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Dec 1, 2021 · Zeke Flatten, a Texas-based man who was the first person to come forward with allegations that he was robbed by police officers posing as ATF, sat watching this unfold in the courtroom. After Wednesday’s hearing, Flatten said Tatum’s guilty plea marks the “beginning of the end” of the years-long case.
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Click each photo to see how law enforcement agencies, current and former officers, and alleged victims are connected amid the complex web of accusations involving theft, extortion, and conspiracies. “This is about corrupt police officers that are doing something far worse than growing or possessing cannabis,” said former Texas police officer Zeke F...
The three growers joining Flatten as plaintiffs – Chris Gurr, Ann Marie Borges and Will Knight – say their cannabis businesses were going through the legal Mendocino County permitting process when officials from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office raided their farms, claiming they were illegally dive...
Smith’s attorney declined to comment for the story. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office also declined to comment until the legal matter was resolved, as did Allman, who now works as a deputy in Humboldt County after retiring at the end of 2019, one year into his new term as sheriff. “Obviously there...
As Flatten describes it, the story does sound like it could come out of a movie. He was in town from Texas working out the details on a legal marijuana business he hoped to launch, driving south on Highway 101 just north of the Sonoma-Mendocino County line, when he says an unmarked SUV with flashing police lights pulled up behind him. He says he pu...
Dec 16, 2022 · On December 5, 2017, two men claiming to be ATF agents stopped Zeke Flatten, a former undercover officer, just north of Frog Woman Rock in Mendocino County and robbed him of three pounds of Humboldt County marijuana.
- Kym Kemp
Dec 2, 2021 · Zeke Flatten, a Texas-based man who was the first person to come forward with allegations that he was robbed by police officers posing as ATF, sat watching this unfold in the courtroom.
Aug 20, 2019 · Zeke Flatten, a former undercover investigator, was stopped and robbed by men claiming to be federal agents in 2017. He sued the City of Rohnert Park and its public safety department for conspiracy, extortion and corruption, and reached a settlement in August 2019.
- Kym Kemp
Sep 24, 2021 · Zeke Flatten, the motorist who first came forward to independent reporter Kym Kemp in 2018 to say he had been robbed by police officers posing as ATF agents, filed a new lawsuit this month alleging that the conspiracy to seize and sell marijuana went far beyond Tatum and Huffaker.
Dec 15, 2022 · “It’s been a long time, five years ago this month,” said Zeke Flatten, who says Huffaker and a yet unidentified second individual robbed him of three pounds of marijuana in December 2017 ...
