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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42966\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/potredding.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42966\" title=\"potredding\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/potredding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drug agent stands in a field of marijuana outside of Redding last year. (Photo: Michael Montgomery/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Friday, 4:20 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/14/northstone-organics-matt-cohen-mendocino-county-sheriff-tom-allman-on-yesterdays-dea-raid/\">Click here for an interview with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Friday, 1:10 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_19111535\">Northstone Organics owner Matthew Cohen spoke to the Ukiah Daily Journal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“They came in, guns blazing,” Cohen said of the Thursday morning raid. “They calmed down and were pleasant at the end, but they came in with machine guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agents arrived at 6 a.m., handcuffed Cohen and his wife and stayed until about 2 p.m., taking 99 marijuana plants, computers and testing equipment, according to Cohen. He said the agents threatened to file federal charges against him, but made no arrests during the raid…\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cohen was operating within Mendocino County’s licensing program for medical marijuana growers. As KQED’s Michael Montgomery \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107081630/b\">reported for The California Report\u003c/a> in July, Mendocino County is the “only place in California with an ordinance that makes it legal to be a cannabis farmer.” Montgomery even tagged along on a sheriff department’s visit to Cohen’s farm:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nAt an organic farm set in the sun-baked hills north of Ukiah, Mendocino sheriff Lieutenant Randy Johnson is having a most unusual meeting with the farm’s owner, Matt Cohen…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men walk toward rows of bushy, bright green marijuana plants bulging out of a fenced compound at the back of Cohen’s farm. Just a couple years ago, Johnson most likely would have been cutting down these plants and hauling them away as evidence. But today he’s here to inspect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each plant on Cohen’s farm has a red tag, stamped with a unique number that’s registered with the sheriff’s department. Under a county ordinance, Cohen can have up to 99 of these plants, and each can yield up to 15 pounds of dry bud. He delivers the processed marijuana to customers in the Bay Area who have a doctor’s recommendation as required by state law. The program costs pot farmers like Cohen up to $10,000 a year, and they must submit to monthly inspections by deputies like Johnson…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says the program allows marijuana growers to work and live more openly. “You meet somebody at the coffee shop and they say what do you do? Hey, I’m a cannabis farmer. It’s a big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino is the only place in California with an ordinance that makes it legal to be a cannabis farmer…Allman says county supervisors started the program out of frustration with the state’s medical-marijuana law, which doesn’t spell out how the industry should be regulated. So Allman says it’s been hard for everyone, from growers to law enforcement, to know what’s legal and what isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could put a subtitle on what we are doing, we are trying to remove the grey area,” says Allman. “And if we can remove the inconsistencies, if we can have people not confused about the marijuana laws then I have succeeded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allman says the fees collected from legal growers help pay the department to hunt down illegal ones. But Tommy LaNier of the National Marijuana Initiative doesn’t see a distinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All marijuana is illegal. There’s no question about it,” says LaNier. “Tom’s got a tough problem, but in my point of view it’s illegal.” LaNier helps coordinate enforcement actions under the White House Office of Drug Control Policy. He insists that neither California’s marijuana law, nor the Mendocino licensing program, are allowed under the federal Controlled Substances Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to be extremely careful when you enact laws that are in violation of the federal statues, because it won’t fly,” says LaNier… (He) says a federal crackdown could be coming. The Justice Department recently warned that local governments — and officials — who run permit programs like Mendocino’s could face federal prosecution, regardless of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those entities, whether it be a city or county that facilitates in the allowance of that through some type of mechanism, whether it’s a permit program or something like that, could be a target? They could be a target.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Indeed. Last Friday, at a joint press conference of the four U.S. Attorneys for California, Melinda Haag, the U.S. Attorney for Northern California, said the following: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another challenge in the Northern District of California and around the state is the phenomena of cities and counties assisting in the proliferation of marijuana shops and grow operations by licensing and ostensibly authorizing the commercial and very profitable cultivation and distribution of marijuana. In our view these licensing schemes are inconsistent with federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OiUEq-1BYs&feature=player_embedded#!\">video of Matt Cohen speaking about Northstone Organics\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/4OiUEq-1BYs\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yesterday’s posts\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:50 p.m.\u003c/em> The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20111013/ARTICLES/111019773/1350?Title=Feds-raid-medical-pot-co-op-near-Ukiah\">\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa Press Democrat has the story up\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>U.S. Drug Enforcement Agents on Thursday raided a medical marijuana cooperative that holds a Mendocino County Sheriff’s permit to grow medicinal pot, further demonstrating the gaping discrepancy between state and federal marijuana laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seizure of 99 pot plants came less than a week after U.S. Justice Department prosecutors in California attorneys announced they would be cracking down on medical marijuana, which continues to be illegal under federal law 15 years after the state’s voters approved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEA officials declined to comment on the raid on Northstone Organics, located about 10 miles north of Ukiah in Redwood Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early morning operation shook the medical marijuana community because Northstone has been a model of compliance with local and state laws. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20111013/ARTICLES/111019773/1350?Title=Feds-raid-medical-pot-co-op-near-Ukiah\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: 5:08 p.m.\u003c/em> William Panzer, attorney for Matt Cohen of marijuana co-op Northstone Organics, told us the raid on Northstone, first publicized by marijuana advocacy group California NORML, has indeed occurred. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it happened at Northstone Organics, and yes it happened at a residence,” said Panzer this afternoon. Panzer is on the \u003ca href=\"http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7835\">NORML Board of Directors\u003c/a> and is the co-author of the 1996 California initiative that legalized medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dispensary does not have a storefront, but operates on a delivery-only basis, he said. “And Mr. Cohen lives on the same property where the medicine is cultivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzer said there were eight agents total, including six DEA agents, one Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent, and one Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputy, who oversaw the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he had not yet seen the search warrant — because agents confiscated Cohen’s computers — but the agents cut down all of the marijuana plants and confiscated records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, a DEA spokesperson would only confirm to us that the agency was in Ukiah “conducting an enforcement action,” and said no specifics would be given until documents related to the search are unsealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northstone Organics’ web site is down, but you can see it at the \u003ca href=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LmygcvZj6CYJ:www.northstoneorganics.com/+northstone+organics&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a\">Google cache\u003c/a> from October 7. And here’s the \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/search/northstone%20organics\">latest on Twitter\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Matthew Cohen was featured in Frontline television special, produced in collaboration with KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Skip to 1:51 to see Cohen working with a Sheriff’s Deputy on a routine inspection.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 11px;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #808080;margin-top: 5px;background: transparent;text-align: center;width: 512px\">Watch \u003ca href=\"http://video.pbs.org/video/2068861722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Sheriff’s Radical Experiment\u003c/a> on PBS. See more from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\nLast Wednesday, Melinda Haag, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, along with the three other California U.S. Attorneys, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">announced coming law enforcement actions against medical marijuana dispensaries and growers\u003c/a>.\n\u003cp>Here’s part of what Haag said about the proliferation of California marijuana dispensaries at the joint press conference:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money. In short to engage in drug trafficking. And many of these drug trafficking operations are in plain site. In many communities like mine you can’t walk a mile without seeing multiple retail marijuana stores, sometimes surrounded by fences and patrolled by security guards. If you sit and watch for a moment, you see cars pulling over, seemingly young healthy people jumping out of the cars, running into the store, and emerging with paper bags full of marijuana.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nFrom the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_19106498\">Ukiah Journal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Responding to several reports that federal agents raided the medical marijuana cooperative Northstone Organics Thursday morning, the DEA confirmed it was conducting enforcement operations in Ukiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casey McEnry, a spokeswoman for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, said Thursday that the operations were ongoing at about noon, and that she could not reveal further information because the documents were under court seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) reported Thursday morning that Northstone Organics was raided, and called the cooperative “a pioneering participant in Mendocino County’s innovative zip-tie’ program to license medical marijuana gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, through the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, issues zip ties to growers whose marijuana gardens meet state and county guidelines for medical grows, so the growers can affix them to the plants to show compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to the local cooperative, located on South State Street in Ukiah, were unanswered shortly after noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEnry said DEA agents were not at Northstone Organics, but were at a Ukiah residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local authorities, including the MCSO and Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force, knew of marijuana enforcement operations in the Ukiah Valley Thursday morning but did not confirm the location.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>DEA Public information Officer Casey McEnry told KQED’s Sasha Khoka that she could only confirm the agency is “in Ukiah today conducting an enforcement action,” but wouldn’t give any more specifics until documents related to the search are unsealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The web site of \u003ca href=\"https://www.northstoneorganics.com/\">Northstone Organics\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2011/10/13/campaign-of-terror-feds-raid-northstone-organics-today-and-threaten-media-outlets/\">medical marijuana advocates believe is the target of the raid\u003c/a>, is currently down, and no one is answering the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you can see below, the purported raid on Northstone Organics is being widely distributed on Twitter. The “Medical Cannabis Patient Compassionate Center” \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/axisoflove\">Axis of Love\u003c/a> in San Francisco is calling for a demonstration tomorrow to protest the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Matthew Cohen of Northstone Organics was featured on KQED TV’s special on the pot-growing boom, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/08/video-watch-republic-of-cannabis-about-calif-pot-growing-boom-and-federal-pushback/\">Republic of Cannabis\u003c/a>. As the show depicts, Cohen has registered with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department and is operating with the department’s permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/08/video-watch-republic-of-cannabis-about-calif-pot-growing-boom-and-federal-pushback/\">Watch the show here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/2bFUASotNXk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Wednesday, Melinda Haag, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, along with the three other California U.S. Attorneys, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">announced coming law enforcement actions against medical marijuana dispensaries and growers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s part of what Haag said about the proliferation of California marijuana dispensaries at the joint press conference:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money. In short to engage in drug trafficking. And many of these drug trafficking operations are in plain site. In many communities like mine you can’t walk a mile without seeing multiple retail marijuana stores, sometimes surrounded by fences and patrolled by security guards. If you sit and watch for a moment, you see cars pulling over, seemingly young healthy people jumping out of the cars, running into the store, and emerging with paper bags full of marijuana.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/#audio\">Audio and a transcript of Haag’s comments\u003c/a> at the joint announcement last week.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Photo: Michael Montgomery/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Friday, 4:20 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/14/northstone-organics-matt-cohen-mendocino-county-sheriff-tom-allman-on-yesterdays-dea-raid/\">Click here for an interview with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Friday, 1:10 p.m.