Unless the laws have recently changed 65 LB's of weed is no joke in NJ. If it's his first offense he probably won't get hit too bad but it is a real possibility if he's charged with distribution ....which 65 lb's pretty much guarantees he is or will be charged with.

Distribution :

Less than 1 oz felony 1.5 years $ 25,000
1 oz - 5 lbs felony 3* - 5 years $ 25,000
5 - 25 lbs felony 5* - 10 years $ 150,000
25 lbs or more felony 10* - 20 years $ 300,000
Within 1000 feet of a school or school bus felony 3* - 5 years $ 150,000

* Mandatory minimum sentence

If the cops really hate you and they're looking for a place to pull you over with enough drugs in your car for a distribution charge they'll do it in a school zone where you get 3 to5 years automatically. No if ands or buts....3 to 5 years mandatory.

If theres a lawyer here he can correct me if i'm wrong on that but that was the law last time i checked.

http://norml.org/laws/item/new-jersey-penalties-2

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Great post, GC. It's nice to see it all laid out in black and white like that .

40,000 LB'S? Thats a real shitload of weed. Must of had a warehouse or 2...weed (especially high end weed) is so bulky i can only imagine what 40,000 lb's looks like in one place. If it was from north cali and it was skunk buds that shit must of reeked....those drug dogs could probably smell it from miles away...lol

Originally paper reported as 40k but I believe that was mis stated and is closer to 4k ( big difference )

I deleted the post so as not to confuse

No problem.....thanks for the update. Still a lot of smoke....seems that you hear about more and more mob connected guys getting involved in high end weed these days.

I remember reading about Emmanuel Adamita's son Frank getting popped in NY for a indoor grow operation he had going 7 or 8 years ago . The Adamita's were big sicilian heroin guys with the Gambino's. I think he got 5 years for it....they had some crazy name like the Cartoon guys or Cartoon network.....they were moving a decent amount of smoke besides what they were growing.

Joe Difronzo also had a large pot operation going on

It was 3k seized. On the wire they had larca saying he had access to two 500 pound shipments so it might be that the whole 3000 wasn't all his because they did also arrest his west coast connection.

There was another group called the rodriguez enterprise that was busted in 2012 for massive california/miami to ny weed operation since the early 90s, also had murders and money laundering charges too.Some of them got busted before that in 2010 which included rock a fella records founder kareem biggs burke. Theres probably been a bit of a vacuum since these guys got busted.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bron...ticle-1.1142114

It is crazy to see all these high grade weed busts going on back east. Here is California I have a medical marijuana card, and I belong to a dispensary that has a special buyers club that you can make a donation and then you get weed really cheap. The best weed out here right now is a hybrid called Kosher Kush. If you do not belong to the club you bay $55 for an eight and $320 for an ounce. In the club, I pay $35 and eight of $220 an ounce. I can also purchase up to 2 pounds per day at $2500. It is no wonder all the good weed is coming from California, and it seems like the state has to know what is going on but they will not bite the hand that feeds them.

I see guys from the east coast coming into the dispensary all the time buying book bags full of weed.

"Kosher Kush"...lol!

Who comes up with these names?

Hasidic potheads?

Did you guys see the report on TMZ the other day. The fire department in Australia was called for a fire in a hotel room and smoke was billowing out from the room but when they got there it was just Snoop doing his thing smoking up a storm. lol!

He posed with the firemen for a pic...it was on tmz.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/24/snoop-dogg-hotel-room-smoking-firefighters-australia/

Hey PB you are actually right. The guys who created the strain are Jewish guys who live in Hancock Park.

Hey Giancarlo I saw that about Snoop. He actually goes to my dispensary. I have never seen him but they have pictures on the wall of all the famous potheads who go there. Needless to say, pretty much every rapper who lives in Los Angeles is on that wall.

Oh man. I was out in Cali last year surveying for PG&E and, as a pot smoker, I met more growers than sellers. I was up in Red Bluff, CA and met some dude who told me he and 2 of his buddies were the first people ever to get their bud taken by the cops when they got pulled over and then got their pot back. I didn't believe him so he gave me his name and told me to google it and sure as shit, there were newspaper articles and pictures to back up his story. But coming from Massachusetts I was shocked at how cheap the bud was out there. I would buy an ounce for $100-$120 and that same ounce would sell for a minimum of $300 back here in Mass. You guys ever hear of ear wax? I'm not talking about the wax we find in our ears either.

