The name Richard Baghdadlian is listed with the Quebec Registry of Corporations (418-643-3625) --- company registration 9102-1352 Quebec, Inc (Heaven's Stairway) Home number 514-856-0244

 

 

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'The Conspiracy theories begin'

Some of the seed dealers that delt with RC are gettin busted. There is evidence that RC was arrested 9 months ago, and may have been cooperating with the police for as long. Looks like a lot of North American breeders are goin away...

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He's just gone according to Marc Scott Emery  

The server upgrade was the cover for disappearing altogether. A number of people who do biz at both cannabisworld and overgrow told me the day it went down that "thats server upgrade, nothing to be concerned about". I still said, "but why wouldn't you have the DNS redirected to a page that merely updated that information? " Yet when I asked this obvious question those companies close to overgrow/rc/cannabisworld showed no concern at all. So 9 days after servers shut dow, we've called prisons, people have supplied us with RC's "real" name, we've called around, and more close associates came in and asked us not to say Richard disappeared, that it would be good "if people don't know for a while.".
Police would have announced the bust. Family members aren't talking because they have no reason to. No one is worried about RC's life or health or any prospect of jail. He's just gone.
OG may get sold at some point, but not right away. Its still intact apparently and I think people are just being patient who have a vested interest in those sites.

'speculation is all their is'

When I was busted, my people reassured everyone right away, even though we didn't really has anyone's sensitive information. You guys do it how you want, but if overgrowers are roaming the net combing for scraps of verifiable information, we tried to find it, and we talked about what we found.
Thats why its in the socializing lounge and not the News & Events because none of the people involved are willing to talk. Its all speculation. And from what you folks have provided me, speculation is all their is.

February 11th Source: Cannabis Culture Magazine

 

Heavens Stairway Over Grow Richard Baghdadlian RC = RB Testifies Marc Emery

Posted by christbuors @ 23:15 Does Canada have a Witness Protection Program? Will Narc Emery be allowed to stay in Canada as long as he keeps posting states evidence on Cannabis Culture Cannibals Forums? Pass around the Electric Koolaide boys it is time for the acid test. Marc Emery publicly rats out Richard Baghdad for what reason? Is this a gangland style purging selling out the completion's gang members to protect your own? Why is Marc Emery ignoring Chris Doty's death? Why is Marc Emery injecting himself into the OverGrow story? How can the cult of Emery mindlessly support their leader calling the police, reporting the crime, follow up by calling every other government agency that might be involved. This is called informing on a competitor not reporting on a bust. Are reporters now calling the police to report a crime and provide contact information and evidence then report that there is an investigation going on?

 

The man behind Overgrow Richard Boucher?

In the beginning, it was said to be server problems. Then it was rumors of arrests. Now there's confirmation.

ShoutWire was the first source to cover this story with enough detail to 'connect the dots' for the masses.

Police raided the home of Canadian resident Richard Calrisian (Boucher?) owner of the popular marijuana website Overgrow.com on Thursday. He was arrested and charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession of a controlled substance with the purpose of trafficking.

If you are not familiar with overgrow.com, it is one of the largest marijuana websites on the net. It also has one of the biggest communities of growers anywhere. Add to that the fact that police are rumored to have seized computer components and you can see why this might have some people sweating a little bit more than usual.

An anonymous member of OG was quoted as saying “Man, I'd go nowhere near that site”. A webmaster of a related site that was said to be close to the individuals has posted on his own site , “be warned guys and do what you need to do to make it safer for all of you ... duck and cover if needs be.”

While it is not exactly clear whether or not information will be taken from the computers and used to bring charges against others, it is a very definite possibility and has got some folks on edge.

 

The Accused and the Charges

 

On the 02nd of February 2006, a joint drug investigation conducted by members of Project Northern Gateway (an O.P.P. Drug Enforcement Section lead initiative), and members of the Hearst Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, resulted in the arrest of four Hearst residents. At approximately 5:30 P.M a search warrant was executed at a Prince Street in the Town of Hearst. The search of the residence resulted in the seizure of cannabis marijuana, cannabis resin, cocaine, and approximately $2000.00 in Canadian Currency. Upon execution of the search warrant, police also located a cannabis marijuana grow operation in the basement of the residence.

