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10 Riverside County Blood Bath
While California may have legalized marijuana in 2018, a black market continues to thrive, along with the associated violence. On September 7, Riverside County police arrived at a residence in Aguanga and discovered six people dead from gunshots. An unidentified female victim was alive and rushed to the hospital, where she later died.
Investigators discovered the signs of an illegal pot growing operation at the property on the edge of Cleveland National Forest. “This was a very large operation, a very organized-crime type of operation,” noted Sheriff Chad Bianco. There were hundreds of cannabis plants, a make-shift greenhouse, a laboratory for butane-extraction of THC, and more than 1,000 pounds of processed marijuana.[1]
These deaths bring the total of illegal marijuana operation related homicides in Riverside county this year to 14. These grows bring in massive amounts of cash. Without access to banks or police they are prime targets for predators.[2]
9 Post Office Mama
On September 23, 2019, a South Carolina postal worker was found riddled with .223 bullets in her mail vehicle. Known affectionately as the “Post Office Mana”, Irene Pressley worked for the US Postal Service for nearly 20 years. Police arrested Trevor Raekwon Seward, 22, and Jerome Terrell Davis, 28, for the senseless slaughter. Court documents allege the duo murdered Pressley, 64, at 3pm with the intent to steal a package of marijuana.[3]
A fingerprint on one of Pressley’s parcels traced back to Seward. Prosecutors allege Seward was seen holding an AR-15 shortly before the time of the murder. A third man, Ricky Jesus Rocha Barajas, 28, of Santa Rosa, CA, was charged with drug conspiracy. Prosecutors allege Barajas and Davis facilitated a drug transaction via telephone on the day of the murder. Seward and Davis face no less than life if convicted. Barajas could receive five years in federal prison.[4]
8 South Bend Self Defense
A drug deal gone bad is testing the limits of Indiana’s self-defense laws. No one disputes that on April 28, 2019, Traychon Taylor attempted to rob Kyle Doroszko, 19, at gunpoint in the parking lot of a South Bend bar. Doroszko drew his own gun and killed the robber. Prosecutors charged Doroszko with murder, claiming that, because he was attempting to sell marijuana at the time of the shooting, he cannot qualify for self-defense. Indiana law prevents the use of self-defense at the time a crime is being committed—even if that crime is non-violent.[5]
Doroszko’s attorney, John Kindley, notes: “it is absurd to propose that a person whose life is threatened while he or she is engaged in a non-violent activity the government deems a crime—such as selling marijuana or prostitution—must just allow themselves to be killed, or be charged with murder if they successfully defend themselves”.[6]
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