Hey man I know what you mean about their being more buyers than sellers. I mean who other than Snoop needs 2 pounds of weed per day? What do they think these people are doing with all that weight?

I know what you mean about the wax that stuff is amazing. For all of you non-pot heads, wax is similar to bubble hash except it is not as sticky and it is easier to handle. Nothing like shop top shelf bud laced with some wax. Doesn't get better than that lol.

At those prices I could live off selling 2 lbs a week which is a quanity you can get away with . This ain't new though , west coast to east coast been the weed play for decades

All you need is the network which LCN does they their gambling , shy and just local friends .

From what I'm hearning , Carlos was setting up a franchise here.
He was " pushing weight " line on a few ( as late as sat night )

If you do this smart , you can turn around a quick $40k and maybe meet 4 or 5 people . Good quick crack money .

With the prices the way they are I'd be willing the spend $20 for an oil change in my car them just drive out there myself. Make the ride out there like a vacation just in case I get caught on my way back with 50lbs in my car and get sent away for a while. It's almost worth the risk.

Son of Notorious NJ Luchese Capo Nailed with 65lbs of Pot
Monday, January 27, 2014
http://cosa-nostra-news.blogspot.com/20 ... .html#more

New Jersey troopers found 65 pounds of marijuana in a pickup truck on Saturday driven by Carlo Taccetta, a suspected soldier in the Luchese crime family and son of reputed Luchese capo Michael Taccetta, also known as "Mad Dog," a high-ranking member who controlled the family's New Jersey faction in the 1980s-90s and was one of the 20 defendants in the notorious trial considered to be the longest in U.S. history.

Carlo Taccetta, 41, of the Whippany section of Hanover, was stopped on West Bloomfield Avenue in Montville as part of an ongoing investigation Saturday, State Police said.

Troopers found the marijuana after Taccetta gave them permission to search his Dodge Ram pickup truck.

Taccetta was charged with possession of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute, and was sent to the Morris County Jail on $75,000 bail with no 10 percent option.

The case will be prosecuted by the Division of Criminal Justice, State Police said.

Carlo's father was involved with the Luchese's New Jersey faction, and is notable for allegedly having served as the inspiration for a classic HBO television series about a New Jersey mob boss, and also was a defendant in one of the longest trials in U.S. history, which also served as the basis for a film.


Michael Taccetta's mob nickname was "Mad Dog."

Michael Taccetta is considered to have been the model for the character of Tony Soprano of HBO's The Sopranos; he also was among the defendants in the absurdly long-lasting 1980s trial of the New Jersey-based Luchese crew that served as the basis for the lauded 2006 film Find Me Guilty, directed by Sidney Lumet and featuring Vin Diesel in the starring role of Jack DiNorscio, a then-member of the Luchese crew who since died. (The actor put 30 pounds on his frame and had to undergo three-hour makeup sessions to become his character; official transcripts from the trial were used to write the dialog for the courtroom scenes.)

As for the nonfictional Michael Taccetta, he'd been childhood friends with Anthony "Tumac" Accetturo; Taccetta would eventually join Accetturo's street crew in North Jersey.

In 1976, newly made boss Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo decided to strengthen his New Jersey faction, inducting Accetturo, Taccetta and several others into the Luchese crime family. Accetturo was put in charge of the North Jersey faction of the Lucheses, and Taccetta became his top protégé.

After a tumultuous period during the Vittorio "Vic" Amuso and Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso rein, in 1986, the same year of the Commission Trial in New York, Taccetta and Accetturo were arrested with 18 other Northern New Jersey Luchese mobsters. The indictment was the result of a four-year investigation and consisted of 76 counts of labor racketeering, illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, drug trafficking, money laundering, conspiracy and murder for hire.

The longest trial ever in the United States, it went on (and on) for more than 21 months. At the end, all 20 defendants were acquitted.

