Man accused of growing pot on land owned by Nutting
A man renting property owned by the Nutting Family Trust has been arrested on charges of marijuana cultivation.
Former El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting is a trustee.
Justen David Schultz, 44, is accused of growing pot in 10 foot by 30 foot, and 20 foot by 40 foot plots. There are also two greenhouses on the property on Gravel Court, according to officials.
Schultz also faces charges of transportation, distribution or importation of a controlled substance; cultivation of marijuana; and possession of marijuana for sale. An enhancement was also added.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
Should be more arrests coming when the network is exposed and this wouldn’t surprise anyone to see this level of criminal activity on this and other “Trust” properties. All of their other properties should be searched as well, all will add up and will likely point to them and should disclose that these illegal drug operations are being used to pay the ongoing legal fees and also used for laundering money in the county. This might well have other connections and out of state distribution. Wonder why the Sheriff’s Office waited a year to raid this place after it was discovered last year by a fly over with a deputy?
I don’t know for sure why they’d wait a year, but I remember back in the past, they’d always wait to bust a garden until shortly before harvest. More weight to the plants, bigger numbers, looks better on the PD records. And/or it could have to do with getting all the ducks in a row as far as the players are concerned.
Dog, the only details I know are from the LTN article. But I’ve experienced task forces for a lot of years, particularly federal ones (California BNE being, in my experience and by comparison, a responsible investigative agency) and they commonly do whatever is necessary to blow their case out of proportion and guild their personal legal lilies.
Some day ask an old timer from SLTPD about the SWAT raid the DEA task force made on the Police Department because a teenage volunteer had a boy friend dealing pot and the DEA commander saw an opportunity to phony up a police corruption case. Even trying to allege that the kid was “doing” some of the cops.
DEA showed up with their SWAT team – they were, unceremoniously, thrown out of the PD by a PD captain; a man, long since deceased, of strong principle.
I’m a lifelong Democrat, with no plan to change, and a supporter of President Obama. I’m saving most of my criticism until after he leaves office because I don’t want to provide comfort, let alone imagined ammunition, to the crazies who oppose our President.
But throughout his administration I’ve been a huge critic of Eric Holder and, by extension, my president, for permitting a Justice Department that represents their prosecuting U.S. Attorneys instead of the people’s interests.
I know there are folks hereon who have even stronger feelings than I about U.S. Attorneys. Y’all ought to hear what the non-DEA federal law enforcement folks, who have to build cases for them, have to say.
copper, the justice system has many fundamental flaws that can’t be blamed on any administration. Anyone who has spent the time and money to get be a lawyer will be career driven, that is understandable. True justice suffers while prosecutors try to climb the career ladder. In some cases law enforcement is part of the problem. I read an article about Louisiana’s prosecution of drug offenders and was disgusted. Highest incarceration rate, crazy sentences for marijuana, and their results are mediocre.
Pardon the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, but jails can be crime schools, which keep prosecutors and cops busy. The system doesn’t decrease recidivism.
caso, i do believe you are really over generializing your statement about people becoming lawyers just to go further in their career. There must be people who do it to help people, like civil rights lawyers, public defenders, enviromental lawyers dont you think? tnough I completely agree with you that jails tend to put people in a downward trend in their lives.
I think you misunderstood my comment, I may not have been clear. Either way the lawyers are a part of the problem. Not all, but enough of them are.
i think it was shakespere that said, first kill all lawyers, but if we did that we would have no congress or for that matter a president.