\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_19111535\">Northstone Organics owner Matthew Cohen spoke to the Ukiah Daily Journal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“They came in, guns blazing,” Cohen said of the Thursday morning raid. “They calmed down and were pleasant at the end, but they came in with machine guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agents arrived at 6 a.m., handcuffed Cohen and his wife and stayed until about 2 p.m., taking 99 marijuana plants, computers and testing equipment, according to Cohen. He said the agents threatened to file federal charges against him, but made no arrests during the raid…\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cohen was operating within Mendocino County’s licensing program for medical marijuana growers. As KQED’s Michael Montgomery \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107081630/b\">reported for The California Report\u003c/a> in July, Mendocino County is the “only place in California with an ordinance that makes it legal to be a cannabis farmer.” Montgomery even tagged along on a sheriff department’s visit to Cohen’s farm:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nAt an organic farm set in the sun-baked hills north of Ukiah, Mendocino sheriff Lieutenant Randy Johnson is having a most unusual meeting with the farm’s owner, Matt Cohen…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men walk toward rows of bushy, bright green marijuana plants bulging out of a fenced compound at the back of Cohen’s farm. Just a couple years ago, Johnson most likely would have been cutting down these plants and hauling them away as evidence. But today he’s here to inspect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each plant on Cohen’s farm has a red tag, stamped with a unique number that’s registered with the sheriff’s department. Under a county ordinance, Cohen can have up to 99 of these plants, and each can yield up to 15 pounds of dry bud. He delivers the processed marijuana to customers in the Bay Area who have a doctor’s recommendation as required by state law. The program costs pot farmers like Cohen up to $10,000 a year, and they must submit to monthly inspections by deputies like Johnson…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says the program allows marijuana growers to work and live more openly. “You meet somebody at the coffee shop and they say what do you do? Hey, I’m a cannabis farmer. It’s a big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino is the only place in California with an ordinance that makes it legal to be a cannabis farmer…Allman says county supervisors started the program out of frustration with the state’s medical-marijuana law, which doesn’t spell out how the industry should be regulated. So Allman says it’s been hard for everyone, from growers to law enforcement, to know what’s legal and what isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could put a subtitle on what we are doing, we are trying to remove the grey area,” says Allman. “And if we can remove the inconsistencies, if we can have people not confused about the marijuana laws then I have succeeded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allman says the fees collected from legal growers help pay the department to hunt down illegal ones. But Tommy LaNier of the National Marijuana Initiative doesn’t see a distinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All marijuana is illegal. There’s no question about it,” says LaNier. “Tom’s got a tough problem, but in my point of view it’s illegal.” LaNier helps coordinate enforcement actions under the White House Office of Drug Control Policy. He insists that neither California’s marijuana law, nor the Mendocino licensing program, are allowed under the federal Controlled Substances Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to be extremely careful when you enact laws that are in violation of the federal statues, because it won’t fly,” says LaNier… (He) says a federal crackdown could be coming. The Justice Department recently warned that local governments — and officials — who run permit programs like Mendocino’s could face federal prosecution, regardless of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those entities, whether it be a city or county that facilitates in the allowance of that through some type of mechanism, whether it’s a permit program or something like that, could be a target? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OiUEq-1BYs&feature=player_embedded#!\">video of Matt Cohen speaking about Northstone Organics\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/4OiUEq-1BYs\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yesterday’s posts\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:50 p.m.\u003c/em> The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20111013/ARTICLES/111019773/1350?Title=Feds-raid-medical-pot-co-op-near-Ukiah\">\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa Press Democrat has the story up\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>U.S. Drug Enforcement Agents on Thursday raided a medical marijuana cooperative that holds a Mendocino County Sheriff’s permit to grow medicinal pot, further demonstrating the gaping discrepancy between state and federal marijuana laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seizure of 99 pot plants came less than a week after U.S. Justice Department prosecutors in California attorneys announced they would be cracking down on medical marijuana, which continues to be illegal under federal law 15 years after the state’s voters approved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DEA officials declined to comment on the raid on Northstone Organics, located about 10 miles north of Ukiah in Redwood Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early morning operation shook the medical marijuana community because Northstone has been a model of compliance with local and state laws. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20111013/ARTICLES/111019773/1350?Title=Feds-raid-medical-pot-co-op-near-Ukiah\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: 5:08 p.m.\u003c/em> William Panzer, attorney for Matt Cohen of marijuana co-op Northstone Organics, told us the raid on Northstone, first publicized by marijuana advocacy group California NORML, has indeed occurred. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it happened at Northstone Organics, and yes it happened at a residence,” said Panzer this afternoon. Panzer is on the \u003ca href=\"http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7835\">NORML Board of Directors\u003c/a> and is the co-author of the 1996 California initiative that legalized medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dispensary does not have a storefront, but operates on a delivery-only basis, he said. “And Mr. Cohen lives on the same property where the medicine is cultivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzer said there were eight agents total, including six DEA agents, one Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent, and one Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputy, who oversaw the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he had not yet seen the search warrant — because agents confiscated Cohen’s computers — but the agents cut down all of the marijuana plants and confiscated records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, a DEA spokesperson would only confirm to us that the agency was in Ukiah “conducting an enforcement action,” and said no specifics would be given until documents related to the search are unsealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northstone Organics’ web site is down, but you can see it at the \u003ca href=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LmygcvZj6CYJ:www.northstoneorganics.com/+northstone+organics&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a\">Google cache\u003c/a> from October 7. And here’s the \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/search/northstone%20organics\">latest on Twitter\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Matthew Cohen was featured in Frontline television special, produced in collaboration with KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Skip to 1:51 to see Cohen working with a Sheriff’s Deputy on a routine inspection.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 11px;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #808080;margin-top: 5px;background: transparent;text-align: center;width: 512px\">Watch \u003ca href=\"http://video.pbs.org/video/2068861722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Sheriff’s Radical Experiment\u003c/a> on PBS. See more from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\nLast Wednesday, Melinda Haag, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, along with the three other California U.S. Attorneys, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">announced coming law enforcement actions against medical marijuana dispensaries and growers\u003c/a>.\n\u003cp>Here’s part of what Haag said about the proliferation of California marijuana dispensaries at the joint press conference:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money. In short to engage in drug trafficking. And many of these drug trafficking operations are in plain site. In many communities like mine you can’t walk a mile without seeing multiple retail marijuana stores, sometimes surrounded by fences and patrolled by security guards. If you sit and watch for a moment, you see cars pulling over, seemingly young healthy people jumping out of the cars, running into the store, and emerging with paper bags full of marijuana.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nFrom the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_19106498\">Ukiah Journal\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Responding to several reports that federal agents raided the medical marijuana cooperative Northstone Organics Thursday morning, the DEA confirmed it was conducting enforcement operations in Ukiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casey McEnry, a spokeswoman for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, said Thursday that the operations were ongoing at about noon, and that she could not reveal further information because the documents were under court seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) reported Thursday morning that Northstone Organics was raided, and called the cooperative “a pioneering participant in Mendocino County’s innovative zip-tie’ program to license medical marijuana gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, through the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, issues zip ties to growers whose marijuana gardens meet state and county guidelines for medical grows, so the growers can affix them to the plants to show compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to the local cooperative, located on South State Street in Ukiah, were unanswered shortly after noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEnry said DEA agents were not at Northstone Organics, but were at a Ukiah residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local authorities, including the MCSO and Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force, knew of marijuana enforcement operations in the Ukiah Valley Thursday morning but did not confirm the location.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>DEA Public information Officer Casey McEnry told KQED’s Sasha Khoka that she could only confirm the agency is “in Ukiah today conducting an enforcement action,” but wouldn’t give any more specifics until documents related to the search are unsealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The web site of \u003ca href=\"https://www.northstoneorganics.com/\">Northstone Organics\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2011/10/13/campaign-of-terror-feds-raid-northstone-organics-today-and-threaten-media-outlets/\">medical marijuana advocates believe is the target of the raid\u003c/a>, is currently down, and no one is answering the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you can see below, the purported raid on Northstone Organics is being widely distributed on Twitter. The “Medical Cannabis Patient Compassionate Center” \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/axisoflove\">Axis of Love\u003c/a> in San Francisco is calling for a demonstration tomorrow to protest the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Matthew Cohen of Northstone Organics was featured on KQED TV’s special on the pot-growing boom, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/08/video-watch-republic-of-cannabis-about-calif-pot-growing-boom-and-federal-pushback/\">Republic of Cannabis\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three contenders: San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, sheriff’s Capt. Paul Miyamoto, and Chris Cunnie, formerly an undersheriff, San Francisco police officer and president of the Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saul Sugarman was there reporting for KQED. There were no opportunities for the audience to ask questions, he says, but many applauded statements by their favorite candidates — namely Mirkarimi and Miyamoto. Only a handful of apparent Cunnie supporters made a showing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say Mirkarimi is definitely the most articulate, but Miyamoto has the internal experience that I think is really beneficial in a law enforcement setting,” said Constance Farrell, a master’s student at USF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the issues debated: whether deputies should be on patrol, if the sheriff’s department should merge with SFPD, whether civilian oversight of the sheriff’s department should exist, and how to tackle substance abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the issue of civilian oversight, Chris Cunnie was opposed. Miyamoto thought the department had already incorporated civilians into its operations, and that elections by themselves served as an adequate populist monitor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe the people have the ultimate oversight here because the sheriff is an elected position,” he said. “Every four years, the people themselves determine whether or not the sheriff is doing the job in terms of managing and in terms of oversight in these areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In support of civilian oversight, Mirkarimi said, “excessive use of force or abuse of authority is sometimes a routine hazard or industry hazard outside the jail system and certainly inside the jail system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A debate among the candidates last week focused on realignment — the recent transfer of thousands of prisoners by the state to county jails, including the six in San Francisco. 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And if you legalize it that’s the message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyamoto says now’s not the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take a massive undertaking and a lot of money and resources to do that effectively,” said Miyamoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi says legalize it and save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Governments have absolutely wasted billions of dollars in the war on drugs,” said Mirkarimi. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also hear the candidates talk about realignment, as well as their views on rehabilitation, in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wFJyexLdGs&feature=related\">\u003cstrong>video from an October debate\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, moderated by KQED’s Belva Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/04/29/what-is-immigration-and-customs-secure-communities-and-ab-1081/\">Secure Communities\u003c/a>, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s program that requires local law enforcement agencies to send fingerprints of everyone who has been arrested to a central federal database for a check on their immigration status, Mirkarimi and Miyamoto addressed the issue in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/san-francisco-sheriff-race_n_897271.html\">Huffington Post\u003c/a> piece on July 13 (before Cunnie entered the race). Hennessey has made headlines by \u003ca href=\"http://informant.kalwnews.org/2010/09/secure-communities-is-there-any-way-out/\">attempting to opt out of the program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Huffington Post: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Miyamoto paints a picture of a department that could be run on a basis of consensus. Even as contentious an issue as the Secure Communities immigration program, Miyamoto said, could be divorced to some extent from politics. Hennessey has decided to release possibly undocumented prisoners before Immigration and Customs Enforcement can identify their fingerprints, much to the offense of conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said while that decision had “obvious political components,” it was also “a decision balancing different laws and the priorities of the community. In that respect it is political, but I don’t think it is overtly political.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he made a very tough decision on a complex issue. 