Then, in 1994, the entire New Jersey faction's administration was put on trial, including the elder Accetturo. In the end Michael got 25 years for racketeering, narcotics, extortion, loansharking, conspiracy and murder. The next year, he got 40 years, concurrent, for conspiracy to commit 10 murders.

Philly.com, in a 1995 article, described Taccetta as "the leader of an extremely violent faction of the Lucchese crime family that operated out of the Newark area. The group was said to use violence, including murder, to control extensive gambling, loan-sharking and extortion operations.

"Prosecutors said the murder-racketeering case last year was a prime example. In that case, Taccetta, his brother Martin and three others were charged in a racketeering scheme that centered on the 1984 golf-club- bludgeoning death of mob associate Vincent "Jimmy Sinatra" Craparotta"

Taccetta, 62, is imprisoned in New Jersey's South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, New Jersey. He is up for possible parole in April of this year.

^That's a nice article on Carlo's dad.

Saw a link on that same page that ex-NBA player Javaris Crittenton (the guy that got in trouble with Gilbert Arenas a few years back for having guns in the locker room) was arrested for conspiring to move 400 KEYS(!) of coke. Funny part was he was also looking to sell only 10 lbs of weed in the same deal lol

Not true. Although I get why you would think that. I'm not going to say how they hide the smell but let's just say you wouldn't smell it. Trust me. It's also not as bulky as you would think. It's shrinkwrapped so tight you wouldn't believe it. It doesn't look like what you think. Is very condensed.

and as stated, it wasnt 40,000 it was 4000 lbs.

https://www6.state.nj.us/DOC_Inmate/details?x=1180099&n=0

Michael is out in April. Should be interesting.

Cheech i'm comparing it to how the mexican brick their weed and compared to that it's pretty damn bulky.

Yes i know they shrink wrap it, some even twice then put it in sealed pails and try to put some other shit in there too to cover the smell....but nothing gets rid of the smell of top end weed to the point you can't smell. it.....at least nothing that i've seen and i've known more then a few growers over the many years. You can shrink wrap it only so tight...no way you want to crush the buds.

I don't care what you do to it....those dope dogs will smell it...unless some new method has recently been developed.

Whatever happened to that weed case that involved a Westie? From a year ago i think it was and he was flying it east from cali in a private jet.

When he got popped the papers said it was the return of the Westies. The NY papers only wish it was.

I think i have that right. Anything new on it?

Looks like John Bokun, the alleged "Boss of the Westies" lol was sentenced last year GC


JANUARY 8, 2013NEW YORK, NY
New York man sentenced for drug trafficking, ordered to forfeit private jet
NEW YORK — A New York man was sentenced Tuesday to 31 months in federal prison on conspiracy charges related to the distribution and possession of marijuana. The sentence is the result of an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
The court also required John Bokun, who was sentenced Tuesday, to surrender his Dassault-Breguet Falcon 10 jet aircraft and $7,101. Bokun pleaded guilty May 11, 2012, to the charges.
According to court documents, HSI special agents tracked Bokun traveling on his private jet from California to Republic Airport in East Farmingdale, N.Y. HSI special agents observed the aircraft Dec. 15, 2011, landing on Long Island and taxing towards an area dedicated to servicing private planes.
Once the aircraft arrived, HSI special agents observed Bokun, the plane's pilot, and another man exit the jet to an awaiting U-Haul truck. HSI special agents, with assistance from the New York State Police, stopped the truck.
After obtaining a search warrant, HSI special agents discovered ten black containers carrying 112.4 kilograms of marijuana. HSI special agents then arrested Bokun and a co-conspirator.
The prosecution of this case was handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.

Oh shit he lost the jet. Hope it wasn't paid off.

Thanks Del.

sounds like you know better than I do

Well i have no idea what you know or don't know. But one thing i do know is those damn dogs can smell drugs that much effort has been made to conceal the odor of. If they can pinpoint coke that has been multisealed then i would bet they can smell sealed up shrink wrapped skunk buds. Those dogs are actually pretty amazing at what they can detect.

But it's all good...we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

"those drug dogs could probably smell it from miles away"


which I understand is an exaggeration, but your implication is that they would easily smell it. I say not true...I seen it