Amber Jamieson worked at EPIC with Mirror favorite Natalynne DeLappdance. Kind of makes the imagination run wild, doesn't it?
And we mean E.P.I.C.–as in the Garberville-based Environmental Protection Information Center, whose office manager has given “grassroots organization” a whole new meaning.
EPIC’s Amber Jamieson was arrested yesterday in a multi-agency pot bust in Fieldbrook that yielded a smidge under 500 pounds of processed marijuana, neatly packaged for resale, with a street value estimated at $1.5 million.
Jamieson’s significant other, James Shelton, who was similarly arrested at the Fieldbrook residence, has a less direct connection to the litigious enviro org: Mr. Shelton–shocker alert–is a “glass-blowing artist” whose magical objets d’art are sold at EPIC’s gift shop.
Jamieson graduated from Humboldt State University with a degree in–wait for it–Natural Resources Economics. Despite the stupidity on full display now, she won an academic award at HSU and was photographed, possibly just for our amusement, standing next to a fellow award winner by the name of Soran “Rio” Anderson.
Soran "Rio" Anderson, left, stands next to Amber Jamieson. both found to be out standing in their fields.
Does that name ring any bells?
It just might. Anderson was an employee of the Community Development Disservices Department in 2007 when he was arrested for growing more than 3,000 plants up at Tooby Ranch–an incident Hank Sims described as “a heartwarming story about the tenacity of our county’s agrarian heritage.”
Read Hank’s version of Anderson’s arrest on Rose’s blog here. Read the Times-Standard’s account of Jamieson and Shelton’s arrest here.
Photo credits The Environmental Protection Information Center and Humboldt State University.Filed under: Humboldt County Tagged: | Amber Jamieson, Community Development Disservices Department, EPIC boondoggle, James Shelton, putting the EPIC in douchEPICkle, Soran "Rio" Anderson
I think EPIC would probably give her a raise for this, if there was any possibility she needed the money.
I love today.
I miss Humboldt County. There’s never any drama in Sacramento.
Can’t wait for federal intervention. Wonder of wonders, another dope growing tax evading jerk from EPIC. Doesn’t the greedy Ho know that there is no parole from club Fed?
Hugs, Andy.
(gross)
Interesting that EPIC makes its money holding people to the letter of the law – MILLIONS, by the way, in predatory litigious fees and extortion – it’s only fair to hold these people to the FULL letter of the law. Put them away, confiscate their property, they would have no compunction about doing it to others. Just as they have no compunction about breaking laws. They probably preach about people needing to pay more taxes, too.
You should also link to your post on just how much money EPIC rakes in with their predatory practices. I forget when it was, but wasn’t it 14 million?
Will Ed Denson ride to the rescue? Or Clanton? Close to 500 pounds of packaged dope. How much enviro degradation did that cause? I am not feeling charitable this morning so forgive me when I say fuck the tax cheating environental raping two faced whore. Sorry but fucking all of us by growing dope, diverting water, and not paying your fair share in state, local and federal taxes all the while condemning the “greedy corporations” qualifies her as a whore.
Nice photo. Isn’t that Peru? Who paid for that south american trip and with what money? When I look at the photo of Amber and Rio I am just crushed at how “ill” they both look.
Club Fed Amber?
3000 plants with Rio? Wow. 500 packaged pounds with Amber and her boy toy? Wow again. Glass pipes in the EPIC gift shop? Priceless.
Now we know why EPIC worked so hard to keep Gallegos in office.
The most interesting sentence in the article: “Future arrests of individuals associated with the pair are expected.”
I notice Natalynne baby’s name right below Amber on the EPIC page.
I hope they bring the full weight of the Federal Government down on you guys. Letter, period, comma, apostrophe of the law. Every. Single. Bit. I’m with 7:41 above. Fuck these people.
When is RA going to sue EPIC for the toxins present at their site in Arcata?
“……Heartwarming tenacity of our county’s agarian heritage…” Ok, so our ‘agarian heritage’ is the pot industry, at least that is what seems to be displayed by these, oh so highly evolved individuals. Why are the non-native plant folks not screaming bloody murder about this, where are our environmental warriors to lead of the charge of indignation over the use of synthetic fertilizer? Vacumm packed in plastic bags? The horror! Bet those plastic bags were made by an evil, third-world exploiting coporation.
Just when you think that EPIC, Baykeeper, Save The Redwoods and all the rest of the non-profit, save the earth hypocrites cannot sink lower, they manage. Now, lets sit back and wait for the usual apologists to chime in and attempt to spin and sanctify this bullshit. Step up Mr. Sims, we are waiting.
Rose, and 7:41….WORD UP!
I’m sure (to set a good example for the rest of us earth destroying capitalists) it was 500 pounds of sustainably-grown, organic, GMO-free pot harvested by local, sustainable, union workers with good karma.
