Raids send two to jail, upend medical marijuana club
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EUGENE, Ore. - A narcotics task force searched a medical marijuana club in Eugene and four other addresses in Lane and Douglas counties last Thursday, arresting two men on various marijuana charges.
Curtis Shimmin, 54, was arrested and lodged at the Lane County jail on charges of Tampering with Evidence, Unlawful Possession of Marijuana, Unlawful Delivery of Marijuana, Unlawful Manufacturing of Marijuana and Money Laundering.
Austin Mullins, 23, was arrested and lodged at the Lane County jail on criminal charges of Unlawful Possession of Marijuana, Unlawful Delivery of Marijuana, and Unlawful Manufacturing of Marijuana.
The Lane County Interagency Narcotics Team executed search warrants at the Kannabosm medical marijuana club on West 11th and two other Eugene addresses downtown and on Highway 99 in the Trainsong area.
Police also searched addresses in Winston and Umpqua.
The raid left employees and customers at Kannabosm in shock - and the facility in disarray.
"Everything was in line with the state laws. All of our paperwork was in order. None of that was even checked," said Eric Chavez, Kannabosm manager. "They basically just came in to shut us down, no questions asked. We are just left to pick up the peices."
Shimmin is listed as the club's owner in corporate filings with the Oregon Secretary of State's Office. Shimmin declined to be interviewed by KVAL News.
The search warrants and arrests were part of several month long investigation into the illegal manufacturing and sales of marijuana, marijuana products and by-products, and money laundering, the Lane County Sheriff's Office said.
Law enforcmenet officers seized several pounds of processed bulk marijuana, numerous packages of marijuana and hashish packaged for sale, numerous packages of food and beverage products suspected of containing marijuana derivatives also packaged for sale, 105 growing marijuana plants from three of the locations weighing more than 400 pounds along with additional evidence of possible distribution and money laundering.
In a press release, the task force did not detail at which locations the items were seized.
At the Kannabosm club on W. 11th, the search left the storefront in tatters.
The Kannabosm club is asking patients to write letters to their lawmakers about how the raid affected them.
"The intent of this club was to provide safe access for people to come and get medicine rather than have to go get it on the streets," Chavez said.
"When the store wasn't open, I had to go find my meds somewhere else," said patient Adam Wing, "and for me personally I went straight to the street."
The Lane County Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team is comprised of personnel from the Oregon State Police, Lane County Sheriff’s Office, Eugene Police Department, Springfield Police Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Lane County District Attorney's Office.
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the Douglas County Interagency Narcotics Team (DINT) assisted.
Austin, can't believe they tried busting you guys. Hope they dropped all the charges. I haven't seen you, August,or Eric in almost 7 years. I'm not going to say my name but i think you remember they called the us "A" team or something like that back in middle school. Take care old buddy.Â
Legalize Pot, Tax it like cigarettes and stop the local storm trooper enforcement once and for all. That's all great but remember a change in Federal law is also necessary at this point.
 @thisBITES! Your last point is probably the most important one, until it's legalized at the fed level then it doesn't do much good for the States to decriminalize it.Â
there was no reason to trash the club other than just wanting to bully and intimidate people.november and every election here after remeber this and vote against the union thugs for freedom
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eugene-Moms-for-Marijuana/199077876888924
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its time to get loud and pissed off.but do it the right way Vote,and use the obama method of voting.Vote ontime and often,gather dead friends and help them vote also.lol.oh ok vote just once
These are nice guys!
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 I agree with all on here, end prohibition of marijuana. Lets use this government money to stop Meth and hard drugs, or hate crimes, rape, murder, trafficking, etc. This is a terrible thing to just come in a a place of business, especially if the setup is legal and just tear it apart.   If the vote for legalizing marijuana made it on the Oregon ballet this year, I think it will actually pass, because even non-smokers are realizing this war on pot is ridiculous for something less harmful then the legal Alcohol is and people are realizing the amount of extra money that can be pulled in when we tax weed just like cigarettes or Alcohol.  And of course I need to mention that money on cops to prevent the sale of weed and the space in jails for potheads will open it up.Â
Hey coppers, back off the weed already
Unfortunately, they are working at scaring all the rest of us, NOT to try this at home. Even if the majority of us want this service available. This is just a "witch hunt" of people who commit "crimes" with no victims, just to secure more federal dollars to waste, doing some more of this crap. What a waste of time and resources...while real criminals are let out of jail to house these two.
How is that meth issue going? I would imagine it is totally under control since this is what they are going after now!
@ANM0327 oh the meth its handled they just took apart a huge meth operation 6 trailers dumping fecal matter into a river that people use for water supply what could go wrong?