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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/feds-target-newspapers-radio-marijuana-ads-13049\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42771\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 268px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/sacNews_and_review.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-42771\" title=\"SNR_420pg01_041411\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/sacNews_and_review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sacramento News & Review published a special section of pot dispensary ads in April.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors are preparing to target newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets that advertise medical marijuana dispensaries in California, another escalation in the Obama administration's newly invigorated war against the state's pot industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, U.S. attorneys representing four districts in California announced that the government would single out \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/landlords-property-owners-are-new-targets-anti-pot-strategy-12967\">landlords and property owners\u003c/a> who rent buildings or land where dispensaries sell or cultivators grow marijuana. Now, newspapers and other media outlets could be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy, whose district includes Imperial and San Diego counties, said marijuana advertising is the next area she's \"going to be moving onto as part of the enforcement efforts in Southern California.\" Duffy said she could not speak for the three other U.S. attorneys covering the state, but noted their efforts have been coordinated so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not just seeing print advertising,\" Duffy said in an interview with California Watch and KQED. \"I'm actually hearing radio and seeing TV advertising. It's gone mainstream. Not only is it inappropriate – one has to wonder what kind of message we're sending to our children – it's against the law.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law prohibits people from placing ads for illegal drugs, including marijuana, in \"any newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication.\" The law could conceivably extend to online ads; the U.S. Department of Justice recently extracted a $500 million settlement from Google for selling illegal ads linking to online Canadian pharmacies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duffy said her effort against TV, radio or print outlets would first include \"going after these folks with ... notification that they are in violation of federal law.\" She noted that she also has the power to seize property or prosecute in civil and criminal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William G. Panzer, an attorney who specializes in marijuana defense cases, said publishers may have a reason to worry. Federal law singles out anyone who \"places\" an illegal ad in a newspaper or publication. Nevertheless, Panzer said he is not aware of a single appellate case dealing with this section of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technically, if I'm running the newspaper and somebody gives me money and says, 'Here's the ad,' I'm the one who is physically putting the ad in my newspaper,\" he said. \"I think this could be brought against the actual newspaper. Certainly, it's arguable, but the statute is not entirely clear on that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003cimg title=\"Medical Marijuana Ads in the SF Bay Guardian\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.org/2011/10/12/MJAds2101211.jpg\" alt=\"Medical Marijuana Ads\" width=\"298\" height=\"198\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Bay Guardian is one of many alternative weekly newspapers that runs dozens of ads for medical marijuana. Sarah Terry-Cobo/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Panzer said the penalty for a first offense is a maximum four years in prison and eight years for someone with a prior felony conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the federal law, an exception is made for ads that advocate the use of illegal drugs but don't explicitly offer them for sale or distribution. Newspapers, Panzer said, could argue that they have a right under the First Amendment to run the ads, and any \"prior restraint\" before publication is itself illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duffy said she believes the law gives her the right to prosecute newspaper publishers or TV station owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I own a newspaper ... or I own a TV station, and I'm going to take in your money to place these ads, I'm the person who is placing these ads,\" Duffy said. \"I am willing to read (the law) expansively and if a court wants to more narrowly define it, that would be up to the court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven states, including California, allow for medical marijuana to be distributed in dispensaries, though more than 200 California cities and nearly two dozen counties have bans or moratoriums in place on storefront pot businesses. The industry has otherwise exploded in recent years, including a marked increase in \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/marijuana-delivery-services-evade-bans-dispensaries-spreading-across-california\">delivery services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngaio Bealum, publisher of West Coast Cannabis, \u003ca href=\"http://calpotnews.com/west-coast-cannabis-publisher-to-appear-at-comedy-benefit/\">described\u003c/a> as \"the Sunset magazine of weed,\" said he receives a significant portion of his revenue from dispensary ads, though he has tough competition from alternative newspapers and even The Sacramento Bee, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/144086/sacramento-bee-begins-running-medical-marijuna-ads/\">began running\u003c/a> print advertisements for dispensaries this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bealum said it was \"misguided for the Department of Justice to come after people who are following state law and doing well for the economy in a recession.\" He disputed the notion that marijuana ads target children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're just in doctor's offices and cannabis collectives, where you have to be 18 years old or where you have to be a patient,\" he said. \"We're not targeting anyone but cannabis patients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duffy said Proposition 215, also known as the Compassionate Use Act, passed by California voters in 1996 has transformed from an effort to supply marijuana to sick people through nonprofit groups into a profit-making industry. She said the advertising is part of that – and \"it's illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003cimg title=\"The San Diego Reader special section\" src=\"http://californiawatch.org/files/imagecache/image-insert-right-align/Screen%20shot%202011-10-12%20at%2010.21.20%20AM.png\" alt=\"Medical Marijuana Ads\" width=\"298\" height=\"198\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Diego Reader website includes a special section devoted to marijuana dispensaries\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Duffy said she's seen marijuana stores advertise coupons, bring-a-friend deals, extra samples for buying a certain amount of marijuana, magazines devoted entirely to the industry, T-shirts for sale, marijuana linked to video games – all things, she said, \"in large part directed at our youth and children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The good intentions behind that law,\" she said, \"have almost completely been taken over by people who are trying to use that permission law to get rich, to distribute marijuana and traffic drugs to people who aren't sick, to our youth and to people who are using drugs on a recreational basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's clear that alternative newspapers throughout the state have benefited from the increased business, even as other advertising sources have dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the Sacramento News & Review published a \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/420-guide/content?oid=1957035\">special supplement devoted exclusively to marijuana dispensaries\u003c/a>. \"This year’s edition includes more than 100 regional medical-cannabis dispensaries, physicians, and med-delivery and hydroponics shops for the 2011 Green Pages,\" the newspaper wrote. Marijuana dispensary ads, which have in the past cost $2,000 for a full page, allowed the News & Review to hire additional reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t see how the News & Review running medical-marijuana ads is any different from TV stations running massive amounts of commercials for pharmaceutical companies selling drugs,\" Jeff vonKaenel, CEO and majority owner of the News & Review, wrote in aMay 2010 column about the advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview about Duffy's statement, vonKaenel said he was \"stunned by that interpretation of the First Amendment.\" He said his publications \"receive quite a bit of revenue from (dispensaries) and it would have a detrimental impact\" if he was forced to stop publishing the ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzer said he doesn't think the federal government can effectively shut down the marijuana industry, even if it makes short-term gains by targeting high-profile dispensaries and newspapers. Given the government's lack of resources and the huge size of the marijuana industry, Panzer said officials' efforts are \"a losing proposition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government is trying to put the genie back in the bottle,\" Panzer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circumventing the law on advertising the sale of illegal drugs can bring expensive consequences. In August, Google \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576528332418595052.html\">agreed to pay a $500 million settlement\u003c/a> for accepting illegal advertisements from online Canadian pharmacies. Employees of the company had been working with pharmacies to bypass Google's own internal controls, even as Google executives testified before Congress, claiming the company had clamped down on the illegal ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fine was one of the largest ever from a U.S. company. At the time of the settlement, Google said in a statement that \"it's obvious with hindsight that we shouldn't have allowed these ads on Google in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is not the only state struggling with the issue of marijuana ads. In Colorado, the city of Boulder recently voted to ban medical marijuana ads that target young people or recreational users. Now, the city clerk will decide if the tone of the ads crosses the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government's recent crackdown on the marijuana industry coincides with a February 2011 memorandum written by the state’s four top federal prosecutors, outlining a uniform approach to enforcing federal marijuana laws in California. The document, reviewed by California Watch, places an emphasis on federal investigations that target “leaders and organizers of the criminal activity as opposed to lower-level workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memorandum sets thresholds that make investigations more likely to be prosecuted. Those include distributors caught with at least 200 kilograms of marijuana, including distribution near schools, playgrounds and colleges; cultivators with gardens of at least 1,000 plants that are not on federal land and at least 500 plants on federal or tribal land or where there is significant damage; and dispensaries that sell more than 200 kilograms or 1,000 plants annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">California U.S. Attorneys Target Pot Growers, Retailers\u003c/a> (News Fix)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Montgomery is an investigative reporter with KQED News and California Watch. Read more from California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Nevertheless, Panzer said he is not aware of a single appellate case dealing with this section of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technically, if I'm running the newspaper and somebody gives me money and says, 'Here's the ad,' I'm the one who is physically putting the ad in my newspaper,\" he said. \"I think this could be brought against the actual newspaper. Certainly, it's arguable, but the statute is not entirely clear on that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003cimg title=\"Medical Marijuana Ads in the SF Bay Guardian\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.org/2011/10/12/MJAds2101211.jpg\" alt=\"Medical Marijuana Ads\" width=\"298\" height=\"198\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Bay Guardian is one of many alternative weekly newspapers that runs dozens of ads for medical marijuana. Sarah Terry-Cobo/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Panzer said the penalty for a first offense is a maximum four years in prison and eight years for someone with a prior felony conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the federal law, an exception is made for ads that advocate the use of illegal drugs but don't explicitly offer them for sale or distribution. Newspapers, Panzer said, could argue that they have a right under the First Amendment to run the ads, and any \"prior restraint\" before publication is itself illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duffy said she believes the law gives her the right to prosecute newspaper publishers or TV station owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I own a newspaper ... or I own a TV station, and I'm going to take in your money to place these ads, I'm the person who is placing these ads,\" Duffy said. \"I am willing to read (the law) expansively and if a court wants to more narrowly define it, that would be up to the court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven states, including California, allow for medical marijuana to be distributed in dispensaries, though more than 200 California cities and nearly two dozen counties have bans or moratoriums in place on storefront pot businesses. The industry has otherwise exploded in recent years, including a marked increase in \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/marijuana-delivery-services-evade-bans-dispensaries-spreading-across-california\">delivery services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngaio Bealum, publisher of West Coast Cannabis, \u003ca href=\"http://calpotnews.com/west-coast-cannabis-publisher-to-appear-at-comedy-benefit/\">described\u003c/a> as \"the Sunset magazine of weed,\" said he receives a significant portion of his revenue from dispensary ads, though he has tough competition from alternative newspapers and even The Sacramento Bee, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/144086/sacramento-bee-begins-running-medical-marijuna-ads/\">began running\u003c/a> print advertisements for dispensaries this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bealum said it was \"misguided for the Department of Justice to come after people who are following state law and doing well for the economy in a recession.