Fuck E.P.I.C. and their hypocritical asses. They get the last laugh because Gallegos will bend over backwards to slap their wrists any way he can.
Yep Gags will, but the feds are on this one so it doesn’t matter how much EPIC supported Gags to protect their lying cheating tax evading asses.
Hey Amber, club fed awaits you.
Hey Amber’s buddies, wonder how it feels to know that you will all go down together.
Ah, its a grand day.
It’s surprising that HSU hasn’t added a environmentally friendly pot cultivation minor to its Natural Resources program. Pssss Rollin, it’ll boost enrollment!
Eh, she lived high while it lasted, looks like she got some nice vacations. You can do that with a million bucks tax-free, eh?
These people don’t give a shit about the environment, remember that, it’s all about the money.
Help. I’ve fallen down laughing and I can’t get up.
I cannot tell a lie. Wilted at 12:49 made me piss myself laughing.
Nice one!
Why do conservatives always piss themselves? Signs of aging?
No, actually its a sign of a sense of humor! Now begone unfunny proglydite.
or is that proglidyte?
I think it is proglidouche.
With a load of pot like that, how come EPIC is against full size trucks on the 101? Please tell me the pot was not genetically modified or a monoculture, fed artificial fertilizers or protected with pesticides, and of course native to the region. Looks like their preaching only applies to others. I can’t wait for someone outside DA (DoucheAssistant) to start following the money from this one.
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/blog/epic-sues-caltrans/attachment/endorsedrichardsongrovecomplaint/
Epic’s next press release will read that the bust must of been a part of the STATE/Caltrans conspiracy to clear cut Richardsons Grove.
Looks like they are going to have to raise more money for their lawsuit.
I wonder if some of that was bound for DC with Shane, you don’t think Obama does not like some good smoke. God knows he can’t stand reality.
Proglidouche? My my Martha made a funny.
I was just pondering while flying my kite just how Amber will look in the traditional fed blue coveralls? Or if they have a glass blowing shop at club fed for her pal? Or just how much ass puckering her other EPIC friends are feeling right now? Just wondering.
TS reports the dope will be opened and dumped in a pit to be burried. And rot.
Will this really happen? How soon? Why not just burn it too?
That is a lot of weed. EPICs tax exempt status should be revoked.
I don’t like how EPIC acts like a two faced bully and misuses the law but I disagree with Ponderz unless more folks are involved from EPIC. Employees commit crimes but if this is systemic
(ACORN like) then Ponderz is right.
With DeLapp so high up in the EPIC food chain and so involved with D.A. Paul Gallegos’ election campaign, it makes you wonder how systemic the weed mass production is within EPIC? It could be just a few individuals, or it could be the vast majority. We’ll never know until enough of them are arrested.
But on it’s face, it seems as if EPIC is a massively hypocritical organization whose members preach one thing and do another (quite illegal activity on a shockingly massive scale.)
Will DeLapp show her boobs already? It’s time. Mirror exclusive.
If that shit is really “MEDICINE” it should not be destroyed or buried, but should be DONATED to a POT clinic. FREE, or sold to raise money to fund our Deputies. If it is given FREE, then it should be distributed a very reduced rates to indigent “patients.”
Jus’ saying.
But we all know this is a lie and a sham, and it should be legalized NOW, so that sick people who really can use it to help them eat after chemo can either grow their own or pick up a pack for a couple bucks at the local grocery store, just like cigarettes and aspirin.
And SHAME on the POT industry for fighting the legalization on the ballot. All about the money, living high in more ways than one. Fuck these people.
We need to sell that cannabis to the dispensaries and use the money to restore county services. Why would we throw away millions of dollars?
The level of hypocricy in this community astounds me. As the parent of a elementary school student, I am constantly blown away by the number of families in which neither parent has a full time occupatation yet are able to take the kids to Costa Rica for two weeks during the holiday break every year. I jokingly tell my wife that we should walk around with “kick me” signs on our backs because we work our asses off and make prudent financial decisions only to see these smug assholes living the good live while demonstrating to their children that it’s right to not work for “the man” while partaking in all the benefits that “the man” offers. While I hate to revel in the misfortune of others, I would really like to see all these dudes and their high maintenance ganja princesses try to make ends meet without the aid of their ill gotten gains. Two tears in a bucket, and fuck it, assholes…
That’s a big ditto from me square peg. Right on. Someone I lnow was whining that they had a lot of pot that they could only get 800 a pound for and I told them tough shit. Laughed my ass off
RA/SN needs to file suit against EPIC now
Oh good god. Eat shit troll at 8:18.
I hope they both get fed prison and a IRS audit.
And I agree, Fuck E.P.I.C.