From an August 29 article: ""It is a concern," said Curtis Shimmin of the cannabis club Kannabosm in Eugene, who maintained that his operation was within the law. "Our program has been picked apart by several attorneys, and they have all assured me that what I am doing is 100 percent legal within state guidelines." We will now see how accurate those 'several attorneys' were.....of course, they are just 'practicing' law. Shimmin is the one who gets to experience the reality.
Time to terminate the DEA. And end the war on drugs.Â
 @givupongod SO HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. THE WAR ON DRUGS MEANS WHAT? MEDICINE TOO? MY BODY MY CHOICE; STATE LAW, STATE CHOICE. AND EUGENE SETS MURDERERS AND SEX OFFENDERS FREE TO MAKE FOR THIS "TERRORS" TO THE COMMUNITY. POLICE SHOULD HAVE TO PASS A COMPASSION TEST. NICE JOB TRASHING THE PLACE YOU TOUGH GUYS WITH BADGES.
@Sara Adams @givupongod The police are given a psychological examination, you have to be a sociopath to be considered for the job, these sociopaths are broken down into groups, for example, the sniper at Ruby Ridge was flown in special for that operation, his psych profile showed he had no compunction about shooting women or children, he shot the woman in the head as she was holding her infant child, she was unarmed and standing in the open, he shot her without remorse and the legal system refused to prosecute, they ended up paying 2 million, but that sniper is still out there as are all the other sociopaths, the kid the cops murdered on the coast here recently, same situation, they created the situation knowing how the individuals inside would respond and then murdered the kid when he took the bait. They use the compassion test to wash potential officers out.
very good. cops are, as that longest running screenplay called the bible says, MONEYCHANGERS!!Â
@PleaseBeSmart All truths are self evident, the police are corrupt absolutely.
 @Fancy Jack Of course there are some terrible, corrupt police officers... and there are psychopaths in every line of work. But it is NOT standard procedure to hire them as police officers. Their psychological screening is meant to weed out those who display a troubling mental profile. Believe it or not, honor is what is pushed and shrived for... it's the norm. Corruption and psychopathy certainly are not.
@PleaseBeSmart All my statements are back up by actual events and the brutality is now being videoed daily, they use to hide behind the integrity of the institution and prevail in court based on that integrity, with the advent of technology putting a camera in everyones hand the brutality is being videoed daily andis  irrefutable in court, the police have no integrity and their sociopathy is on display for the world to see, so much so, they are making it a crime to video the police because it interferes with their job., That in itself is self evidence that the brutality is understood to be part of the job. The young man on the coast was murdered as was the woman at Ruby Ridge all by sociopaths with badges. Look up the video where the police beat to death a retarded man, listen to him cry out for his daddy and listen to the police officers laughing as they beat him, watch as the police threaten the folks that videoed the event, there are two types of crooks, those in front of the badge and everyone behind the badge.
 @Fancy Jack You've really gone off the deep end there. They do no such thing.
 @Sara Adams  @givupongod Sara...there's no reason to yell. We are all right here and we can hear you just fine. Oh and good point
If police agencies suppliment their incomes with protection money from the illicit pot growers, you could understand why they would want to shut down the competition prior to harvest time to drive the price up, but wait until the IRS and BATF are policing pot, you will see that these guys are amateurs at wringing a buck out of a vice. If we have cops for pot raids, we have too many cops, cut their budgets, Would it not be a riot if they were acting under orders from the new Oregon Attorney General? We will see what a couple of hundred thousand will buy.
Follow the money, always.
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Cops, among many others, rely on Federal DEA money to keep them employed, and Federal policy is to enforce prohibition. That keeps the wasteful flow of money going to the groups that benefit from prohibition.Â
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And, the cops get to swagger into a business and trash the place. They've got egos to feed, you know. Bet some of them are getting drunk in a bar tonight celebrating.
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lane county sheriff we will remember this when you ask for more money to pay for stuff.the answer will be NO.you are not in charge of us we are in charge of you,you work at the will of the people you will be reminded of that next election
 @Iam1woody you are spot on. and if people want this stopped then vote. use that voice in the way it will be effective. vote for the change in the laws. the chance for that is coming up real soon.
I'd love to know why we're still dedicating time, money and manpower to policing marijuana when the county apparently can't even afford to have around the clock law enforcement and can't seem to respond to things like property crime.Â
@PleaseBeSmart because they can make money off of seizures
Bad piggies...no donuts for you.
I wonder what scum they let out of jail to make room for these two since jail space is so hard to get.
@KenzieDogg It would appear the murdering kind.