The controlled substances seized have a potential street value of approximately $31,000.00. The property seized has a value of approximately $2000.00.

Charged: 1) Jean PITRE
Date of Birth: 26 February 1961
Address: 61 Rose Street,
Hearst , ON

Offences: 1 count of Possession of a Controlled Substance - Section 4(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Court: 1st appearance – 08 March 2006.
Release: Promise to Appear

Charged: 2) Richard BOUCHER (Calrisian)?
Date of Birth: 31 May 1956
Address: 316 Prince Street
Hearst, ON

Offences: 1 count of Production of a Controlled Substance – Cannabis Marijuana - Section 7(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
1 count of Possession of a Controlled Substance – Cannabis Marijuana - for the Purpose of Trafficking - Section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Court: 1st appearance – 08 March 2006.
Release: Promise to Appear and Undertaking.

Charged: 3) Jeremy BOUCHER
Date of Birth: 15 December 1985
Address: 316 Prince Street
Hearst, ON

Offences: 1 count of Production of a Controlled Substance – Cannabis Marijuana – Section 7(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
1 count of Possession of a Controlled Substance - Cannabis Marijuana - Section 4(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
1 count of Possession of a Controlled Substance – Cannabis Marijuana - for the Purpose of Trafficking - Section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
1 count of Possession of a Controlled Substance – Cocaine – Section 4(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Court: 1st appearance – 08 March 2006.
Release: Promise to Appear and Undertaking

Charged: 4) Julie MACAMEAU
Date of Birth: 05 September 1966
Address: 316 Prince Street
Hearst, ON

Offences: 1 count of Production of a Controlled Substance – Cannabis Marijuana – Section 7(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
1 count of Possession of a Controlled Substance - Cannabis Marijuana - Section 4(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
1 count of Possession of a Controlled Substance – Cannabis Marijuana - for the Purpose of Trafficking - Section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Court: 1st appearance – 22 November 2006.
Release: Promise to Appear and Undertaking

Source: ITVNEWS.COM

 

Lastest Update: Feb 13th

At 10.23 pacific, 1.23 a.m. Monday eastern time, its now 120 hours since an "official" statement was forthcoming....
This is a very serious subject and situation, so I will only tolerate posts that are contributions in ideas or credible, intelligent speculation. I've little patience for anything less and will bar the unintelligent or wastes of space (& my time). This impacts on thousands of people potentially, and certainly impacts on High Times Magazine who had an official relationship with Overgrow.com. High Times Magazine should be issuing a statement about what has happened to their official on-line partner.
All pivotal questions remain...
where is he?
what happened?

Source:Cannabis Culture Magazine

Marc 'Emery' that is readers and any others ready to point your fingers,
Who is the enemy? RB or the LEO's & the law? Even if RB is a snitch, (and I do not know if he is or not) he is just another WOD victim not the root cause of the problem. Attacking RB without knowledge of what happened is just not fair, what happened to innocent until proven guilty? It would be like stupid trolls that posted you were guilty of allowing the cops to trace your seed sales to the USA and elsewhere causing many to be arrested.
From the DEA site:
"EMERY is accused of selling millions of dollars of marijuana seeds over the internet, though the mail, and in person to individuals in the United States and across the globe. The DEA, in an investigation of EMERY has traced his seeds to illegal marijuana crops in Indiana, Florida, California, Tennessee, Montana, Virginia, Michigan, New Jersey and North Dakota. An estimated 75% of the seeds EMERY sells are transported to the United States."
But does this mean that you helped the DEA??? I doubt it. But uninformed trolls could certainly interpret the DEA web site to mean this. They did bust growers using your seeds, the question is did your posted seeds to the USA lead the pigs to the growers, or did the pigs bust US grows and also found evidence that they had bought seeds from you?
We all need to remember that there is only one enemy, it is the police and the laws they use to jail Cannabis people. To attack RB or any other pro Cannabis person that is fighting the police and the Cannabis laws is just not right, at the very least until they have had a chance to say their side of the story. No one knows what happen yet to RB and even you have changed your ideas several times, why not just wait until the truth comes out?
People wonder why Cannabis has been illegal for 60 years, I say if we don't even know who to fight we will never win the fight. Trashing RB or people trashing you when you were busted is just what the pigs want, and here you and others are doing their job for them,

