Sunday, November 10, 2024

ATF Leads Multi-Agency Raid in Redwood Valley

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[Stock image by Matt LaFever]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), assisted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO), conducted an extensive raid on a property in Redwood Valley yesterday.

DEA Agent Casey Rettig confirmed that the ATF was the lead agency in the operation. As of publication, the ATF San Francisco Field Office has not responded to requests for comment.

MCSO Captain Quincy Cromer told us, “Sheriff’s Office personnel were present to assist allied agencies on the Redwood Valley incident, but not the primary investigating agency.”

Information gathered from several community members who witnessed the raid told us the targeted property was on Laughlin Way. We learned multiple subjects were detained during the raid. Witnesses reported seeing an armored vehicle and a convoy of law enforcement officers involved in the operation.

One Redwood Valley resident said they were unhappy about law enforcement drones flying low over their property, especially since their home wasn’t the one being raided.

We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

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36 COMMENTS

  1. Is it legal for law enforcement to fly low, like 50-100 ft over your property without a warrant if you are not suspected of illegal activity? Seems they were just taking advantage of being in the area and seeing what else they could find on neighboring properties.

    • Probably. If they’re capturing images there may be some cc 1708.8 privacy violation issues but that stems from taking pics not what they see as they cruise by. There are also some trespass situations but I doubt those would apply here. Laws can be broken but does the local da try and prosecute the atf? Sorry that happened to you…crappy neighbors suck!!

    • Most Probably – when has it been any different – it would be different if one could always depend on law enforcement to sensitively follow the law themselves, and be devoted to justice in the most compassionate sense of the word, but I hear stories that is not yet true… I know it must be a challenging job, but it would be less so if people could be more confidently happy and relaxed, just to see you coming!

    • Come on now Raylan leave Benzedrine Brandon out of it.
      Let’s all just hope that his team of doctors do not tune him up to much and over amp him for tonights cringe fest.
      He might keel over at the podium.

      • Bots, shit peddlers, and idiots are locked in an endless circle jerk of stupidity, whilr dreaming of getting Cucked by the “can do no wrong” big orange grifting reality tv asshat shitbird criminal over-compensating autocrat w the little mushroom dick.

          • “Nobody”?
            Speak for the masses, now, orange cuck?
            Try a mirror, I know it’s scary, but you have to try.
            Dont feel threatened, the fear of facing facts is worse than the facts themselves.
            The only thing really at risk is the bullshit.
            Pull up your bootstraps, boy.
            Face the day, and don’t put out what you can’t take, chump…er, bully…wah wah wah all the way home, pinky.

            As usual mendo sadist, there’s nothing “maverick” there.
            Nothing maverick about parroting foul propaganda and the disinformation echo chamber.

            You’re acting like a russian troll’s pipe dream, a tool, worn and tired, finger banging the Raylin Givens bot in the Mendofever living room.

            A low rate, “hard-on-crime”, caged bottom cuck, who helps enable the con artist, orange felon & his cult of personality where the blind extremists lead the blind to become extremists. Basically, Putin cucks and anti-constitutional jackoffs.

            So sorry, not sorry, that reading comprehension is such a challenge, though, admittedly, I did ignore grammar in the run-on sentence in my last post.
            There are many reputable, free online courses that can help you succeed.
            Civics too.
            Propoganda study is a subset of freshman high school English courses, did you miss that week?
            Take a refresher or three.
            After you help yourself, you can help your fellow citizens be realists, not captured, ideological tools.

            Or just stay “comfortable” with your “tool” (regurgitator) status,
            willful ignorance,
            and near total incapacity for a healthy merit based debate vs leaning on debasement, diversion, and vomiting of falsehoods as a crutch.

            Again, don’t put out what you can’t take, orange snowflake.

    • No need for name calling Amanda.
      First of all I did not start up with the politics.
      I am guilty I suppose of taking advantage of the situation and replying with my usual dose of sarcasm.