\" He disputed the notion that marijuana ads target children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're just in doctor's offices and cannabis collectives, where you have to be 18 years old or where you have to be a patient,\" he said. \"We're not targeting anyone but cannabis patients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duffy said Proposition 215, also known as the Compassionate Use Act, passed by California voters in 1996 has transformed from an effort to supply marijuana to sick people through nonprofit groups into a profit-making industry. She said the advertising is part of that – and \"it's illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003cimg title=\"The San Diego Reader special section\" src=\"http://californiawatch.org/files/imagecache/image-insert-right-align/Screen%20shot%202011-10-12%20at%2010.21.20%20AM.png\" alt=\"Medical Marijuana Ads\" width=\"298\" height=\"198\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Diego Reader website includes a special section devoted to marijuana dispensaries\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Duffy said she's seen marijuana stores advertise coupons, bring-a-friend deals, extra samples for buying a certain amount of marijuana, magazines devoted entirely to the industry, T-shirts for sale, marijuana linked to video games – all things, she said, \"in large part directed at our youth and children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The good intentions behind that law,\" she said, \"have almost completely been taken over by people who are trying to use that permission law to get rich, to distribute marijuana and traffic drugs to people who aren't sick, to our youth and to people who are using drugs on a recreational basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's clear that alternative newspapers throughout the state have benefited from the increased business, even as other advertising sources have dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the Sacramento News & Review published a \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/420-guide/content?oid=1957035\">special supplement devoted exclusively to marijuana dispensaries\u003c/a>. \"This year’s edition includes more than 100 regional medical-cannabis dispensaries, physicians, and med-delivery and hydroponics shops for the 2011 Green Pages,\" the newspaper wrote. Marijuana dispensary ads, which have in the past cost $2,000 for a full page, allowed the News & Review to hire additional reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t see how the News & Review running medical-marijuana ads is any different from TV stations running massive amounts of commercials for pharmaceutical companies selling drugs,\" Jeff vonKaenel, CEO and majority owner of the News & Review, wrote in aMay 2010 column about the advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview about Duffy's statement, vonKaenel said he was \"stunned by that interpretation of the First Amendment.\" He said his publications \"receive quite a bit of revenue from (dispensaries) and it would have a detrimental impact\" if he was forced to stop publishing the ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panzer said he doesn't think the federal government can effectively shut down the marijuana industry, even if it makes short-term gains by targeting high-profile dispensaries and newspapers. Given the government's lack of resources and the huge size of the marijuana industry, Panzer said officials' efforts are \"a losing proposition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government is trying to put the genie back in the bottle,\" Panzer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circumventing the law on advertising the sale of illegal drugs can bring expensive consequences. In August, Google \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576528332418595052.html\">agreed to pay a $500 million settlement\u003c/a> for accepting illegal advertisements from online Canadian pharmacies. Employees of the company had been working with pharmacies to bypass Google's own internal controls, even as Google executives testified before Congress, claiming the company had clamped down on the illegal ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fine was one of the largest ever from a U.S. company. At the time of the settlement, Google said in a statement that \"it's obvious with hindsight that we shouldn't have allowed these ads on Google in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is not the only state struggling with the issue of marijuana ads. In Colorado, the city of Boulder recently voted to ban medical marijuana ads that target young people or recreational users. Now, the city clerk will decide if the tone of the ads crosses the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government's recent crackdown on the marijuana industry coincides with a February 2011 memorandum written by the state’s four top federal prosecutors, outlining a uniform approach to enforcing federal marijuana laws in California. The document, reviewed by California Watch, places an emphasis on federal investigations that target “leaders and organizers of the criminal activity as opposed to lower-level workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memorandum sets thresholds that make investigations more likely to be prosecuted. Those include distributors caught with at least 200 kilograms of marijuana, including distribution near schools, playgrounds and colleges; cultivators with gardens of at least 1,000 plants that are not on federal land and at least 500 plants on federal or tribal land or where there is significant damage; and dispensaries that sell more than 200 kilograms or 1,000 plants annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">California U.S. Attorneys Target Pot Growers, Retailers\u003c/a> (News Fix)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42655\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 96px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/Batts.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/Batts.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Batts\" width=\"96\" height=\"97\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42655\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Administrator Deanna Santana sent out a memo this afternoon announcing that police chief Anthony Batts will \"resign his position effective early-to-mid November.\" The communication included a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/11/oakland-city-administrator-police-chief-anthony-batts-resigns/#memo\">memo from Batts to OPD staff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batts writes: \"In 2009, I answered the call for a reform-minded chief, a leader with a focus on community policing and high professional standards. I was told Oakland residents were looking for a strong, visible leader to engage the community and reduce violent crime. My goal was to help rebuild a once proud, professional department, geared toard crime reduction and community service. With this goal in mind, rather than a chief managing a diverse department of law enforcement professionals making the streets of Oakland safe, I found myself with limited control, but full accountability. The landscape has changed radically over the past two years and with new and different challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Oakland-Police-Chief-Anthony-Batts-Resigns-131545568.html\">\u003cstrong>video of Batts explaining his decision\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would appear to end a rather tortured relationship between Batts and the city. Early this year, the city was rocked by news that the chief had applied for the San Jose Police Chief job. But Batts did not get the position, losing out to San Jose's Acting Chief, Chris Moore. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late January, the Oakland Tribune reported: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> (Batts) hasn't applied anywhere else, he said, but he refused to commit to Oakland for the long haul unless he sees the city do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"This police department is underfunded and is in need of the very basics to get the job done,\" Batts said. He had not spoken up until now, he said, because \"the decisions were being made by my bosses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Asking to be quoted as Anthony Batts -- rather than as the chief of police -- Batts said the July layoffs of 80 officers were \"a horrendous decision,\" adding, \"The police department cannot be seen as a pariah, with no support, sitting out there by itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> ...As to his future, Batts said in a news release, \"I have not made a final decision as to my future with this agency. It still needs to be determined if I am a fit for the city of Oakland's vision for the future.\" In an interview, he added, \"I work my butt off. Unless there's support on all sides, there's no need for me to be here.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In early February, the OPD announced Batts was staying, quoting him as \"ready to roll up his sleeves and get back to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Batts \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/30/oaklands-batts-to-press-re-relationship-with-quan-where-are-you-getting-this-stuff/\">answered reports of a strained relationship with new Mayor Jean Quan\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, the goofiest thing, you guys keep reporting that we have issues or we're bickering. And I read that, because I mean...where the heck are you getting that from? ...My relationship is good with the mayor....But would you guys stop reporting this stuff? I don't know where you're picking it up from. Holy smokes!\" He also said, \"You guys keep talking about the San Jose thing that popped up. That was like two months ago..I'm not looking for another job. I have no anticipation of looking for another job. Oakland. Go Raiders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"memo\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Batts' resignation memo\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To The City Employees of the Oakland Police Department:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is with great regret that I tender this official notice of my intent to resign as Chief of Police for the City of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, I answered the call for a reform-minded chief; a leader with a focus on community policing and high professional standards. I was told Oakland residents were looking for a strong, visible leader to engage the community and reduce violent crime. My goal was to help rebuild a once proud, professional department, geared toard crime reduction and community service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this goal in mind, rather than a chief managing a diverse department of law enforcement professionals making the streets of Oakland safe, I found myself with limited control, but full accountability. The landscape has changed radically over the past two years and with new and different challenges. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has many diligent and hard-working employees. I have observed tremendous work ethic from professional staff and sworn staff alike. You have made me very proud to be a part of this team, and the OPD rich tradition and legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask that all of you continue to stand tall and proud during these very trying times. You are not thanked nor praised enough for what you produce with such little resources and equipment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, never forget the only reason we exist is to serve the community and residents of Oakland in the way that they wish for us to serve them. This may necessitate change on our part, to look forward and not to the past. Change is constant, and the best organizations continue to adapt and change. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincerely, \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony W. Batts\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief of Police\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the release from City Administrator Deanna Santana, in which she mentions the mid-November date:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I write to announce that Chief Anthony Batts has submitted his intent to resign his position effective early-to-mid November. While I am confident that chief Batts will take on new and prestigious opportunities, I regret that I will not be able to continue to work with him on our mutual goal of improved community policing and full compliance with the Negotiated Settlement Agreement (NSA). However, I feel comforted by the talent in the organization and the broad range of law enforcement expertise and commitment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Batts and I are in process of settling on a departure date and, in the interim, I will be exploring my options on how to proceed. Please join me in thanking Chief Batts for his service to the City of Oakland and tireless commitment to implementing the Civil Rights mandates of the NSA. I want to especially acknowledge the deep community relationships that Chief Batts has developed toward improving community relations and advancing community policing. These efforts demonstrate a true commitment to his goal to rebuild trust and focus on crime reduction and community service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today is about the accomplishment of Chief Batts, I will have additional announcements regarding leadership of the Oakland Police Dept at a later time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincerely, \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deanna J. Santana, \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Administratror\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42333\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/pot21.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-42333\" title=\"pot2\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/pot21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drug agent stands in a field of marijuana outside of Redding. 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Calif US Attorney comments on going after large growers and marijuana retail establishments near schools and parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Yesterday Andrew Becker and Michael Montgomery \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/06/landlords-property-owners-are-new-targets-in-anti-pot-strategy/\">previewed\u003c/a> the federal government's intention to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...smother California’s pot industry by targeting not only medical marijuana dispensaries and growers, but also those who do business with them. The latest possible targets: landlords and property owners who rent buildings or land where dispensaries sell or cultivators grow marijuana....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Panzer, an Oakland attorney who co-authored \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=proposition+215\">Proposition 215\u003c/a>, the 1996 ballot initiative that legalized medical marijuana in California, said the days are numbered for the current model for medical marijuana dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an effective strategy because they're basically saying to landlords, 'If you don't do this, then you lose your property, and we could also come after you criminally,' \" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Today, the four U.S. Attorneys for the state of California -- Benjamin B. Wagner of the Eastern District, André Birotte Jr. of the Central District, Laura E. Duffy of the Southern District, and Melinda Haag of the Northern District -- released a joint statement making it official. At a press conference in Sacramento, they delineated enforcement actions being taken, along with justifications for the harder line on marijuana dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the enforcement steps announced was \"letters of warning to the owners and lienholders of properties where illegal marijuana sales are taking place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"letter\">Michael Montgomery obtained one such \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/US-Attorney-marijuana-letter.pdf\">\u003cstrong>letter sent from Northern California U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag to the owner of property where a San Francisco marijuana dispensary is operating\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Here is the closing paragraph:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"letter\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/usattypot3.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42355\" title=\"usattypot\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/usattypot3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"156\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here is the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/US-Attorney-marijuana-letter.pdf\">full letter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pot-crackdown-20111007,0,313880.story?\">LA Times has talked to another letter recipient, the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Fairfax\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Landlords for some dispensaries have already received letters, including the owner of the building that houses the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana inFairfax, Calif., the oldest dispensary in the country. \"I assume the story you're calling about is: Obama takes resources away from fighting terrorists and goes after old ladies with glaucoma,\" said Greg Anton, a lawyer who represents the dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter to the Marin Alliance notes that the dispensary is within a prohibited distance of a park, raising the possibility that enforcement will zero in on stores within 1,000 feet of schools and playgrounds, a distance that can bring enhanced penalties for illegal drug sales. But letters received by dispensaries in San Diego make no mention of such prohibitions. \"We're trying to figure this out,\" said Jessica C. McElfresh, who represents some dispensaries in the city. \"I am surprised at the size of this. I am surprised by the vast amount of planning that has clearly gone into it.