SHAME ON ANYONE THAT FORGETS WHO THE REAL ENEMY IS. -LOGICAL

Source:Cannabis Culture Magazine

A self righteous prick...who is always right

Folks I see that you are all a little tired of the OG thing. But that does not mean you need to rain on anyones paraid. This is why we as humans are afraid to say what we want to unless we are being critical of anothers comments. Why don't we let go of this attitude and show the people that really matter the critical conjecture. Not fighting amungst ourselves while there is a new, stronger, ...REAL enemy on the horizon. Am I the only one who realizes the conservatives got elected? The time to unite is now...now more then ever put the bitching aside. And this includes the holier then thow OG mods and admins. A faithful OG supporter...and since I read my first HT mag, and found out about CC, a faithful Emery supporter. A self righteous prick...who is always right,
Peco

'disabled, possibly by law enforcement'

If you google " overgrow .com IP security" those cache pages are not available, but most other aspects of the overgrow .com can be seen in cache format. It has been brought to my attention that this may mean that was disabled, possibly by law enforcement.

Silence is tantamount to collaboration
Mark Emery
Cannabis Culture
Feb 17th 2006

If he's been arrested, as that story goes, he was investigated, and if he was investigated
it means he was probably"raided"and that means seed orders or information was seized. Now it may not mean that is what happened, but I've been raided enough to know how a raid and investigations work, 6 times so I am fairly familiar with this thing. And in every investigation, they finalize it by a seizure of material to corroborate the investigation.
Silence, considering the nature of this business, is tantamount to collaboration because tens of thousands of people (urged on by myself, Gypsy Nirvana, and others) are going to shut up shop, get out of the grow biz, stop growing. Baghdadlian has obligations to communicate whats happening, even under personal pain.

Feb 18th 2006

A small American newspaper in the Gannett chain is releasing a story on Friday that comes to a different conclusion about the fate of overgrow.com, The writer interviewed myself, Baghdadlian's mom, and theres some new information in there that only deepens the mystery. It will cause others to seek out what happened. Mark Emery

Marc Emery working with the Authorities CC OG and CW IP’s were logged?

Jodie Ramsay posted the following lengthy post from a secret source to help explain what is going on with OverGrow and Cannabis World. We have included the post in whole due to the short lifespan of many CanCult post. The story rambles on like a poorly written Marc Emery Black Ops Press Release. The short of it being a mystery friend collects $50,000.00 to assist RC, no strings attached, serious money and so the story goes Marc Emery unsurprisingly turning out to Jodie’s and our hero. Full Blog...

Lastest Update: Feb 19th

Hratch Baghdadlian

By Leif M. Wright

Phoenix Staff Writer
Muskogee Daily Phoenix

GreenThum43215: Hey, are you the Phoenix guy?

LeifMWright: Yes. Who’s this?

GreenThum43215: You interested in an internet story?

LeifMWright: I’m all ears.

GreenThum43215: Have you ever heard of overgrow.com?

That Internet chat began the weirdest column I’ve ever undertaken, one full of international intrigue, secret marijuana gardens, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Drug Enforcement Administration, a shady character with an Armenian name, a former movie actor turned marijuana seed dealer and tens of thousands of freaked-out potheads who started what I call the Marijuana Bean Field Wars.
Overgrow.com was the world’s largest marijuana cultivation Web site, and possibly the largest single marketplace of illegal ideas in the history of the world. The site taught growers the ins and outs of the plant and how to increase their yields and ostensibly increase the THC content. THC is the chemical believed to cause the “high” of marijuana.
At its peak before Jan. 31, Overgrow.com had more than 100,000 active members — a massive amount for all but the largest web sites, and certainly for one that exchanged information that is illegal in most places.
Jan. 31, the site disappeared. Poof. Up in smoke, you might say.
It had warned users a couple of days earlier that it would be undergoing server upgrades, so expect some outages. So no one panicked.
A day later, the site was still gone. Potheads, who are notoriously paranoid already, began to wig out.
What if the site had been busted? Would members be subject to prosecution based on the information they had shared on the site? Had authorities been watching the whole time, building up information so they could attack?