  2. Was this the “juice” company that has a massive wall surrounding a bunch of hoop houses? The property always screamed “Tony Soprano” to me, though it could be legit. I’ve got no secret evidence to suggest anything nefarious is actually going on there.

  3. I can’t believe the information that’s missing in this article. What were the police agencies looking for. What was found in the raid. Who was arrested.

    • Good question.
      With that amount of law enforcement people and with the ATF involvement surely it was about more than just having way too many plants and too much cash processed around.

  4. very sad to see …
    MCSO is an “ally” of the ATF…

    “MCSO Captain Quincy Cromer told us, “Sheriff’s Office personnel were present to assist allied agencies on the Redwood Valley incident, but not the primary investigating agency.””

    the ATF… the ones who slaughtered folks at Ruby Ridge, Waco, Robert LaVoy Finicum, and now presume to legislate new gun law by fiat. who elected them?.

    sad to see MCSO just “follows orders” from f-troop.
    good to know what we the people are up against.

    • Does that mean that you’re a Mcvey ally or apologist?
      White nationalist?
      Anti-semite?
      Aryan Nation? Brotherhood? Congress?

      Finicum was killed by the OSP, Oregon State Patrol, in a joint op w the FBI. Finicum was reaching for his pocket, where there was a pistol, when shot.

      Get the facts.
      So much hogwash, so easily believed.

      FYI, the Ruby Ridge incident was primarily the US Marshals Service & the FBI HRT & SWAT
      ATF began the investigation, Weaver sold their informant 2 sawed-off shotguns. ATF later arrested him and he bailed out of jail.
      ATF did not participate in attempting to apprehend Weaver, deemed a “fugitive” after he didn’t show for court.
      Nor was ATF involved physically, thereafter.

      Further, ATF doesn’t “legislate” anything.
      Congress passed legislation REQUIRING ATF to make “Regulations” within the spirit and/or letter of the legislated guidlines within their jurisdiction.
      Nothing new.
      Every single government department and agency has been empowered in this way by Republican, Democrat, and bipartisan Congresses.
      Nothing new.

      • In spite of your personal attack, which you seem now to be famous for.
        1) Timothy McVey??? Jury is still out for me. Given all the bravo sierra f-troop has pulled off over the years? Have not researched enough.
        Suffice it to say, things are not always what they appear to be.
        2) Anti semite??? Not hardly ¼ of my family are Jewish.
        3) Aryan Nation…?? Not hardly mutha feckah
        4) White nationalist??? Well let my put it this way. I am a white Christian, hetero, male who loves our former Constitutional Republic.
        You know the type! The type you people have been attacking incrementally under the Alinsky rules for Radicals since bath house barry was
        elected despite his false birth certificate. The kind of people that you want to see dead…am I wrong? So, who is the real racist here?
        Begs the question what kind of satanical spawn are you??? guessing you prefer very special and sensitive pronouns. Perhaps you’re a
        wanna be soros appointed DA? Or maybe more specifically a member of the ATF family given your spoken loyalty??

        Finicum was assassinated by the minions of f-troop and assisted by the fbi. I do believe you are correct in saying that OSP pulled the trigger.
        Guess they were just “following orders” from f-troop. Geez an analogous situation to the one I pointed out in the initial post re MCSO. You got to
        ask yourself why they were motivated to do that? I would argue that hrc’s f-troop was especially PO’d at the Bundy family, given her Uranium 1
        pursuits, and they were hellbent on punishing anyone related …ergo Levoy met our maker. The question you really need to ask yourself is who
        ordered him dead as a rule of engagement?? Sure they say “he was reaching for a gun”. Did they actually ever admit that he had one?? Or is it
        something that is amazingly “still under investigation and cannot be discussed” as wray consistently repeats when testifying to congress.
        I can tell you the film footage inside Finicums truck, before he got out, proves that f-troop was taking unprovoked potshots at the 3 people inside.
        I’d say that would be a matter of self defense. I have seen the footage around the time it happened …sure it’s been cleansed now.

