"The Mendocino National Forest is under attack by drug traffickers"

https://www.buildtheborderfence.com/


Those could be the words of just about any rural county Sheriff in California. It wouldn't be the first time we heard it.

The proliferation of such growing operations is destroying ecosystems and scaring hikers away, an official says.

Melinda Haag, U.S. attorney for Northern California, also stated, "Visitors to the forest are increasingly intimidated by the prospect of armed drug traffickers and illegal cultivation sites. ....I've warned people who come up here during the summer to be careful when they go hiking."

More than 460,000 pot plants were destroyed and 101 people arrested in the raids in and around the Mendocino National Forest.
The latest effort, dubbed Operation Full Court Press, targeted 56 growing sites. Authorities seized 27 guns and 11 vehicles, Haag said.

The operation also confiscated fertilizers, chemical pesticides and rat poison. With the aid of the U.S. Forest Service, 23 tons of trash and 22 miles of irrigation pipe were removed; 13 man-made dams remain to be dismantled.

These aren't your 'garden variety' hippie growing a few plants for their personal satisfaction. They are operated by Mexican drug cartels aided by the illegal alien invasion. And they are armed, more than likely, by our own scandalous Department of Justice's Fast and Furious Mexican cartel gun running.

• 3,500 marijuana plants found in Santa Monica
  

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Southern Utah, mostly its public lands, is plagued with Mexican nationals setting up outdoor marijuana growing operations.

A federal magistrate set an Oct. 11 trial date for 21 defendants who police say were involved in a large marijuana growing operation near St. George.

All but one of the suspects arraigned Monday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City are Mexican nationals, said Paul Kohler, an assistant U.S. attorney.

The 21st defendant is a legal permanent resident and has a detention hearing set for Wednesday. (OUR LEGAL immigration system is just as broken!!...this one was probably allowed in on an 'agricultural visa!)

Sue Thomas, a supervisory special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Salt Lake City, said the suspects are hired and paid by Mexican drug trafficking organizations and thus are "part of them." She said all of the large-scale operations federal authorities have seen in southern Utah the past two years have been controlled by Mexican drug trafficking organizations. [snip]

The Cartels control Oregon too!

Douglas County woods carry large marijuana grows
Area residents urged to be cautious when out in the wilderness, especially in summer

A wooden board studded with nails is just one example of a trap recovered by Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team members in Douglas County this year. The board is intended to keep trespassers out of marijuana-growing operations in remote areas.

MICHAEL SULLIVAN / The News-Review

And every County!

When recreating in the Northwest outdoors, beware of illegal marijuana growing

Published: Monday, July 25, 2011

Mexican-backed drug trafficking organizations, according to a Bureau of Land Management law officer, have been a public menace for a number of years, primarily by illegally growing and defending patches of marijuana.

The problem originated in California but has spread throughout the West.

Already this year, law enforcement has raided an illegal plantation of 91,000 marijuana plants in a rugged part of Wallowa County in northeast Oregon. Six men were arrested in the raid.

Last year, 39,000 marijuana plants were eradicated from public lands in the state and Oregon recorded its first shooting at a grow site on BLM land. The incident resulted in the death of one suspect, a Mexican national, in southern Oregon's Jackson County.

Closer to Portland, the U.S. Forest Service reported that 20,000 marijuana plants were removed two years ago in a joint operation on Mount Adams Ranger District and Yakama Nation lands.

Three years ago, 6,200 plants were removed from the Dufur Ranger District of the Mount Hood National Forest.

But those who wander off trail, such as hunters or mushroom pickers, have a greater chance to encounter illegal grow patches.

Marijuana grow operations occur even in desert canyons of southeast Oregon, provided a water source can be diverted to the site.[snip]
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Even local governments are getting in on Mexican Gun Smuggling!
FOLLOW THE MONEY!!

Jul 13 2011
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —

The former mayor of a small New Mexico border town has pleaded guilty to charges he participated in a gun smuggling ring that federal prosecutors said sent hundreds of guns into Mexico, authorities said Wednesday.


