Alleged swap deal leads to 300-pound & 49 gram find at home
Staff Report
Humboldt Sentinel
Two men spent a short time in county jail today after their attempt to buy a motorcycle with pounds of marijuana bud led to a big methamphetamine find at their home.
It all started at about 9:30 a.m. this morning, when a deputy sheriff working undercover met with two suspects at the corner of F Street and Harris Street in Eureka. In line with his duties as part of the Community Response Unit of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, the deputy arranged the meeting after 41-year-old Eureka resident Jason Cecil Bacon called an online ad for a used motorcycle.
It turned out that the seller, who was asked to accept $8,000 worth of cannabis bud for the motorcycle, was a non-sworn employee of the HCSO. The seller turned the case over to the CRU and they set up the exchange.
When the undercover cop met Jason Bacon in the parking lot, he was taken to a pickup truck driven by the suspect’s father, 57-year-old Raymond Edison Bacon. There he was allegedly shown approximately one-and-a-half pounds of bud, according to a press statement by HCSO lieutenant Steve Knight. Upon seeing the pot, the deputy signaled other law enforcement nearby, including the Eureka Police Department’s Problem Oriented Policing unit, who drove into the parking lot and arrested the suspects.
After they were popped by POP, deputies obtained a Humboldt County Superior Court search warrant for the Bacon home, located on the 3600 block of Williams Street in Eureka. The CRU and POP coordinated a raid on the residence, where they found over 300 pounds of dried marijuana, 11 firearms (one of which was allegedly stolen), 49 grams of methamphetamine, two-and-a-half pounds of hash and a stolen quadrunner.
The father and son were booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility without further incident, and charged with cultivation and possession of marijuana for sale. Their bail was set at $25,000 — which they paid off, leaving the jail before additional charges could be filed in relation to the raid on their home. The case was sent to the District Attorney with a request to file additional charges of possession of concentrated cannabis, possession of methamphetamine for sale and possession of stolen property.
Members of the public with information for the HCSO regarding this case or related criminal activity are encouraged to call them at (707) 445-7251 or their Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