        Ruby ridge – the entire situation was initiated by ATF. Lon Horiuchi was the assassin in this shoot. He was indeed a FBI employee.
        Bottom line they all work for the same clown the DOJ AG and clearly trade resources on a regular basis. When they come out to Mendo
        county it won’t really matter which one it is…they’ll just expect the local SD roll over and follow orders lawless or not.
        As much as you seem to love the ATF it must make you so proud that the morons behind the triggers killed 2 innocents.

        Waco – here is where your division of agencies falls apart. See article below which points out
        Waco[edit]
        Main article: Waco siege
        “On September 13, 1993, Charles Riley, a fellow FBI sniper deployed with Horiuchi during the Waco Siege, claimed that he had heard Horiuchi shooting from sniper position number one (Sierra One), an FBI-held house in front of the compound holding eight snipers, on April 19, 1993. Riley later retracted his statement, saying that he had been misquoted, and that he had only heard snipers at Sierra One announce that shots had been fired by Branch Davidians. Riley later clarified that he had heard a radio report from Sierra One that someone at that position had witnessed gunfire from within the compound.[10]
        The Committee on Government reform notes that “There is no evidence that HRT snipers stationed at a house (designated the Sierra One sniper position) across the Double EE Ranch Road from the compound fired shots on April 19, 1993.”[10]
        Three of the twelve expended .308 caliber casings that the Texas Rangers reported finding in the house were at Horiuchi’s position. However, officials maintained that they were left behind from the earlier use of the house by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives snipers on February 28, 1993. The recovered casings at the house were tested and identified by the Texas Rangers and the Office of Special Counsel, matching them to weapons used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on February 28, 1993 and not those used by the FBI”
        Here is a link for you to celebrate the accomplishments of your heroes.
        “WACO – Who Shot First?” (whatreallyhappened.com)
        Here is your free agent assassin …maybe his poster hangs on your wall?

        photo
        Lon Horiuchi at Waco “money shot”

        photo
        Let us not forget David Chipman, former nominee to ATF. He got his trophy shot too

        And lastly ATF “legislation by fiat”
        You make the claim that “ATF doesn’t “legislate” anything”. Well actually that is exactly what they tried to do with the bumpstock.
        refer to the recent SCOTUS ruling against the ATF.

        Know this. I don’t do this for you. you have proven yourself repeatedly to be a detestable soul. I do this for the rest of the folks in
        Mendo County that still want a Constitutional Republic and wish to have a Sheriff’s Dept. with enough spine to honor their oath to the constitution.

        • Quote from my post:
          “Does that mean that you’re a Mcvey ally or apologist?
          White nationalist?
          Anti-semite?
          Aryan Nation? Brotherhood? Congress?”

          You take these questions as a personal attack?

          If so, you desperately need to grow some skin.

          That same level of knee-jerk presumptuousness is widely visible throughout your response, particularly in your accusations upon myself.

          My statments of readily available facts is not in way shape or form an endorsement of anyone or any agency.

          The assumptions are yours.
          And you readily make the same type of assumptions based on very thin correlations and associations of questionable info.

          Opinions based on falsehoods are a fantasy.

            • Asking questions is FAR different than making accusatory statements.
              Clearly, the difference escapes you.

              Your projections upon and presumptions about me are your own problem.

              Your issues with reading comprehension and logic are on you.

              Seeing implications everywhere, when none are made, are on you.

              I mean shit man, you believe the birther bullshit about Obama.

              You speak directly to your own lack of credibility.

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Matt LaFever
Matt LaFeverhttps://mendofever.com/
For the past seven years, Matt LaFever has covered the North Coast of California in both print and radio news. A Humboldt State graduate, he has lived in the Emerald Triangle for nearly 20 years. His reporting spans local issues like crime and wildfires. When not writing, Matt is an avid outdoorsman, exploring Northern California’s rugged landscapes. Reach out to him at matthewplafever@gmail.com.

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