Agreed. An IRS audit and FBI attention to the SoHum cartel.
Usually, when the feds do one of these, every computer and cell phone gets torn apart for records, texts, emails, photos (dopers commonly take pictures of the grow, often posing with the product), Would love to be a fly on the wall during that process.
I am thinking of the all of the butt puckering that is going on with some folks after reading that post Wilted.
Makes me think of how high up the food chain that puckering might be occurring?
Gives new meaning to the term “pucker power”.
For those of you who are quick to judge, remember, not everything is as it seems. Many of these type of busts are set-ups–who is REALLY behind this?
You are under the influence or have killed way too many brain cells to believe that the cops planted 500 one pound packages of pot, planted a couple of hundred plants and cash? You are just f’ing bonkers. Stay off the sauce or “just say no”.
innocent until proven guilty
Mendo man are you for real? A set up? Someone planted 500 pounds of processed weed on them? !
Or maybe you mean this is a vast right government conspiracy? That must be it.
You are such a lame POS.
Hope they get a stiff sentence in Federal prison. They can swap stories of their vacations to Peru and Costa Rica with their cell mates.
Ha ha ha
Innocent until proven guilty is the rule for jurors to follow. The rest of us are free to use our common sense
Not buying it, Mendo. I’m not one to blindly swallow what the media feeds me, but I’ve lived here for far too long to believe that these guys (Amber and James) are not a dime a dozen. If big brother really wanted to crack down, this place would be a house of cards.
Good point, Anon @ 11:34. That said, this is a well known lifestyle choice for a large number of folks in this county and these two fit the stereotype like a glove. Humboldt didn’t get its reputation for nothing, right? While they may or may not be the kingpins of this op, it’s difficult for me to believe that they were not knee deep in potential profit from it’s sale.
That’s presumed by law innocent till proven guilty. That’s got nothing to do with public opinion nor my opinion. So friend Wilted, I will say that’s a big BINGO.
Not tryna snitch on these folks.
But
Heard hella folks talking about you need to move elbows of regs, hit up Jamieson. At the time was all how inna fuck you gone drop a courier? Used to folks saying shit like yo talk to Black or talk to the Hmong homie Lil Cloudy, not go speak to first name-last name-street address-social security number. No shit these folks got popped, they needed to stop telling ignorant ass weed pitching knuckleheads who they were. No shit they had a Fed snitch in the mix if they was doing it big with no type of down low hill people code. Instead they was using that dumb fuck city white folk you can call me Birdies in the Box Smith.
On the other shit tho so happy for my people choosing not to deal with these wack ass no 4Runner leasing, DEA tapped hippy fuckwits.
Oh christ. Spare us.
???? Mr. Nice? What is that?
Is it just me or is the “departure” of Greacen from EPIC extremely well timed. Pot may be listed as $3,000/lb, but information can be priceless.
but shes hot and on the team. dont make another beautiful woman leave the county…
Oh Mr. Shelton…..enjoy yourself in the relatively low-key Humboldt Correctional Facility, that federal thing is going to get real ugly, real fast. You good buddy Paul is not going to be much help, I would imagine his recent activites might be viewed rather dimly by certain segments of the Federales. At least he is finally out of the closet as the Pot Lobbyist that he actually is. I’ll bet that ‘elected office’ thing really gets in the way of his chosen vocation.
Natalynne DeLapp, Amber Jamieson, and Paul Gallegos………….Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm EPIC & POT …Could this be why the HumCo Sheriff brought in the Feds to handle this last one with Jamieson? How long until they audit EPIC and see the flow of cash, or the DA links to POT?
EPIC isn’t the only group getting drug money, just one of the most blatant. Take a look at their financial reports online compare it to their stafff (and their standards of living), plus other expenses of running the operation and the math doesn’t work unless you add unreported cash.
The more EPIC cranks up the Richardson Grove, Green Diamond, Spotted Owl, or any other “urgent” cause in an attempt to deflect attention, the deeper we know the involvement goes with this type of illicit operation.
EPIC is begging for money on their website. A mere coincidence that the plea for funds comes so soon after a major pot bust? They need 2 pounds….oops make that $5,000 to take on CalTrans.
Lotsa housecleaning going on at EPIC staff members homes lately. Gotta get rid of those old bulbs, fertilizers, plastic piping, etc. It’s about the only positive thing EPIC has done to clean up the environment in it’s history.
Check out the seized property notices in yesterday’s Wall St. Journal, look under Northern CA.
EPIC = Every Plant Increases Cashflow
Shocked, absolutely shocked that someone in our organization might be associated with illegal farming. Our organization traces it’s roots to the peaceful agricultural community of Garberville and our employees have always been able to live above their reported incomes.
LINK? 7:36? Have a link? Or can you scan and email a copy?
