Feds move to seize properties
Operation Southern Sweep raids end
(July 3, 2008) The federal government took the first step last Thursday toward seizing the nearly 2,000 acres near Whitethorn that were the main target of last week’s “Operation Southern Sweep.” The raids brought 450 agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, the IRS, the U.S. Postal Service and others, who joined local law enforcement.
According to documents recorded Thursday, June 26, in the Humboldt County Recorder’s office, U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello’s office filed a complaint for forfeiture in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, on three properties comprising multiple parcels in southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties. The parcels all belong to the Lost Paradise Land Corp.
The complaint alleges the three properties “facilitated violation” of the federal code that prohibits commercial marijuana cultivation and are therefore subject to forfeiture. The complaint notes, however, that the properties have not been seized but that notices of the complaint for forfeiture have been served to the properties and to the owners of record of the properties.
The complaint identifies the three properties thus:
The first: four Mendocino parcels totaling 960 acres, which the complaint calls the “Juan CC property,” owned by Robert Juan.
The second: 10 Mendocino parcels and two Humboldt parcels totaling about 945 acres, owned by Lost Paradise Land Corp.
The third: Two Mendocino parcels of unspecified acreage owned by Graeson Prescott and Paul Sayers.
The complaint says that on June 24, federal agents, acting on warrants, searched these properties and “found evidence of marijuana cultivation operations.” It describes what was found:
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Comment / By CRC / Oct. 20, 2008, 2 a.m.
Has anyone heard of anything happening recently in this matter?