The war begins

GreenThum43215: A lot of people around here are freaking out. Probably an understatement.
I started searching the Internet for information about Overgrow.com. I found a slew of forums and dozens of sites repeating the same news: Overgrow.com and its parent site, Heaven’s Stairway, had been shut down, their Canadian owner arrested, his house raided and his family jailed.
Heaven’s Stairway was a seed distribution company. Marijuana growers call the seeds “beans.” Heaven’s Stairway, according to Canadian pot activist Marc Emery, had to be the largest seed merchant in North America, selling cannabis seeds all across Canada and the United States, and probably to other countries, too.
The stories on the Internet didn’t answer some key questions. Were the Web sites shut down by Canadian authorities, or were they, as Emery’s own bust nine months earlier, done in cooperation with the DEA?
Who was the mysterious owner of the sites, and what happened to him? Was he in jail? Was he out? Was he even alive?
What happened to the records of his seed business and the logs on his site that could possibly lead police to those who frequented the site?
Internet forums were atwitter with the details — or lack of them.
It seems the sites were owned by a Richard Calrisian in Montreal.
But later, it seemed “Calrisian” had been an alias. His real name was Richard Baghdadlian. And later, it seemed “Richard” was an alias, too. His real name, they asserted, was Hratch Baghdadlian.
No one seemed to be able to find any official records of his arrest, or even of an investigation.
That, the growers seemed unified in believing, was even more ominous. If the cops had busted Baghdadlian but hadn’t arrested him, it could be that they were still investigating — or worse, Baghdadlian was cooperating with them, singing like a canary, selling out seed customers, seed merchants and growers all over the continent.

I called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Ottawa.

“We don’t confirm or deny if there is an ongoing investigation,” said Sgt. Nathalie Dechenes, spokesman for the RCMP. “So we wouldn’t tell you either way. I don’t know if we even have authority to shut down Web sites.”
So I called Emery, who was busted nine months ago and is facing extradition to the United States on charges of selling marijuana seeds in the U.S.
“I’m facing 31 years in a maximum security federal prison,” Emery said. “It seems to me if Baghdadlian was facing the same thing, he might have started cooperating if they offered to drop the investigation in the U.S. and keep him in Canada.”
Emery had run a seed company in competition with Heaven’s Stairway. When he was busted, his computers were seized (“Nothing was on them,” he said), and his clients in the United States started receiving blue sheets of paper asking them to confirm orders they had placed with his company.
“It was essentially an effort to try to get them to incriminate themselves,” he said. “But most were smart enough to hit my Web site and find out it was the DEA and not us sending those notices out.”
Meanwhile, several cannabis-related sites were breaking out into full civil war over the Overgrow debacle.
On one side was a fomer movie actor who had had a bit part in a Jean-Claude VanDamme flick and now was calling himself “Gypsy Nirvana.” He claimed to have spoken with “RC,” which was a pseudonym for Baghdadlian (growers seem to be big on initials and acronyms).
RC, Nirvana assured everyone, had been arrested, but he was out on bail and he had shut down the servers when he learned of the impending raid — everyone’s information was safe.
Dissenters began to surface, however, saying Nirvana had a profit motive in mind; he wanted Heaven’s Stairway’s seed business.
On the other side was someone calling himself “Plural of Mongoose,” who apparently commanded great respect in the growing community. He also claimed to have spoken with RC, who had told him several lies, some of which, combined with a friend being busted, led him to believe RC was cooperating with the authorities.
Caught in the middle was Emery, whose own case had generated a lot of publicity, and who is loved by about half the growing community and violently hated by the other half. Emery’s initial statement on the matter had been that Baghdadlian, tired of the seed business, had decided it was time to bail, so he shut up shop and took off to greener pastures, no pun intended.
The battle raged on in Internet boards with Nirvana accusing Emery of being a jerk for revealing Baghdadlian’s name and phone number on his own site.
Others said Baghdadlian was the jerk for leaving his business partners high and dry, wondering if they could be busted at any time based on information from his servers.