Rose
I can’t find a link and have already gotten rid of my copy. For some reason, the DEA doesn’t post online, so I’d suggest a trip to the library to see if they have the back issues.
Interested to know what became of this bust. The only reference I’ve seen since the initial flurry was an interview of EPIC’s director in the NCJ in which he was asked about the Amber Jamison bust. His response included a heart warming announcement that Ms. Jamison was expecting a child and therefore was deserving of the community’s understanding and support. And the cycle continues…
If we had a local newspaper they might be inclined to do a follow up and dig a little deeper, and maybe, just once tell the rest of the story. Ok, I’m back from Fantasyland. Very telling that EPIC will readily take money of questionable origin and play dumb when someone gets pinched.I think it’s time for the IRS to examine this so called non-profit.
Remember assumptions make an ass out of you and me. Pot growers pay taxes. POT GROWERS PAY TAXES. Thank you and good night.
9:22 To be clear, pot growers pay some taxes. Sales tax on generators, new pickups and ATV’s. They even pay fuel taxes when they buy fuel for their new toys. They pay property taxes if they own the land where they grow, but I’m pretty sure the Assessor doesn’t send them a bill if they grow on public land. They pay income tax on whatevever portion of their ill gotten gains they choose to funnel through a laundering operation, like a phony business front or non-profit where they are employed. They also don’t pay the permitting or regulatory costs for their operations, which in California can be sizable when grading land, diverting water, using pesticides; not to mention dumping diesel in creeks.
RH’s IRS comment was with regard to EPIC, not growers (although the two appear to be inseparable). Still, I’m going to bite: Sales Tax? Yes. Property Taxes (if they indeed own property)? Yes. Federal and State Income Taxes? Please explain.
They pay on some portion only to avoid being snagged up as someone who lives well, but has 0 income. So they start some type of cover business like a winery, consulting firm, banjo maker, or a fake non-profit front to launder the money. Let’s say you have $300,000 of profit to hide. Start a group called Environmental Phony Income Center, take in “cash” donations from various sources, mostly your illicit profits, and pay yourself a salary and other benefits. So you get taxed on your $50,000 salary which is below the radar for triggering much in the way of an audit in our geographic area and you appear legit. You’re able to wash a good portion of the income through the organization as donations and can add “employees” who want to shelter their cash as well.
How about a contest to name what E.P.I.C. really stands for?
I think the bugs nailed it with douchEPICkle.
Every Prog Intakes Cannibis
Even Paul Is Complicit
Enriching Protestors In Cash (tax free cash of course)
Evading Pot Income Center
or backwards; Cannabis Is Pretty Enriching
Did EPIC move their office to somewhere out Hwy 36, or are the numerous dope busts just a coincidence?
Must be a campaign supporter. Hundreds of pounds of dope, more plants plus guns and there’s already a plea bargain for community service plus the cash they found during the bust. Move along now, nothing to see here.
The EPIC workers got caught by the feds and will likely face a serious sentence, whereas the head of the international drug ring has managed to plea bargain for community service. Thanks Gags, I’m sure he’ll become a model citizen.
Has EPIC no shame? OK, stupid question, but getting kids to grow dope is just pathetic.
Did EPIC’s pot have prop 65 warning labels on the bags? Maybe one of these “enviro” groups should file a class action.
I went to the store to get a turkey bag for the holidays, but they were sold out. Some enviro group bought them all up. Seems they have lots of turkeys.
Bugs
Any updates on sentencing? The guy they just busted out on Hwy 36 with a similar amount got community service, but then he had to face “Humboldt Justice” instead of the feds.
At least our DA gave him a good finger waggin’ and asked him pretty please not to do it again.
Santa is pretty pissed off over the whole event. He was supposed to pick up 500 green packages with red bows in Fieldbrook over the holidays. Why do you think he’s always so merry and his reindeer are flying.
EPIC grows dope is the top story for 2011. I’m absolutely shocked and never thought I’d see the day the enviros got popped for growing dope to fund their operations. What could top this in 2012?
CATS caught dealing in foreing pussy?
Baykeeper boat linked to coke fueled trips on bay?
Earth First chages name to Earth Second-Me First, because eating slugs and crapping in a bucket just sucks?
Agents closing in on NFL player’s pot connection to Humboldt County
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_19833838?source=most_viewed
“California Department of Justice spokeswoman Michelle Gregory said drug enforcement agents are closing in on the person or people suspected of supplying Simpson’s marijuana. While Gregory declined to offer any details of the investigation, she said local police agencies are not involved.”
Would you say Simpson had an EPIC season?
Anon! Classic and great!
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic that the former head of EPIC made the news this week talking about the environmental destruction caused by the pot grows? Are we going to see the enviro groups that were raised on pot funding start suing the dope growers because that’s where the money is?