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/twitter/ci_19056051\">On the San Jose front\u003c/a>, from the Oakland Tribune this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Activists said they weren't aware of any notices received yet in the San Jose area. The San Jose City Council last month approved regulations allowing up to 10 marijuana collectives in a city now believed to have as many as 140, and requiring them to grow all their product on site rather than buying it wholesale from growers -- a requirement that some complained would invite federal drug raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana collectives complain the city's rules would effectively force all of them to close, and so they have launched a drive to collect the required 30,000 signatures of city voters needed to qualify a referendum to repeal the city laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich Robinson, a San Jose political consultant advising the city referendum drive, said the effort would continue unabated. He called the federal prosecutors' letters a \"scare tactic to get as many clubs to close down as possible\" and predicted it would fail because \"there's too many to enforce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose City Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio, who led the city effort to regulate and tax medical marijuana shops, suspected the move stemmed from President Obama's concerns his administration's previous tolerance for medical marijuana in states that allow it may hurt his re-election chances. His predecessor, George W. Bush, and other presidents have strongly opposed state efforts to legalize marijuana use even for the sick.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's audio of Melinda Haag, US Attorney for Northern California, speaking today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"audio\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/pothaag.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Full statement of Northern California U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag on new marijuana enforcement actions\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/pothaag.mp3|titles=pothaag]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript of Haag's statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>More than 40 years ago our elected federal representatives determined that various substances have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use in the United States. Based on these findings, Congress passed laws making it unlawful for people in this country to manufacture, cultivate or distribute various drugs, including heroine, MDA, LSD, and marijuana, among others. In sum, these substances are illegal under federal law. And US Attorneys in California and across the US have an obligation to uphold federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009, the Department of Justice has given the US Attorneys guidance with respect to marijuana prosecutions and how best to use our limited resources in the marijuana context. For example we will not likely use our limited resources towards individuals with cancer or other serious illnesses or their caregivers who use marijuana based on a doctor's recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Attorney General has already made clear, however, that the prosecution of significant traffickers including those involved in the commercial cultivation and distribution of marijuana remains a core priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">..the law has been hijacked by profiteers who are motivated not by compassion, but by money.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons we are making these announcements today is to try to put to rest the notion that large marijuana businesses can shelter themselves under state law and operate w/o fear of federal enforcement. Many in the marijuana industry have portrayed the Oct 2009 Dept of Justice guidance as giving a free pass to any marijuana business that invokes state law or calls its customers patients. That was frankly never correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dept Attorney General James Cole issued guidance on Jun 29 of this year clarifying that the dept is committed to enforcing the Controlled Substances Act in all states and that the 2009 memo was never intended to shield commercial marijuana operations or industrial -sized grows from enforcement actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the N. District of Calif. marijuana cultivators are converting our public lands and pristine forests into large-scale clandestine marijuana grow operat ions. They are cutting down trees and plants, they are diverting streams, polluting the water table, and the land with toxic pesticides. They are starting wildfires, bringing in undocumented workers from Mexico, some of whom may be the victims of human trafficking. Many of these workers who guard the grow operations do so with firearms, thereby endangering hikers who might unwittingly stumble in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In many communities like mine you can't walk a mile without seeing multiple retail marijuana stores, sometimes surrounded by fences and patrolled by security guards.\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>[And when the growers are through] they harvest their crops and leave behind literally tons of trash, unused pesticides, hundreds of miles of plastic piping, camping equipment and human waste…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents and visitors…are increasingly intimidated by the prospect of armed drug traffickers and illegal cultivation sites. sites. People sadly know not to go hiking in certain areas during the summer months because they're likely to encounter illegal grow operations.…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge ..is the proliferation of retail marijuana stores. I think it's safe to say there are more than a thousand of them in my district alone. The California Compassionate Use Act was intended to help seriously ill people. But the law has been hijacked by profiteers who are motivated not by compassion, but by money. Even under Calif law, marijuana cultivation is supposed to be not for profit. What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money. In short to engage in drug trafficking. And many of these drug trafficking operations are in plain site. In many communities like mine you can't walk a mile without seeing multiple retail marijuana stores, sometimes surrounded by fences and patrolled by security guards. If you sit and watch for a moment, you see cars pulling over, seemingly young healthy people jumping out of the cars, running into the store, and emerging with paper bags full of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these operations allow their customers to smoke marijuana while on the premises. Presumably at least some of them get back into their cars and drive away impaired. There's a reason for the security guards and fences; where there's marijuana there's money and lots of it. these places are prime targets for robberies and violence...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Because of limited resources] I have decided to focus initially on stores that sell marijuana and allow people to smoke marijuana very close to schools, parks and other places where children learn and play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week we sent letters to the landlords and lien holders of these stores, putting them on notice that marijuana is being sold and used on their property in close proximity to children and that the operations must cease. I understand that there are people in California who believe that marijuana stores should be allowed to exist. But I trust these same people would all agree we don't need marijuana retail outlets across the street from playgrounds and schools and little league fields.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from today's press release by the state's U.S. Attorneys:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif.October 7, 2011 – The four California-based United States Attorneys today announced coordinated enforcement actions targeting the illegal operations of the commercial marijuana industry in California. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statewide enforcement effort is aimed at curtailing the large, for-profit marijuana industry that has developed since the passage of California's Proposition 215 in 1996. That industry has swelled to include numerous drug-trafficking enterprises that operate commercial grow operations, intricate distribution systems and hundreds of marijuana stores across the state — even though the federal Controlled Substances Act makes illegal the sale and distribution of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the four United States Attorneys have tailored enforcement actions to the specific problems in their own districts, the statewide enforcement efforts fall into three main categories:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Civil forfeiture lawsuits against properties involved in drug trafficking activity, which includes, in some cases, marijuana sales in violation of local ordinances;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Letters of warning to the owners and lienholders of properties where illegal marijuana sales are taking place; and\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Criminal cases targeting commercial marijuana activities, including arrests over the past two weeks in cases filed in federal courts in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enforcement actions being announced today are the result of the four United States Attorneys working with federal law enforcement partners and local officials across California to combat commercial marijuana activities that are having the most significant impacts in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The actions taken today in California by our U.S. Attorneys and their law enforcement partners are consistent with the Department's commitment to enforcing existing federal laws, including the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), in all states,\" said Deputy Attorney General James Cole. \"The department has maintained that we will not focus our investigative and prosecutorial resources on individual patients with serious illnesses like cancer or their immediate caregivers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here is the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/US-Attorney-marijuana-letter.pdf\">full letter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pot-crackdown-20111007,0,313880.story?\">LA Times has talked to another letter recipient, the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Fairfax\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Landlords for some dispensaries have already received letters, including the owner of the building that houses the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana inFairfax, Calif., the oldest dispensary in the country. \"I assume the story you're calling about is: Obama takes resources away from fighting terrorists and goes after old ladies with glaucoma,\" said Greg Anton, a lawyer who represents the dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter to the Marin Alliance notes that the dispensary is within a prohibited distance of a park, raising the possibility that enforcement will zero in on stores within 1,000 feet of schools and playgrounds, a distance that can bring enhanced penalties for illegal drug sales. But letters received by dispensaries in San Diego make no mention of such prohibitions. \"We're trying to figure this out,\" said Jessica C. McElfresh, who represents some dispensaries in the city. \"I am surprised at the size of this. I am surprised by the vast amount of planning that has clearly gone into it.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/twitter/ci_19056051\">On the San Jose front\u003c/a>, from the Oakland Tribune this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Activists said they weren't aware of any notices received yet in the San Jose area. The San Jose City Council last month approved regulations allowing up to 10 marijuana collectives in a city now believed to have as many as 140, and requiring them to grow all their product on site rather than buying it wholesale from growers -- a requirement that some complained would invite federal drug raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana collectives complain the city's rules would effectively force all of them to close, and so they have launched a drive to collect the required 30,000 signatures of city voters needed to qualify a referendum to repeal the city laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich Robinson, a San Jose political consultant advising the city referendum drive, said the effort would continue unabated. He called the federal prosecutors' letters a \"scare tactic to get as many clubs to close down as possible\" and predicted it would fail because \"there's too many to enforce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose City Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio, who led the city effort to regulate and tax medical marijuana shops, suspected the move stemmed from President Obama's concerns his administration's previous tolerance for medical marijuana in states that allow it may hurt his re-election chances. His predecessor, George W. Bush, and other presidents have strongly opposed state efforts to legalize marijuana use even for the sick.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's audio of Melinda Haag, US Attorney for Northern California, speaking today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"audio\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/pothaag.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Full statement of Northern California U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag on new marijuana enforcement actions\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript of Haag's statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>More than 40 years ago our elected federal representatives determined that various substances have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use in the United States. Based on these findings, Congress passed laws making it unlawful for people in this country to manufacture, cultivate or distribute various drugs, including heroine, MDA, LSD, and marijuana, among others. In sum, these substances are illegal under federal law. And US Attorneys in California and across the US have an obligation to uphold federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009, the Department of Justice has given the US Attorneys guidance with respect to marijuana prosecutions and how best to use our limited resources in the marijuana context. For example we will not likely use our limited resources towards individuals with cancer or other serious illnesses or their caregivers who use marijuana based on a doctor's recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Attorney General has already made clear, however, that the prosecution of significant traffickers including those involved in the commercial cultivation and distribution of marijuana remains a core priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">..the law has been hijacked by profiteers who are motivated not by compassion, but by money.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons we are making these announcements today is to try to put to rest the notion that large marijuana businesses can shelter themselves under state law and operate w/o fear of federal enforcement. Many in the marijuana industry have portrayed the Oct 2009 Dept of Justice guidance as giving a free pass to any marijuana business that invokes state law or calls its customers patients. That was frankly never correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dept Attorney General James Cole issued guidance on Jun 29 of this year clarifying that the dept is committed to enforcing the Controlled Substances Act in all states and that the 2009 memo was never intended to shield commercial marijuana operations or industrial -sized grows from enforcement actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the N. District of Calif. marijuana cultivators are converting our public lands and pristine forests into large-scale clandestine marijuana grow operat ions. They are cutting down trees and plants, they are diverting streams, polluting the water table, and the land with toxic pesticides. They are starting wildfires, bringing in undocumented workers from Mexico, some of whom may be the victims of human trafficking. Many of these workers who guard the grow operations do so with firearms, thereby endangering hikers who might unwittingly stumble in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In many communities like mine you can't walk a mile without seeing multiple retail marijuana stores, sometimes surrounded by fences and patrolled by security guards.