No bust, no investigation, mom says

I called a number given on one site for Baghdadlian. A woman answered and gave her name as “Mrs. Baghdadlian.”
She confirmed that Hratch is her son and that he was the proprietor of Heaven’s Stairway and Overgrow.com.
“Nothing has happened, there is nothing right now,” she said in an Armenian accent. “He has not been arrested. There is no investigation.”
I asked her if Baghdadlian had shut the servers down himself. She started stuttering.
“Um,” she said. “I don’t think I can say anything more than this.”
I asked if she knew where I could reach him to talk to him. She said she did not.
“Wow,” Emery said when I told him about the conversation. “That sure lends credence to the idea that he took the money and ran.”
It’s possible that Baghdadlian had noticed an increased amount of government servers hitting his sites, saw the writing on the wall and bailed. Emery agreed it was possible.
“Before I was raided, about six weeks before, there was a huge Department of Justice focus on our Web site,” he said. “Our server logs revealed their IP addresses and we were able to do a whois on them and find out where the hits were coming from.”
Taking the money and running would explain Baghdadlian’s silence — and the silence of law enforcement, which had thrown a big media party when they busted Emery, patting themselves very publicly on the back for such a large takedown.

What does it mean to you?

The bottom line is those who were doing business with Baghdadlian and Emery were breaking the law if they were doing it in the United States — they took a tremendous risk to break the law, and they are likely wise to be worried.
Doing that business over the Internet may have given people a false sense of security, since the Internet allows people to feel “anonymous.” In the marijuana growing community, the disappearance of Overgrow has made them rudely aware that Internet anonymity is an illusion.
For law enforcement, if there was no bust, they may still benefit from Baghdadlian’s disappearance. Growers all over the Internet were proclaiming that they were done — they were shutting their operations down for fear “LEO” would come get them based on information obtained from Baghdadlian’s debacle.
The net gain for law enforcement is a new paranoia in the cannabis-growing world — and fewer people growing, which means shorter supply and less headache for “LEO.”
The average, law-abiding citizen can take a good message away from the mess, too, though. The message:
“You’re never anonymous,” Emery said. “It’s impossible. Governments are investing huge amounts of money to monitor what’s going on on the Internet. If they’re interested in knowing something, they’ll get it.”
Protecting yourself over the Internet — even in legitimate business — should take top priority. You may never have thought about breaking a law yourself, but your information is scattered all over the Internet, and those with less scruples than you can easily gain access to it and use it to defraud you.
Be careful. The Internet is still a rough new frontier, much like Oklahoma was in the Land Run years. You may not be facing droughts and maurading bandits, but you face less-than-honest people who will take your information and use it to hurt you.
“Never do business with anyone who won’t give you a real name,” Emery said.
More importantly, never do online business with a company you haven’t thoroughly seen to be trustworthy. Even big companies suffer from “phishing,” where people will pretend to be the big companies and request personal information from you, which is later used to defraud you.
For those doing illegal business over the Internet, my advice is this: Just don’t.

You can reach Leif M. Wright at 684-2906 or lmwright@muskogeephoenix.com.
muskogeephoenix.com

WHAT REALY HAPPENED by Mark Emery

SOURCE CANNABIS CULTURE :23/02/2006

Here's my COMPLETE GUESS of a timeline:

Late December, early January: Baghdadlian is alerted to an increased number of Canadian government (and perhaps Department of Justice) hits on either Overgrow, Heaven's Stairway, Cannabis World or all three. He maybe even got a bogus order or two from some government source. He knew the gig was up. * (Because Baghdadlian didn't renew some seed orders since summer, this event may have happened much earlier)
A day or two later: Baghdadlian decides it's time to bail. He's made a boatload of money on the seed business, but he has a valuable property on his hands in the Web businesses. Selling, however lucrative, might take too long and alert people to his intentions, which would mean he might not make a clean getaway. He does the math. If he delays a few seed orders shipping, he can keep the money and make up for the lost opportunity of selling Overgrow, to which he may only own negligible portions anyway.
January 31: Bandwidth cost counting begins anew tomorrow. If he pays today's bandwidth bill, he can keep the servers alive for a possible later sale, after he's safely out of the country. But keeping the servers alive and running isn't an option. Bandwidth is too expensive. Baghdadlian, having posted upgrade notices days earlier, shuts the servers down, tells family and friends to keep quiet. Gets the hell out of Dodge.
Early February: People start calling Baghdadlian, maybe even a few get through. Some get a bullshit story about him being arrested. Anything to buy time. If they know he's out of the country right now, they'll start looking for him, and some may even be owed enough money that they would do something bad. Old Pink and Gypsy Nirvana (among others) believe Baghdadlian's story. He may even have told them that he can't get on the Internet because of bail conditions. They, knowing as little about law enforcement procedures as he does, believe him and tell the world.
Mid-February: At some point, after bazillions of holes are poked through the story by forum posters, it becomes clear to Gypsy Nirvana that Baghdadlian is lying his ass off. Nirvana, being the good businessman that he is, sees dollar signs. Heaven's Stairway is gone for good, he sees. His seed company will benefit. Not only that, but Overgrow is gone for good. If he can slip in and maybe even duplicate the functionality of Overgrow, he can get its business, too, which while killing his bandwidth will also bring in a built-in base of trusting seed customers. He starts moving behind the scenes to do what he can to get Overgrow or at least some of its data. Meanwhile, Old Pink also doubts some of Baghdadlian's story, but he still believes its core; he believes in Baghdadlian. Not wanting the hard reality to be true, he does what most religious folks do: he starts making excuses for Baghdadlian, even making shit up along the way to defend his friend.

So far, that's what I think happened. Subject to change as more information becomes available.

Money talks and bullshit rules

I feel so clean. I always knew and said that Overgrow/Cannabisworld/Gypsy Nirvana were sacks of shit run by lying, slandering, anti-activist, anti-legalization exploiters. And I am glad they are gone and that these crooks screwed the people who made it all possible, the miscreants who went to those sites. Overgrow, Cannabisworld, Baghdadlian and Gypsy Nirvana were sewers of degradation and exploitation, propped up by thousands who figured 'who cares if we trash Emery's reputation gratuitously for years, theres some good grow advice here'. Every creep in the business had a shingle at one of those three sites. OG'ers and Scamabisworld, welcome to ICMAG.com .Money talks and bullshit rules. How true Mark!!

To be continued....................

FEBRUARY 27TH 2006 by Marc Scott Emery

'nothing travels faster than paranoia'

