. I would assume that all of the Hispanic gentleman with unknown addresses are in the country illegally but I could be 100% wrong. Would be interested to see if they will be given a pass and put right back on the street. Given the state of the southern boarder it won't be long before the cartels get tired of losing money and put some real security around their grow ops. Just one of the benefits of being a sanctuary state.

madmacs

JWC- Maybe you should have gone through the legal eviction process and let the sheriff handle it once the process ran its course. Confronting the tenant was probably a bad idea and likely kept them on your property longer than they would have been had you handled it through the legal system in the first place.

JWC

madmacs:

You are making erroneous presumptions. We did not initiate an armed confrontation to forcibly evict outside of the legal process. Oregon residential tenancy law precludes evicting a tenant for converting a property into even a very large scale marijuana grow as long as the tenant removes the plants within 24 hours. A landlord is then compelled to document the damages inflicted on the property to install and operate the grow. This included extensive modifications to the electrical system without permits or inspections much less land owner consent. We were in the process of documenting the damages to the 3600 square foot horse barn that was converted into a grow and trying to negotiate through attorneys when the shooting incident occurred. Rather than respond by exterminating the vermin, we made the mistake of calling the police. Judge Ladd Wiles later ruled that our efforts to evict constituted harasment and obviously seemed to think that the shooting was justified. Like some on this forum, Wiles also refused to understand that a 12 gauge shotgun is an extremely deadly weapon.

BigfootLives

With what you’re describing and the other rental laws Oregon pushes, why would anyone want to go through the risk of renting property? The whole industry is being forced out of the private, family landlords and into corporations that goble up properties from frustrated or bankrupt landlords. Then you will see the laws swing back to the landlord side of the table with lobbyists and ‘contributions’.

JWC

BigFootLives:

Exactly!
In the mean time the State of Oregon gets to collect nearly two hundred million dollars a year worth of bribe money, excuse me, "taxes," from the Oregon Marijuana Mafia.

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