\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>[And when the growers are through] they harvest their crops and leave behind literally tons of trash, unused pesticides, hundreds of miles of plastic piping, camping equipment and human waste…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents and visitors…are increasingly intimidated by the prospect of armed drug traffickers and illegal cultivation sites. sites. People sadly know not to go hiking in certain areas during the summer months because they're likely to encounter illegal grow operations.…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge ..is the proliferation of retail marijuana stores. I think it's safe to say there are more than a thousand of them in my district alone. The California Compassionate Use Act was intended to help seriously ill people. But the law has been hijacked by profiteers who are motivated not by compassion, but by money. Even under Calif law, marijuana cultivation is supposed to be not for profit. What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money. In short to engage in drug trafficking. And many of these drug trafficking operations are in plain site. In many communities like mine you can't walk a mile without seeing multiple retail marijuana stores, sometimes surrounded by fences and patrolled by security guards. If you sit and watch for a moment, you see cars pulling over, seemingly young healthy people jumping out of the cars, running into the store, and emerging with paper bags full of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these operations allow their customers to smoke marijuana while on the premises. Presumably at least some of them get back into their cars and drive away impaired. There's a reason for the security guards and fences; where there's marijuana there's money and lots of it. these places are prime targets for robberies and violence...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Because of limited resources] I have decided to focus initially on stores that sell marijuana and allow people to smoke marijuana very close to schools, parks and other places where children learn and play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week we sent letters to the landlords and lien holders of these stores, putting them on notice that marijuana is being sold and used on their property in close proximity to children and that the operations must cease. I understand that there are people in California who believe that marijuana stores should be allowed to exist. But I trust these same people would all agree we don't need marijuana retail outlets across the street from playgrounds and schools and little league fields.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(AP) — A close friend of the employee accused in a deadly California quarry shooting says the suspect showed off an assault rifle over the weekend and said he would use it at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old Brandon Powell tells The Associated Press that Shareef Allman visited him Saturday at his Sacramento home and showed him a newly purchased AK-47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Powell asked what the gun was for, Allman said there were racist people at work who were “messing” with him, then laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powell says he thought Allman was joking. Many of Allman’s friends have described him as a devoted father and community volunteer never known to be violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say Allman fatally shot three co-workers and wounded six others Wednesday during a work meeting in Cupertino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They haven’t discussed a specific motive, other than to say the suspect was disgruntled.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 3:30 p.m.\u003c/em> The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19053900\">Merc\u003c/a> is reporting the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Valeri Allman obtained a restraining order against Shareef Allman 20 years ago. She alleged her husband had assaulted her on several occasions during their marriage, which lasted about three years. On one occasion, she said he hit her in the head with a lamp, knocking her out. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 12:45 p.m.\u003c/em> Chilling article from the Merc today in which \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19053310?source=pkg\">one of Allman’s shooting victims at the quarry recounts the attack\u003c/a>. Mike Ambrosio, who says he played dead during the rampage after being shot in the arm, paints a portrait of Allman as a disgruntled, poor performer on the job: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“He thought everybody was after him,” Ambrosio said in an exclusive interview Wednesday afternoon with the Mercury News. “He wasn’t thinking no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambrosio, a union leader and truck driver who has worked for 16 years at Lehigh Hanson’s Permanente Cement Plant in Cupertino, recounted the five- to eight-minute predawn rampage that left three of his co-workers dead, including a cousin whom he had helped get the job, and five injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys want to (expletive) with me? You want to (expletive) with me?” Ambrosio recalled Allman angrily saying as he shot his co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone was jumping under the table. Some sitting at the table were shot in the stomach,” Ambrosio recalled….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lying under the table, Ambrosio covered his face with his bleeding arm and pretended he was dead. When the gunfire stopped, Allman stooped to look under the table “to make sure I was dead,” Ambrosio said….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allman had worked at the plant for 15 years. While he was respected by his wide circle of friends in San Jose’s African-American community, he had a poor performance record at the company, Ambrosio said. Allman felt as though the company, and some of his co-workers, were out to get him, Ambrosio said. Two weeks earlier, Allman had refused to pose for a photo with his colleagues at the plant, saying, “I don’t want to take my picture with back stabbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the shooting began Wednesday, a supervisor was leading the weekly meeting, which included a discussion about rescheduling a farewell party for another employee. Allman piped up, Ambrosio said: “If we ain’t gonna have no party, give me my $10 back.” Then Allman “pulled out the gun and started.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Ambrosio, who is the union shop steward, also says that he told Allman less than a week ago that that he was going to stop representing him to management because of numerous safety violations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19053310?source=pkg\">Read the full article here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 12:06 p.m.\u003c/em> From KNTV, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/#!/news/local/Raw-Video:-Shareef-Allman's-Friend-Speaks-Out/131179523\">video interview with a man who says he’s known Shareef Allman for decades\u003c/a> and loves him “like he’s my brother.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shareef’s a lovable guy. If you ever came in contact with him, you’d say look at that guy, he’s a happy man.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 11:58 a.m.\u003c/em> Information from the press conference by Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Deputies had saturated the area with both marked and unmarked vehicles. But it was actually deputies on routine patrol who saw a subject matching description.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Subject was crouched behind a vehicle, in the driveway of a residence, a few blocks away from where he attempted carjacking at HP, about 5 miles away from the quarry where original shootings took place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Deputies attempted to make contact. He was armed with handgun, which he “did display in a threatening manner.” All three deputies fired shots. The subject was pronounced dead at the scene. 2 male, one female deputy, with various levels of experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Officers were all in vehicles, one marked, one unmarked, 2 in one, 1 in the other. They had been patrolling and were talking with each other. One of the deputies saw movement and that’s when they acted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Firearm recovered\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-“Right now we believe it is the subject. Coroners’ office will have to make a positive ID.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Sunnyvale Dept of Public Safety is now handling entire investigation and will provide additional info as becomes available. Sheriff’s deputies are being interviewed by Sunnyvale detectives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-A video exists of the suspect leaving a gas station where he dumped his car\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Local law enforcement worked throughout night with a U.S. Marshall team on fugitive apprehension\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8381755#&cmp=twi-kgo-video-8381755\">Video of the full press conference\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 11:23 a.m.\u003c/em> Looks they’re getting set up for the \u003cstrong>Santa Clara County Sheriff’s press conference\u003c/strong>. \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8367648#&cmp=twi-kgo-video-8367648\">Watch a live video feed\u003c/a> at KGO. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 10:25 a.m.\u003c/em> From the Merc: “Sheriff Laurie Smith has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference at the sheriff’s headquarters in San Jose, which had been the command center for the manhunt.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> Update 9:40 a.m.\u003c/em> From the Merc: \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/crime-courts/ci_19049296\">Profiles of the shooting victims\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 9:25 a.m.\u003c/em> KGO is reporting that law enforcement personnel have told them that the suspect was indeed Shareef Allman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 9:16 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8367648#&cmp=twi-kgo-video-8367648\">Live news conference\u003c/a> by John Pilger, Sunnyvale Public Information Officer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Physical description of man shot and killed is very similar to Allman, but no official ID yet.\u003cbr>\n-No reports of offices injured\u003cbr>\n-Investigation still going on\u003cbr>\n-Neighborhood re-opened\u003cbr>\n-Santa Clara Sheriff’s deputies were involved in the shooting\u003cbr>\n-Sunnyvale Police have taken over\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:49 a.m.\u003c/em> The Merc now says it has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19053900\">confirmed Allman has been killed\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Law enforcement sources have confirmed triple homicide suspect Shareef Allman has been shot and killed in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputies were involved in the shooting that happened at about 7:20 a.m. in Sunnyvale, according to Lt. Rick Sung. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Also from today’s Merc: \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19053310?source=pkg\">Cupertino cement plant shooting victim recalls bloody morning\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:47 a.m.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various media reports on Allman’s status:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>KCBS Radio: Shot and killed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mercury News: “Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jose Cardoza confirmed that Allman was shot this morning after being located at a house in Sunnyvale but did not say if the suspect was still alive. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KTVU TV: Shot and killed \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KRON TV: In custody\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> KCBS Radio says they have confirmed Allman has been shot and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:40 a.m.\u003c/em> KRON continues to report that he’s in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:39 a.m.\u003c/em> KGO has a \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8367648#&cmp=twi-kgo-video-8367648\">live video feed\u003c/a> from the scene in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:35 a.m.\u003c/em> You can also \u003ca href=\"http://player.radio.com/player/RadioPlayer.php?version=1.2.12495&station=97\">listen for live updates at KCBS Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:31 a.m.\u003c/em> KTVU is reporting that Allman has been shot and killed. 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Which would mean he has not been killed, as some reports had indicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:20 a.m.\u003c/em> Here’s a Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=206293992991520354953.0004ae8dba51e395a11f0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=6&ll=37.331949,-122.044029&spn=0.081896,0.102654&z=12&source=embed\">map\u003c/a> from of the area being searched, with locations relating to the incident highlighted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=206293992991520354953.0004ae8dba51e395a11f0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=0&source=embed&z=12&output=embed\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>View \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=206293992991520354953.0004ae8dba51e395a11f0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=0&source=embed&z=12\">South Bay shooting, Oct. 5\u003c/a> in a larger map\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:15 a.m.\u003c/em> From the Mercury News: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>Shareef Allman, the man suspected of killing three people and wounding seven others during a workplace shooting, has been shot and killed this morning, according to a report by NBC-11. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jose Cardoza confirmed that Allman was shot this morning after being located in a house in Sunnyvale but did not say if the suspect was still alive. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:12 a.m.\u003c/em> From \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/2-Dead-6-Injured-in-Workplace-Shooting-131132928.html\">KNTV\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>According to early reports, shortly after resuming the manhunt this morning, Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies report that multiple shots have been fired at the suspect, with the suspect killed near the 900 block of Lorne Way in the city of Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An “officer assist” call was reported at 7:41 a.m. this morning, according to an emailed report from authorities.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:03 a.m.\u003c/em> KRON TV is reporting that a law enforcement spokesperson is hinting at an arrest in the same Sunnvale neighborhood, near Homestead and Wolf, in which police have been searching for Shareef Allman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>7:52 a.m.\u003c/em> From the San Jose Mercury News:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/sunnyvale/ci_19053663\">Report of shots fired in area of search for Cupertino shooting suspect\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police are scrambling to the area of the manhunt for the Cupertino three-homicide suspect after there were reports of shots being fired at around 7:35 a.m.:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police from several agencies had been focusing the search today in a neighborhood near Homestead Road, where shooting suspect Shareef Allman was last seen Wednesday morning after allegedly attempting to carjack a woman in a Hewlett-Packard parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allman, a 47-year-old heavy equipment operator at Lehigh Hanson’s Permanente Cement Plant, had been in a safety meeting with more than a dozen co-workers when, police say, he pulled a gun from his waistband and began shooting. 