11 indoor grows raided in Humboldt and Mendocino in Emerald Triangle sweep
More than 100 local, state and federal agents raided 11 indoor marijuana operations across southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties on 6 March 2001 in the two-year Operation Emerald Triangle investigation. Follow-up searches brought the totals to 18 sites, more than 30,000 plants and four arrests.
🇺🇸 Laytonville area, southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties · California, United States
About 120 local, state and federal agents with federal warrants swept across the backwoods
of Mendocino and Humboldt counties at dawn on 6 March 2001, raiding 11 indoor marijuana
growing operations near Laytonville, Garberville and Redway, some of them commercial
buildings made to look like houses.[1]The raids capped a two-year investigation called
Operation Emerald Triangle, with the FBI and the California National Guard joining a
Humboldt County Drug Task Force briefing before 11 search warrants were served.[2]By
midday officers had uprooted more than 14,000 plants and seized206,000 dollars in cash,
arresting three men: Redway brothers Shane and Terry Miller, found with 200,000 dollars,
and Zachary Stone, taken into custody at a separate residence with 6,000 dollars on
suspicion of possession of marijuana for sale.[1]
Follow-up searches brought the operation to 18 locations in the two counties, with more
than 30,000 plants, hundreds of thousands of dollars, automatic weapons, generators,
vehicles and a boat seized and a fourth arrest made.[3]Stone, a convicted felon, and
his wife Bria had been arrested on weapons and cultivation charges after about 1,700
plants were found at a Salmon Creek building they owned; the sheriff said the case would
go to the district attorney, with tax-evasion and conspiracy charges possible.[2][3]Officials said the sites ran year-round under lights with security systems, and that the
medical-marijuana law had nothing to do with them.[2][1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Day-of reporting counted 14,000 plants and three arrests; this report uses the later tally of 18 sites, more than 30,000 plants and four arrests.
Later searches added cash reported only as hundreds of thousands of dollars, without an exact total beyond the 206,000 dollars seized on the first day.
Whether the district attorney filed state charges against the Stones or the others arrested was not reported in the opened sources.
No photograph of the raids with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
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