Eddie Espinoza faces 65 years in prison. The 51-year-old was arrested in March along with two other Columbus town officials - police chief Angelo Vega and former trustee Blas Gutierrez. The three were among a dozen people charged in the federal sting.
Columbus sits just north of Palomas, Mexico, a town that has seen increasing violence as drug cartels wage war against one another, the Mexican Army and police.[snip]


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Medford, Oregon....quiet, Pacific NW little city, where I grew up and raised my children...Now known as Illegal Alien Mexican gangland!

Police bust up gang fight

MEDFORD, Ore. – Medford Police arrested 10 people after breaking up a gang-related fight with strong ties to a stabbing in Phoenix last month. Police arrested four adults and six juveniles that ranged for 15 to 17 years old. The investigation revealed that the fight was between individuals associated with the Sureño and Norteño gangs, a press release from the Medford Police said.

Lt. Bob Hansen said the gang problem is on the rise in Southern Oregon ....“It’s getting worse in Medford. I’ve been here since the 1980 and I think gangs have finally moved up from, maybe from the South. More than it used to be.”

The ages of gang members are only getting younger, according to Joe Ferguson, the Deputy Director for the Juvenile Detention Hall in Medford.[snip]


More...the same, any day in Mexico Norte!
7-13-11 MAN SENTENCED IN DRUG TRAFFICKING CASE

A man who was arrested last year on I-5 near Ashland for carrying three pounds of methamphetamine will be going to a federal prison for the next 14 years. U.S. District Judge Owen Panner sentenced Santiago Contreras-Esquivel of Modesto, California to prison for drug trafficking and re-entering the country illegally. Police stopped the vehicle Contreras-Esquivel was a passenger in for a traffic violation on July 29, 2010. The drugs were found during a search of the vehicle.

Some of the latest news from NAFBPO.

Gotta love those voting Anchor Babies...You know the ones that the open border crowd are always telling us have 'assimilated'!!!

HERMOSILLO, SONORA

Federal police are reporting that they have captured Armando Villarreal Heredia, who also used the name Jesus Heredia González, alias El Gordo. He was an important operator for the Arrellano Felix cartel, and responsible for coordinating the movement of drugs from Sinaloa to the U. S. He was born in San Diego and began working with the cartel at 16 years old, specializing in moving drugs to San Diego and Los Angeles. The DEA said in 2009 that he one of the main operators for CAF.

SANTIAGO, NUEVO LEÓN

The remains of two tortured men were dumped under a bridge. There were signs of having been burnt while still alive.

Mexican drug wars kill 40 more

http://www.smh.com.au/world/mexican-drug-wars-kill-40-more-20110710-1h8vu.html

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‘Mexican Border Violence’ is becoming Transnational

http://www.mexidata.info/id3073.html

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Robber Tries to Hold Up Brazil Vice President with Toy Gun

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=405611&CategoryId=14090

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Guatemala Arrests 5 Suspected Members of Mexico’s Zetas Cartel

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=406160&CategoryId=23558

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ATF Tampa Division Walked Guns to Honduras and to MS13 Gang Members

http://tinyurl.com/6a2k67u

Despite Violence, U.S. Firms Expand in Mexico

http://tinyurl.com/66opgo4

Janet Napolitano’s former chief-of-staff one of many at center of Fast and Furious scandal

http://tinyurl.com/5wpqh9v

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Family of Murdered Border Patrol Agent Considering Suing Feds Over ‘Fast and Furious’

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/11/family-murdered-patrol-agent-seek-justice/#ixzz1RpSLY39c

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Iran, Hezbollah in Latin America examined by House committee

http://tinyurl.com/64kogcv

As U.S. Gets More Like Mexico, More Mexicans Stay in Mexico

http://www.cis.org/north/as-U.S.-gets-more-like-mexico

Illegal Alien arrested for Sexually Assaulting 14 year old Girl in Logan Heights (San Diego)

http://tinyurl.com/6d45do8

Divisive HR1505 -

Claude Guyant of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers testified in congress that agents need to be able to focus on safety, not environmental regulations.

Supporters of the bill (HR1505), however, said the current setup — a memorandum of understanding between DHS and federal land-management agencies — makes it impossible for Border Patrol to do its job.

“There’s a problem here in that Border Patrol is being restricted,” said Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, the bill’s sponsor. “They are not the problem.”