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He was crouched behind a vehicle in the driveway of a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputies opened fire after the man “displayed in a threatening manner his firearm,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators believe the man is Allman, but the coroner will have to confirm the identity, she said. \u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/sheriff-man-believed-ca-quarry-shooter-dead-190512534.html\">Read full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 3:35 p.m.\u003c/em> From AP: \u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/friend-says-calif-quarry-suspect-showed-off-ak-212912592.html\">Friend says Calif quarry suspect showed off AK-47\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SUNNYVALE, Calif. 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On one occasion, she said he hit her in the head with a lamp, knocking her out. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 12:45 p.m.\u003c/em> Chilling article from the Merc today in which \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19053310?source=pkg\">one of Allman’s shooting victims at the quarry recounts the attack\u003c/a>. Mike Ambrosio, who says he played dead during the rampage after being shot in the arm, paints a portrait of Allman as a disgruntled, poor performer on the job: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“He thought everybody was after him,” Ambrosio said in an exclusive interview Wednesday afternoon with the Mercury News. “He wasn’t thinking no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambrosio, a union leader and truck driver who has worked for 16 years at Lehigh Hanson’s Permanente Cement Plant in Cupertino, recounted the five- to eight-minute predawn rampage that left three of his co-workers dead, including a cousin whom he had helped get the job, and five injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys want to (expletive) with me? You want to (expletive) with me?” Ambrosio recalled Allman angrily saying as he shot his co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone was jumping under the table. Some sitting at the table were shot in the stomach,” Ambrosio recalled….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lying under the table, Ambrosio covered his face with his bleeding arm and pretended he was dead. When the gunfire stopped, Allman stooped to look under the table “to make sure I was dead,” Ambrosio said….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allman had worked at the plant for 15 years. While he was respected by his wide circle of friends in San Jose’s African-American community, he had a poor performance record at the company, Ambrosio said. Allman felt as though the company, and some of his co-workers, were out to get him, Ambrosio said. Two weeks earlier, Allman had refused to pose for a photo with his colleagues at the plant, saying, “I don’t want to take my picture with back stabbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the shooting began Wednesday, a supervisor was leading the weekly meeting, which included a discussion about rescheduling a farewell party for another employee. 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But it was actually deputies on routine patrol who saw a subject matching description.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Subject was crouched behind a vehicle, in the driveway of a residence, a few blocks away from where he attempted carjacking at HP, about 5 miles away from the quarry where original shootings took place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Deputies attempted to make contact. He was armed with handgun, which he “did display in a threatening manner.” All three deputies fired shots. The subject was pronounced dead at the scene. 2 male, one female deputy, with various levels of experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Officers were all in vehicles, one marked, one unmarked, 2 in one, 1 in the other. They had been patrolling and were talking with each other. One of the deputies saw movement and that’s when they acted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Firearm recovered\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-“Right now we believe it is the subject. Coroners’ office will have to make a positive ID.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Sunnyvale Dept of Public Safety is now handling entire investigation and will provide additional info as becomes available. Sheriff’s deputies are being interviewed by Sunnyvale detectives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-A video exists of the suspect leaving a gas station where he dumped his car\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Local law enforcement worked throughout night with a U.S. Marshall team on fugitive apprehension\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8381755#&cmp=twi-kgo-video-8381755\">Video of the full press conference\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 11:23 a.m.\u003c/em> Looks they’re getting set up for the \u003cstrong>Santa Clara County Sheriff’s press conference\u003c/strong>. \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8367648#&cmp=twi-kgo-video-8367648\">Watch a live video feed\u003c/a> at KGO. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 10:25 a.m.\u003c/em> From the Merc: “Sheriff Laurie Smith has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference at the sheriff’s headquarters in San Jose, which had been the command center for the manhunt.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> Update 9:40 a.m.\u003c/em> From the Merc: \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/crime-courts/ci_19049296\">Profiles of the shooting victims\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 9:25 a.m.\u003c/em> KGO is reporting that law enforcement personnel have told them that the suspect was indeed Shareef Allman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 9:16 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8367648#&cmp=twi-kgo-video-8367648\">Live news conference\u003c/a> by John Pilger, Sunnyvale Public Information Officer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Physical description of man shot and killed is very similar to Allman, but no official ID yet.\u003cbr>\n-No reports of offices injured\u003cbr>\n-Investigation still going on\u003cbr>\n-Neighborhood re-opened\u003cbr>\n-Santa Clara Sheriff’s deputies were involved in the shooting\u003cbr>\n-Sunnyvale Police have taken over\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:49 a.m.\u003c/em> The Merc now says it has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19053900\">confirmed Allman has been killed\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Law enforcement sources have confirmed triple homicide suspect Shareef Allman has been shot and killed in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputies were involved in the shooting that happened at about 7:20 a.m. in Sunnyvale, according to Lt. Rick Sung. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Also from today’s Merc: \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19053310?source=pkg\">Cupertino cement plant shooting victim recalls bloody morning\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:47 a.m.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various media reports on Allman’s status:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>KCBS Radio: Shot and killed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mercury News: “Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jose Cardoza confirmed that Allman was shot this morning after being located at a house in Sunnyvale but did not say if the suspect was still alive. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KTVU TV: Shot and killed \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KRON TV: In custody\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> KCBS Radio says they have confirmed Allman has been shot and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:40 a.m.\u003c/em> KRON continues to report that he’s in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:39 a.m.\u003c/em> KGO has a \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8367648#&cmp=twi-kgo-video-8367648\">live video feed\u003c/a> from the scene in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:35 a.m.\u003c/em> You can also \u003ca href=\"http://player.radio.com/player/RadioPlayer.php?version=1.2.12495&station=97\">listen for live updates at KCBS Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:31 a.m.\u003c/em> KTVU is reporting that Allman has been shot and killed. If you look at this \u003ca href=\"http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=225\">log of Sunnyvale police communications from RadioReference.com\u003c/a>, you’ll find this: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>OFFICER ASSIST\u003cbr>\n10/06/11 07:46\t(SUNNYVALE – 155.7000) UPDATE: DEPUTIES ON SCENE CONFIRM SUSPECT IS DOWN AND DEAD ON ARRIVAL/DECEASED [SFO013]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:25 a.m.\u003c/em> From RadioReference.com: You can listen to \u003ca href=\"http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=4915\">Santa Clara County Fire, San Jose Fire, and CAL FIRE\u003c/a> channels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:22 a.m.\u003c/em> KRON TV is reporting that Allman has been arrested, as recently as 30 minutes ago. Which would mean he has not been killed, as some reports had indicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:20 a.m.\u003c/em> Here’s a Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=206293992991520354953.0004ae8dba51e395a11f0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=6&ll=37.331949,-122.044029&spn=0.081896,0.102654&z=12&source=embed\">map\u003c/a> from of the area being searched, with locations relating to the incident highlighted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=206293992991520354953.0004ae8dba51e395a11f0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=0&source=embed&z=12&output=embed\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>View \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=206293992991520354953.0004ae8dba51e395a11f0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=0&source=embed&z=12\">South Bay shooting, Oct. 5\u003c/a> in a larger map\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:15 a.m.\u003c/em> From the Mercury News: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>Shareef Allman, the man suspected of killing three people and wounding seven others during a workplace shooting, has been shot and killed this morning, according to a report by NBC-11. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jose Cardoza confirmed that Allman was shot this morning after being located in a house in Sunnyvale but did not say if the suspect was still alive. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:12 a.m.\u003c/em> From \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/2-Dead-6-Injured-in-Workplace-Shooting-131132928.html\">KNTV\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>According to early reports, shortly after resuming the manhunt this morning, Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies report that multiple shots have been fired at the suspect, with the suspect killed near the 900 block of Lorne Way in the city of Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An “officer assist” call was reported at 7:41 a.m. this morning, according to an emailed report from authorities.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:03 a.m.\u003c/em> KRON TV is reporting that a law enforcement spokesperson is hinting at an arrest in the same Sunnvale neighborhood, near Homestead and Wolf, in which police have been searching for Shareef Allman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>7:52 a.m.\u003c/em> From the San Jose Mercury News:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/sunnyvale/ci_19053663\">Report of shots fired in area of search for Cupertino shooting suspect\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police are scrambling to the area of the manhunt for the Cupertino three-homicide suspect after there were reports of shots being fired at around 7:35 a.m.:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police from several agencies had been focusing the search today in a neighborhood near Homestead Road, where shooting suspect Shareef Allman was last seen Wednesday morning after allegedly attempting to carjack a woman in a Hewlett-Packard parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allman, a 47-year-old heavy equipment operator at Lehigh Hanson’s Permanente Cement Plant, had been in a safety meeting with more than a dozen co-workers when, police say, he pulled a gun from his waistband and began shooting. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41922\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/shareefallmanSM.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41922\" title=\"shareefallmanSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/shareefallmanSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"261\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shareef Allman. 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(AP) — The search for a disgruntled employee accused of killing three co-workers and injuring six others at a Northern California limestone quarry brought SWAT teams in armored vehicles to the normally quiet streets of Silicon Valley on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunt for Shareef Allman of San Jose began after authorities said he opened fire at a routine safety meeting at Permanente Quarry around 4:15 a.m. and later wounded a woman in a failed carjacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools were closed or on lockdown in Cupertino, home of Apple Inc., and in neighboring communities as authorities went door to door with guns drawn and residents were warned to stay indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, friends and neighbors expressed disbelief and sadness at the possibility that the man they knew as an outgoing, engaged member of the community could have committed such horrific acts of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allman became upset and left the meeting then returned with a handgun and rifle and started shooting people, Santa Clara County sheriff’s Lt. Rick Sung said. About 15 workers were at the meeting during the shooting, which authorities said lasted about two minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Laurie Smith released the names of the dead Wednesday evening as Manuel Pinon, 48, of Newman, Calif., and John Vallejos, 51 and Mark Munoz, 59, both of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still believe the suspect is armed and dangerous,” Smith said. “How dangerous is he? He murdered three people today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six others at the quarry were wounded and taken to hospitals, where some remained in critical condition, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of the victims have not been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relatives of victims and other employees rushed to the quarry to check on their loved ones. One woman, who asked to remain anonymous because the gunman was still at large, said her father worked at the quarry for about 10 years and was the lead employee on the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he called his family around 4:30 a.m. to say something was happening and not to pick him up. He called again just after 6 a.m. to say he was OK but was hiding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called a third time to say he was coming out of hiding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the day, authorities located Allman’s vehicle and seized a shotgun, a handgun and two rifles believed to belong to the suspect, Smith said, adding that some of the weapons were found in the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenges are the big geographical area,” she said of the manhunt. “The challenges are that he’s armed.” \u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-large-deadly-calif-quarry-shooting-175143311.html\">Full article here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:16 p.m\u003c/em>. From the Bay Citizen: \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/business/story/factory-gunman-history-safety-violations/\">Factory Where Alleged Gunman Worked Has Long History of Safety Violations\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier updates, from Shuka Kalantari\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 4:30pm\u003c/em> from \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#%21/abc7newsBayArea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">twitter.com/abc7newsBayArea\u003c/a>: #CUPERTINO UPDATE: Sunnyvale residents who couldn’t get to their homes due to the search are being allowed to return if they show ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Mercury News is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19044864\">live-blogging the story\u003c/a>, providing frequent updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can follow how the story developed throughout the day by reading the entries below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier updates\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>From KCBS: “Laurelwood Elementary School in Santa Clara is sending students away from school as authorities search for a gunman suspected in two deaths.