On January 16 at approximately 3:10 am Antioch Police Dispatch received multiple reports of the sound of gunshots in the area of Badger Pass Way.
One caller advised of a van driving away from a house at a high rate of speed. Officers located the van driving away from the location and a traffic stop was conducted. The officers noticed numerous bullet holes in the van and the passenger was bleeding from an apparent injury to his head.
Paramedics were called to the location of the traffic stop and it was determined that this injury was not a gunshot wound.
According to Antioch Police Sergeant Jimmy Wisecarver, officers located approximately 10 pounds of fresh marijuana in the van along with some indoor marijuana grow equipment. Officers went back to the original location that they had been dispatched to and noticed that the roll up garage door had been forced open from the inside out as if a vehicle drove through the metal door.
There were additional bullet holes going through the walls into the living area of the house.
Sgt. Wisecarver further highlighted that officers determined that this house had been converted into an indoor marijuana cultivation. It was also determined that the van was the same vehicle that had driven through the garage door.
The Antioch Police Department Special Operations Detectives were called out to the location. The detectives served a search warrant on the house. The detectives found a sophisticated marijuana cultivation operation to include over 300 mature marijuana plants. The evidence was collected and the house was boarded up.
The passenger was transported to an area hospital to be treated. He was treated for his injuries, which were determined to be non life threatening.
Both the driver, Chun Li (34 years old) and the passenger, Jianhong Li (37 years old) were arrested and booked into the county jail for marijuana cultivation.
This incident is still under investigation. Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to contact Detective Hoffman at (925)779-6931
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Just like the Al Capones of alcohol prohibition. When will we realize that the drug war creates the black market? When will we realize that prohibition creates drug syndicates? When will we see that legalization and regulation will clamp down on oversized, dangerous grow operations and replace them with smaller scale, safer conditions? Colorado and many other states have shown that this can be done. Other places outside of Antioch have shown that regulation curbs crime, results in fewer children having access, etc.
Hey Jennifer…… Your shoes untied…
Jennifer, easy to say, but you have no facts. SF and Oakland have some of the biggest marijuana dispensaries and they have numerous marijuana dispensaries. The violence and street sales related to marijuana are still happening in those cities. Go to Haight St. or Market St. Do some factual research on crime related to marijuana.
You can’t reason with half baked people, too stoned to understand facts. These people are getting facts from unproven pro marijuana sources.
Wake up, why do you always have to revert to ad hominem attacks? Everyone is just expressing their opinions. Jennifer didn’t appear to be making any personal attacks. You have the argumentation skills of a three year old.
Btw, crime related to the black market surrounding cannabis is not caused by people using cannabis. The crime is related to the available profit to be made based on the black market. Read a history book.
Crime is caused by the users of marijuana. If not for the users buying then you have no black market. If you have no black market, you have no profit. If you have no profit, you have no lazy things trying to steal your weed.
What’s your opinion on the era of alcohol prohibition and how crime became rampant during that time period? The U.S. experienced many deaths due to the alcohol crime rings from both underground distillers and even the police themselves. American law makers obviously put a stop to the alcohol drug trade by legalizing, taxing and regulating it. In today’s world you can’t go anywhere without alcohol being advertised. Do you see any connection between alcohol prohibition and the climate of crime we witness now in Antioch and elsewhere?
(P.s. Read up on how the police actually killed 10,000 people during alcohol prohibition by poisoning barrels: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html)
Crime rates down in Colorado due to legalization and regulation: https://www.drugpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Colorado_Marijuana_Legalization_One_Year_Status_Report.pdf
It looks like Antioch has a lot of growing going on. Hundreds of plants on a daily basis can’t possibly be all stored at the precinct downtown. They have limited space there like anywhere else. Nobody’s asking, but where does all the bud go after its stored in evidence?
I am Richard Nixon and I approve this message…
In 1971 my administration began the War on Drugs, and it gives me great pleasure to see our best and finest still pressing forward to defeat enemy #1. Although the U.S. undoubtedly has more drugs on its streets, prison complexes, and more prisoners than the rest of the entire world to fill them since the day I was in office, it’s busts like this that make it all worth it. Keep up the good fight Antioch! In no time we will have a planet free of any mind-altering substances or anything that would distract us from the true goal: total control over the hearts and minds of all American citizens. God bless!
Book ’em Dano…
They drove right through the garage door and started a shoot-em-up right out of a seventies action show on tv. Where had they learned this stuff? Why had they imagined this would work? This is a teachable moment, folks, make the most of it. It’s too late for these two, but maybe someone else can benefit.
Even if you don’t touch the stuff, just know that your tax dollars house millions of people (mostly nonviolent crimes) in prison who do. Justice? Not really when you consider all the child molesters that live free in our area or people who have actually killed people in cars.
Would love for you to just tell me one name of a person who is currently in prison for possession of drugs, especially marijuana. Good luck on that one.
According to the statistics there were 1.5 million arrested in 2014 for non-violent drug offenses. This is why it was voted in CA last year to begin the release of these types of prison sentences.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-war-statistics
Read your own post ” arrested in 2014 for non-violent drug offenses.” My request was for any names of people in prison for possession. This is what is wrong with you liberals. Just because you are arrested does not mean you go to prison. Nice try Carrie S. And don’t worry you will not go to prison for smoking marijuana.
Hope that guys heads ok……
Does this mean the price of pot is going up???? Aaawwwwww man.. Guess it’ll even itsrlf out, i mean with gas prices going down and all….
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/bernard-noble-marijuana_us_55b6b838e4b0074ba5a5e160
This guy facing 13 years for 2 grams.
It’s not hard to slap an “intent to sell” charge on anyone in possession. If you look the part or even have cash on you that’s probable cause. The drug policy is an extension of Jim Crow laws. I urge my fellow Californians to never ever support the Hearst family or visit that “castle”. He started all this and evaded taxes to built that thing, meanwhile we pay the taxes to house more prisoners than every other country.
Yes and let’s build more prisons for those child molesters and anyone that fails to obey the law. Let’s keep our kids safe.
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