(05-04-2018, 10:01 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(05-04-2018, 09:39 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: That’s interesting. I had heard about problems but not the entire panoply of what exactly they were. What’s up with the Russian mob? Are they in the pot business now?

It's money laundering that they're into.

Exactly. 

My cousin and her husband and two kids live on a ranch out there and they've noticed an uptick of people moving into and out of ranches in their area that are for sale (so they're squatting.) They grow weed in the barns and when law enforcement catches wind of it and the folks know they know, they get the heck out of dodge. 

Or someone will buy a ranch and grow weed in the barns. They get caught when the water bill suddenly skyrockets from normal usage over the decades. The water company alerts LEOs and they go in and clean house. 

It was a fascinating conversation with my aunts. They've both lived in CO their whole lives (so about 61 years. One in a suburb of Denver and the other east of Colorado Springs) and they said it's unreal the things that are being affected. My uncle still lives on the family ranch out in the middle of nowhere, SE of the Springs. He works for the county and sees some crazy stuff too.

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