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Also from KCBS: “Authorities say they suspect Shareef Allman, 45, in several shootings in Cupertino this morning. He may be holed up in a house near HP.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SWAT teams are outside the HP facility, at Homestead and Tantau.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A fellow employee tells KRON that he was acting strangely yesterday and was unusually withdrawn.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19044864\">Merc is live-blogging\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shareef William Allman, the suspect, has a relatively minor record mostly consisting of driving with a supspended license dating back to the 1990s. His last conviction was in 1994. His most serious conviction was a 1992 misdemeanor charge for forgery for which he served a small amount of jail time.He sometimes goes by Frank Allman.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KRON TV interviewed a spokespeson for Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. She said the hospital has received two patients from the first shooting, at the quarry. One has been released, the other is in fair condition. The hospital has also received the woman injured int he attempted carjacking. She is also in fair condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>From KRON TV: Co-workers say Shareef Allman is usually very outgoing and demonstrative, that he would frequently wave to colleagues with a big smile, but that recently he became noticeably sullen.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lisa Ignacio of the superintendent’s office of the Sunnyvale School District says schools are NOT under lockdown. They are monitoring the situation. The district has K-8 schools. The students will get out today around 2:20-2:30pm.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19044864\">\u003cstrong>Merc’s live blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shareef Allman’s 1999 Mercury 2-door hatchback was found in the middle of the Pho Little Saigon restaurant, 555 Homestead Road, near the perimeter where police are conducting the search.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>and…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Suspect Shareef Allman lives at Stonegate Apartments on Renaissance Drive in San Jose. Police are keeping reporters away from the apartment complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulette Conner said she saw police as they approached Allman’s daughter earlier this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s my dad,” Conner overheard the daughter tell officers. She looked scared and terrified, Conner said. Officers took her into an apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors describe Allman as really likeable. A sharp-dressed guy who works out a lot. A single parent who goes to church. All were shocked to hear he is a suspect in a mass shooting. He is very popular with his neighbors. Neighbors said they never saw him do anything violent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler talked to a woman name Carmen Rodriguez who says she is the sister-in-law of one of the people shot dead at the quarry. She said his name is Mark Munoz, a grandfather in his late 50s or early 60s, and that he was looking forward to retirement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AP \u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-large-deadly-calif-quarry-shooting-175143311.html\">reports\u003c/a> police are going door-to-door in their search for Allman.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?page=26&recordid=550&returnURL=%2findex.aspx\">City of Cupertino web site\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>All classes are cancelled at Cupertino Community Center. Quinlan Community center has also cancelled all the preschool classes at Quinlan Community Center and Monta Vista Recreation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cupertino Senior Center and Cupertino Sports Center are open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cupertino Union Schools District (elementary and middle) schools are open and students are kept under shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cupertino High School is in lockdown and students are being asked to shelter in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monta Vista High School is closed and students are asked to stay at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homestead High School is closed and students are asked to stay at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont and Lynbrook High Schools are open.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/twitter/ci_19046188?source=rss&cid=dlvr.it\">Photos\u003c/a> from the Merc.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca name=\"interview\">KQED’s Stephanie Martin interviewed an HP employee who says he was an eyewitness to the attempted carjacking in the company’s parking lot. An edited transcript is below the audio.\u003c/a>\u003ca name=\"interview\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/hpeyewitness.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: HP employee Enrico Balanuuit describes the attempted carjacking of a fellow employee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/hpeyewitness.mp3|titles=hpeyewitness]\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrico Balanuuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I parked, and it just so happened my coworker had also parked at the same time. We got there around 6:55, and a couple of feet away, there’s an African American guy, around 6 feet, 200 pounds, he asked me, “hey what time do I need to submit the application?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Application for what?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Warehousing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was kind of skeptical, why is he asking? It’s around 6:55 in the morning. Then I said, well, go to the front lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What time do they open?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“8 o’clock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ok.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I proceeded to go upstairs, I thought he was going to go to the lobby, but he went to a different area in the parking lot. I went to the 2nd floor, and I noticed I brought my gym bag with me instead of my laptop bag. So I went downstairs to switch my bags, and I saw the guy, and he was trying to talk to my coworker, she’s like 50 yards away from where my car was parked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can see from the window, I’m on the driver’s side, back seat. I noticed he chased her. I think he was trying to get something. He grabbed her and then he punched her. Then after he punched her, I tried to hide, was trying to get in the car and go help Terumi, but then when I was hiding, I heard two shots. Pow pow. I tried to hide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I saw he punched her, I had started dialing 911. 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Her eyeglasses flew and then, I don’t know if she was still carrying her laptop because we always carry our laptops. There was a bullet hole in the jacket, it was on the lower right side of her body.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"sheriff\"> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca name=\"sheriff\">Here’s the latest information from a briefing given by Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith at around 12:15 p.m.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>-One of the victims has died at the hospital. The new casualty total is three dead, seven wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Four weapons have been recovered, but Allman, still at large, is considered armed and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Smith called Allman a “disgruntled employee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Law enforcement entities on the scene include the San Jose Police Dept., Sunnvale Police Department, Campbell Police Department, FBI, US Marshall’s office, and Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-If anyone sees anything suspicious in the area, call 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-For family members of the victims, the hotline is 408 777 3200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-If you have any information related to the event, call 408 808 4500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-The suspect has weapons registered to him, but it’s unclear if they are the same ones used in the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-All the employees at the original shooting incident, at the quarry, were men.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"sheriff\">\u003cem>Update 2:50 p.m.\u003c/em> Here’s \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8380341\">raw video\u003c/a> of the sheriff’s press conference, from KGO:\n\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19044864\">Merc interviewed two people who knew Allman\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Johnnie Gray, founder of the East Palo Boxing Club has known Allman for the past 10 years. He said both Allman and his daughter had been involved with boxing and martial arts for many years in East Palo Alto and San Jose. Gray described him as “always a mild-mannered-type guy.”\u003cbr>\n———————————————————————————————————-\u003cbr>\nJames Ragland, a janitorial supervisor at Valley Medical, is good friends with Shareef Allman. “It’s not him. Something happened between the job and whatever else personally was going on in his life, a breakdown maybe.” I saw him a couple months ago down at the San Jose Jazz Festival. He’s also a Christian man, and we spoke. I asked how his comedian project was going. That was his lifelong dream to be a comedian. He was pretty funny. There were no signs, no warning no nothing. He was smiling. He was always jolly. Overall he was a really good person a really committed father. He was a single parent so we had a lot in common. 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In saying I am pleading and praying he will surrender and let the Lord be his attorney and guide in this terrible situation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"youtube\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Allman’s YouTube videos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 10:30 a.m. \u003c/em> On YouTube, there is a 2009 \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qd4giHcYM7Q\">video of an interview from a local cable TV station in San Jose with a man named Shareef Allman\u003c/a> who looks like the suspect. At around 5:57 into the interview, the interviewer mentions that the man has a day job as a “miner.” The man says, “Yes I’m a miner…I drive heavy equipment, I’ve been doing that for 13 years now. I’m above ground mining, not underground mining.” (\u003cem>update 11 a.m.\u003c/em>: These videos have been removed. 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He may be holed up in a house near HP.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SWAT teams are outside the HP facility, at Homestead and Tantau.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A fellow employee tells KRON that he was acting strangely yesterday and was unusually withdrawn.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19044864\">Merc is live-blogging\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shareef William Allman, the suspect, has a relatively minor record mostly consisting of driving with a supspended license dating back to the 1990s. His last conviction was in 1994. His most serious conviction was a 1992 misdemeanor charge for forgery for which he served a small amount of jail time.He sometimes goes by Frank Allman.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KRON TV interviewed a spokespeson for Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. She said the hospital has received two patients from the first shooting, at the quarry. One has been released, the other is in fair condition. The hospital has also received the woman injured int he attempted carjacking. She is also in fair condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>From KRON TV: Co-workers say Shareef Allman is usually very outgoing and demonstrative, that he would frequently wave to colleagues with a big smile, but that recently he became noticeably sullen.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lisa Ignacio of the superintendent’s office of the Sunnyvale School District says schools are NOT under lockdown. They are monitoring the situation. The district has K-8 schools. 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A sharp-dressed guy who works out a lot. A single parent who goes to church. All were shocked to hear he is a suspect in a mass shooting. He is very popular with his neighbors. Neighbors said they never saw him do anything violent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler talked to a woman name Carmen Rodriguez who says she is the sister-in-law of one of the people shot dead at the quarry. She said his name is Mark Munoz, a grandfather in his late 50s or early 60s, and that he was looking forward to retirement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AP \u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-large-deadly-calif-quarry-shooting-175143311.html\">reports\u003c/a> police are going door-to-door in their search for Allman.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?page=26&recordid=550&returnURL=%2findex.aspx\">City of Cupertino web site\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>All classes are cancelled at Cupertino Community Center. 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The new casualty total is three dead, seven wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Four weapons have been recovered, but Allman, still at large, is considered armed and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Smith called Allman a “disgruntled employee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Law enforcement entities on the scene include the San Jose Police Dept., Sunnvale Police Department, Campbell Police Department, FBI, US Marshall’s office, and Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-If anyone sees anything suspicious in the area, call 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-For family members of the victims, the hotline is 408 777 3200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-If you have any information related to the event, call 408 808 4500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-The suspect has weapons registered to him, but it’s unclear if they are the same ones used in the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-All the employees at the original shooting incident, at the quarry, were men.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"sheriff\">\u003cem>Update 2:50 p.m.\u003c/em> Here’s \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8380341\">raw video\u003c/a> of the sheriff’s press conference, from KGO:\n\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19044864\">Merc interviewed two people who knew Allman\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Johnnie Gray, founder of the East Palo Boxing Club has known Allman for the past 10 years. 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