On January 31,grow-information websites overgrow.com, cannabisworld.com and seed selling website hempqc.com (Heaven's Stairway) went off-line without explanation.
Overgrow.com was the most popular website in the world for marijuana cultivators and aficionados. Both overgrow and cannabisworld had extensive commercial tie-ins with dozens of seed distribution outfits. There was no notice anywhere about the fate off these three sites. They simply went off-line with no explanation.
The next day, I called around to various businesses and asked, 'What's up with the site where your company is promoted?' and I was told " server maintenance for a few days."
With no notice or announcement, I thought that foolish business. In this cannabis world, nothing travels faster than paranoia.
Then one of the seed companies that sponsor cannabisworld called me to say, " RC (the owner of the three sites) may have just cut and run. He was having some trouble with Hell's Angels or some kind of trouble like that."
Indeed, as February 1st came and passed, deep concern in the online cannabis world grew exponentially.
Shortly afterward, ICMAG.com, owned by a Glen Foster, commonly known as Gypsy Nirvana, had announced that Richard Calrisian (real name Hratch Baghdadlian of Montreal, Quebec) had been "busted" for seed sales and that he would be releasing a "statement" shortly. That was about 20 days ago and no official statement from the owner of Heaven's Stairway seeds and OG/CW has ever been forthcoming.
Ten days passed and speculation was rampant, but verifiable facts were few. CannabisCulture.com Online wrote by February 5 that Baghdadlian had indeed taken the money and run. Baghdadlian would have had about $250,000 in funds for seeds, services, advertising that he no longer is able to provide service for. Indeed, we received reports early on that credibly claimed Baghdadlian (Armenian name) had gone to Greece where he has standing, and to where he recently bought land. His family is not commenting.
After the revelation about Richard Calrisian's real name, all the jails and court dockets were checked but no confirmation came up in any way that implied Hratch Baghdadlian had been arrested or charged with anything. Nor were police boasting about any "arrest" of this prominent seed vendor and website proprietor.
Thousands of refugees from Overgrow.com and cannabisworld.com scattered to various existing cannabis websites, causing upheavel at each place. Scraps of news from Feb. 1 to Feb. 20 would show up on websites like planetganja.com, icmag.com and cannabisculture.com. Thousands of former OG'ers and CW'ers were being pulled all over the net in search of the "truth" or failing that, at least a new virtual home.
ICMAG.com, a website run by former Seedsdirect.com seedmeister Glen Foster (Gypsy Nirvana), claimed that Gypsy (Foster), and others intimate with Overgrow.com (Old Pink, Lothar, others) were in constant phone contact with Baghdadlian. They claimed every day for over 10 days that Baghdadlian would be releasing a statement about his bust. ICMAG.com was promoting the idea that Baghdadlian was busted January 31/Feb. 1st by Quebec police for vague charge of importing/exporting seeds. Then it was reported that Baghdadlian was arrested Feb. 1st and released Feb. 7 on some large bail for this vague and unverified by any source charge, ostensibly about importing/exporting seeds. No boasts by police and no traceable court files make this claim unverifiable, as it is to this day.
Then on February 15, a new player enters the drama. Apparently, Glen Foster of Gypsy Nirvana, split up with his wife a few years back and in that split, Mrs. Nirvana hooked up with a fellow who has been holding court at planetganja.com, called Plural of Mongoose.
This Plural of Mongoose claimed that he in fact has verifiable proof of a claim to ownership of 50% of overgrow.com. He further claimed that Hratch Baghdadlian and Glen Foster had organized a murder-for-hire plot whereby Baghdadlian & Foster together would hire someone (the HA connection?) to murder this new man of Seedsdirect mistress the (former) Mrs. Nirvana. Real names of these two will be forthcoming shortly.
ICMAG.com had originally been the most popular website for overgrow and cannabisworld refugees, but as the deceptions and lies piled up at ICMAG.com hundreds of new "members" of ICMAG.com were infuriated to learn that the reason OG is gone is because of greed and sordid criminality, not a seed bust as was originally stated.
It is believed thousands of grows were pulled down across the world when ICMAG.com reported that Foster, Old Pink and others had "talked" to Baghdadlian and "confiirmed" that Heaven's Stairway seed company had been busted on January 31 and that police had conducted a search of Baghdadlian's premises for up to 48 hours. It was presumed by all that this meant records, data, paper trails had exposed many people to possible police probes.
As we corroboate any "facts", we will add them to this box at the top of this thread.
The most current news is that as of today, Gypsy Nirvana, AKA Glen Foster, has resigned from his businesses in Amsterdam under a looming threat of lawsuits to be launched this week against him accusing him of attempted murder, theft of money from seedsdirect.com and a host of malfeasance claims.
In all this, High Times Magazine, who enjoyed a very cozy relationship on the forums of overgrow.com, has a new scandal to attach to its equally sordid and tarnished image. After having exposed thousands of readers and advertisers to criminal investigations like Operation Green Merchant, Operation Pipedreams, Operation Headhunter from 1987 to 2003, and never informing their readers about these investigations once HT became aware of them, now HT finds itself allied with a flim-flam man who has made off with the loot, the data, and may well be involved in a murderous squeeze play of a rival.

Source: Cannabis Culture

 

February 28th 2006 by Goddess Supreme

On Monday, February 27, it was confirmed by myself ( Goddess Supreme ) that charges of some kind were laid by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted police) against Richard Baghdadlian and 6 others on February 7, 2006, where Baghdadlian and others had bail determined.
This confirmation was done using the information above
Richard Baghdadlian, birthdate: Sept. 13, 1967
This info was obtained by phone at 514-393-2032, the Office of the Criminal Courts of Quebec. This bureaucracy though is not that helpful, they said that any documents or further information would have to be obtained in person in any registry office in Quebec. So we are trying to get someone in Montreal at this time to check these details out.
We have copies of the charges from the registry office.
The following people are charged with conspiracy, manufacture of marijuana, distribution of pot (seeds) and cocaine, and possession with intent to distribute, CDSA schedule One and Schedule Two substances. It does not define whether these charges are for seeds or for actual controlled substances.

