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Camp Easter Seals could be on the auction block
From Staff Reports
Friday, November 20, 2009 | No comments posted.
Question: What is the status of Camp Easter Seals located in Lakeside (North Tenmile Lake)? The property was seized several years ago by federal agents in a drug raid and has been abandoned for several years. Is the property going to be auctioned or sold at some time by the federal government?
Answer: Camp Easter Seals, as it was known before it became the social hang out for drug conspirators, may come up for auction as soon as spring of 2010.
The 14-acre parcel was sold to Kent Jones and Gregory Sperow in 2002. The two split the property into two 7.65-acre parcels. Jones retained the parcel located on Tenmile Lake, which includes cabins rented, owned, and occupied by their associates, said Mike Nores who manages the property for the U.S. government.
On Sept. 13, 2006, federal agents seized the property during a one-day raid of properties owned by the men in five states, and Jones, Sparrow and their associates were arrested on various drug charges, he said.
A federal indictment said the men and their associates invested as much as $20 million in drug money laundered from cocaine and marijuana trafficking through properties and businesses, including the land in Lakeside. Federal officials said the cartel developed out of a Roseburg-based pot-growing business that go its start in the 1970s.
Sperow, who was from Roseburg, and Jones, who grew up in Days Creek, were sent to federal prison several years ago.
The men used the Lakeside property as a place for social gathering and Nores said very little illegal activity is believe to have taken place on the property.
“On one or two occasions ( a suspect) flew in duffle-bags of marijuana or money to the Lakeside airport,” Nores said.
Today, no one is allowed on the property without permission from John Harrison who is the Asset Forfeiture Coordinator with the IRS. Anyone interested in the property can contact him at 1-970-241-7821, ext. 270.
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Answer: Camp Easter Seals, as it was known before it became the social hang out for drug conspirators, may come up for auction as soon as spring of 2010.
The 14-acre parcel was sold to Kent Jones and Gregory Sperow in 2002. The two split the property into two 7.65-acre parcels. Jones retained the parcel located on Tenmile Lake, which includes cabins rented, owned, and occupied by their associates, said Mike Nores who manages the property for the U.S. government.
On Sept. 13, 2006, federal agents seized the property during a one-day raid of properties owned by the men in five states, and Jones, Sparrow and their associates were arrested on various drug charges, he said.
A federal indictment said the men and their associates invested as much as $20 million in drug money laundered from cocaine and marijuana trafficking through properties and businesses, including the land in Lakeside. Federal officials said the cartel developed out of a Roseburg-based pot-growing business that go its start in the 1970s.
Sperow, who was from Roseburg, and Jones, who grew up in Days Creek, were sent to federal prison several years ago.
The men used the Lakeside property as a place for social gathering and Nores said very little illegal activity is believe to have taken place on the property.
“On one or two occasions ( a suspect) flew in duffle-bags of marijuana or money to the Lakeside airport,” Nores said.
Today, no one is allowed on the property without permission from John Harrison who is the Asset Forfeiture Coordinator with the IRS. Anyone interested in the property can contact him at 1-970-241-7821, ext. 270.
(E-mail I Want to Know questions to news@theworldlink.com.)
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