Jon was raided again, along with the Sacred Journey store. (Jon does not own that store.)
The reason the raid on Jon was not on the news is because they raided his home and the news reporters didn't know about it.
They took two cars, computers, cameras, bikes, seized the actual house (a tax lien), though the family is still able to live there -- for now.
They raided the house while his wife and two children sat and watched.
They gave him a "drug tax" of $960,000 and gave his wife the same tax -- $960,000, for a total of over $1.8 million.
The tax is for supposedly selling "drugs." The drug in question is a natural weight loss herbal product called Que She.
There wasn't actually any Que She in the house prior to the raid. What happened is the mail-man (probably a fed) knocked on the door with a package. Jon's wife answered. He said she needed to sign for the package. She did. As soon as she took the package they rushed the house -- about 15 of them.
So, they actually delivered the package, gave her the package, then raided the house and gave both her and Jon a "tax" for selling the herbal product in said package. How can they possibly legally do what they did? We don't have any idea.
But, now Jon and his wife supposedly owe the state of Kansas nearly $2 million and Kansas can, and is seizing all of their assets including their home, their cars, their bank accounts -- everything.
This is in addition to the $906,000 drug tax that gave him in February for selling plants that you can buy at Wal-mart. Of course, they dropped those charges (how could they not?), but they kept the drug tax. The drug tax is very real:
http://www.ksrevenue.org/faqs-abcdrugtax.htm Kansas requires drug dealers to buy drug tax stamps. They are supposed to put the stamps on their bags of cocain or marijuana. If the drug dealer does not have the tax stamps on the drug when the drugs are seized, then the state of Kansas issues drug "tax" against the drug dealer. Here is the irony of this particular bogus drug bust. How was Jon supposed to affix the drug stamps to a product that he didn't even have in his possession? What is more, is that Jon was assessed this drug tax, yet he was never physically there. He did not accept the package, was not at the house at all, was not charged with any crimes, yet he is charged with a nearly million $ tax. Go figure.
So, again, they did not charge anyone with any crimes this time. No one is actually charged will selling any drugs, yet they are able to tax them for supposedly selling the drugs that they aren't charged with selling. Try wrapping your mind around that for a moment. And further, they were never in possession of the "drugs" until the feds actually delivered them to the door. And the "drug" in question is just an herbal dietary supplement -- Que She.
I honestly have trouble wrapping my mind around this whole thing. The illogic of this, as well as the probabable illegality of what the feds actually did is truly hard to comprehend.
Seems to me that the feds are very vindictive. They looked like real stupid fools the first time around. Charged him with selling Morning Glory seeds and having plastic jugs (yes that is one of the charges.) Well, everyone with a brain knew that they really screwed up. And they don't like to be made to look foolish. And they never, ever say "Woops. Sorry. Messed up." No, just the opposite, they fight all the harder when they know they are wrong. And they have unlimited resources (your tax dollars). Seems to me they are just plain mean and out to get Jon at any cost. They don't care whose life they destroy in this whole process (like his entire family). This is government at its very worst.
There you go. That is the story. I'll post more when I have more details.
I'd like to point out again that neither Jon or Bouncing Bear owns the Sacred Journey store. The feds though thought Jon owned that store, and they were mistaken. We think they still have the same mistaken belief. There are others that post on various forum such as this, that often make that same mistake.