The accused are:

Richard Hratch Baghdadlian
Maria Christina Civitillo
Geogfrey Chan
Natalie Baghdadlian
Manuel Bento Fernandes
Christopher Almond

All 6 were arrested January 31. Search warrants were executed on various premises at the same time.
These charges confirm that RCMP, Canada's national police, have a vast collection of data and evidence seized from Baghdadlian and his operations. This has to be regarded as a security situation for any seed banks that did business through Heaven's Stairway, Baghdadlian, Cbay, and any growers that may have ordered seeds from Heaven's Stairway in January. The silence from anyone connected with these charges laid 3 weeks ago is eerie.

Source Cannabis Culture

LATEST INFO FROM CANNABIS CULTURE

MARCH 1ST 2006

The RCMP dismantles an international drug distribution network on the internet ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE March 1st 2006 MONTREAL, Feb. 28 /CNW Telbec/ - The members of the Marihuana Grow Operations Enforcement Team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police concluded their first major operation when they uncovered a Montreal based criminal organization involved in the trafficking, importation and exportation of cannabis seeds, as well as in conspiring for the purpose of cannabis cultivation via the Internet. This operation was launched in November 2004 under the name "Courriel" and culminated with the seizure of 200,000 cannabis seeds and the arrest of seven persons. Project "Courriel" revealed that Richard Hratch BAGHDADLIAN, 38, from Marsan Street in Montreal, and six other persons operated the Heaven's Stairway company. This company was on the web claiming to be the North American supplier for indoor and outdoor cannabis production. The cybercompany Heaven's Stairway used the Internet sites hempqc.com, cannabisworld.com, overgrow.com, eurohemp.com, cannabisseeds.com, and cannabisbay.com. These sites were used to order cannabis seeds online and obtain information on cannabis cultivation. These Internet sites also suggested ways to outsmart the police. Richard Hratch BAGHDADLIAN was the instigator, head and main beneficiary of the illicit company Heaven's Straiway. The other six accused acted as couriers and performed other duties for the company. They are Geoffrey CHAN, 33, Maria Cristina CIVITILLO, 32, Natalie BAGHDADLIAN, 40, Manuel Bento FERNANDES, 45, Christopher ALMOND, 38, and Teresa RODRIGUES, 39. They all live in Montreal except Christopher ALMOND who lives in Ville Saint-Laurent. The organization processed approximately 30 orders of cannabis seeds a day averaging $100 each. The seeds were sent to clients by regular mail. The seven people are facing 49 charges under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and the Criminal Code of Canada. The offences were committed in Quebec, Canada, North America, the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world between March 12, 1998 and January 31, 2006. Nine searches were carried out during the week of January 30, 2006 in order to gather evidence that criminal activities had been committed. The searches were conducted in Montreal and Laval, as well as in the residences of three of the accused, a business, three post office boxes, a vehicle and a safe-deposit box. These searches led to the seizure of 200,000 cannabis seeds, more than $183,362 in US currencies and $14,000 in Canadian currencies, both in cash and postal money orders, three one-kilogram gold bricks, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, a Mazda RX8 and many purchase orders. Since the searches were conducted, 272 orders have been intercepted by the police. The amount of seeds seized during the searches could have made it possible to operate approximately 500 cannabis greenhouses of 400 plants each, which represent 42 million joints sold on the street. The seven accused are liable to 10 years' imprisonment. Since the possession of cannabis seeds is illegal under Schedule II of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, clients of the network could also receive a visit from the police. It should be noted that Project "Courriel", a first in Canada, is the fruit of the work of the new Marihuana Grow Operations Enforcement Team. This new drug enforcement team is one of the seven teams established by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police across Canada in 2004 to combat the scourge of marihuana. The main objectives of these teams are to interdict drugs before they arrive in our communities and to target and destroy the infrastructure and the networks used by criminal organizations involved in marihuana production. These organizations constitute a threat to public safety and well- being.     For further information: Communications Office, (514) 939-8308

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