Narcotic task force and child services steal children from California medical marijuana patients
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
On the morning of September 29, 2011, around 8 AM, the Butte Interagency Narcotic Task Force (BINTF) out of Butte, California, forced their way into the home of Jayme Walsh and his wife Daisy Bram.
The officers then arrested the two parents and with the help of Child Protective Services (CPS) and the Child Services Division of Butte County, seized their children.
Zeus, a 3-week-old suckling newborn was forcibly removed from the arms of his mother, and along with his 15-mont-old brother Thor, they were both placed in the home of a stranger, where they remained for four months.
You can hear the disturbing audio of the arrest in the video below. You can hear Jayme Walsh trying to calm Daisy Bram down while they are taking her children, which is clearly quite distressing to her for obvious reasons.
To clarify a bit of the audio, Walsh says that the charge of possession of ammunition by a felon was the result of police discovering a single old shotgun shell which was left on the property by the occupants. Walsh says that the charges were dismissed and that he is being regarded as a “felon” for a prior conviction some 12 years ago.
Walsh contends that prior to this quite disturbing incident, he “had not even gotten so much as a speeding ticket in years.”
Neither Thor nor Zeus had ever spent time away from their parents, so one can assume that this was likely quite a traumatic experience for the two children.
On September 7, 2011, three weeks before the BINTF and CPS burst into their home and stole their children, two deputies from Butte County Sheriff’s Office trespassed onto a clearly marked private road.
This came after Bram and Walsh had witnessed sheriff’s helicopters fly over their area all summer.
The deputies made their way around a locked and gated driveway and then onto the property of Bram and Walsh’s remote home located somewhere on a mountain in Concow, California.
The deputies claimed they were there for a so-called “compliance check” – which is a nice way to make an end run around probable cause and the entire Fourth Amendment in order to illegally “access to private homes to investigate legal medicinal cannabis gardens for potential arrest and prosecution,” according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Legislation (NORML).
During this “compliance check” one of the deputies assured Walsh that “everything looks okay” and wished him luck with his baby since all of the necessary and appropriate medical records were in order.
Now Bram and Walsh are facing a whopping eight class A felonies, six of which deal with cannabis and two of which relate to alleged child abuse.
While Walsh represented himself and his wife during a preliminary hearing, they are now being represented by Michael Levinsohn and Jen Reeder.
Both charges related to child abuse were dropped, along with one of the charges dealing with cannabis.
This leaves the couple facing five criminal charges in relation to cannabis, although on March 13, Butte County Assistant District Attorney Jeff Greeson re-filed the felony child abuse and misdemeanor child endangerment charges against Bram.
“Considering the felony and misdemeanor charges were dropped, and are now being re-filed after public outcry and the filing for a Grand Jury Investigation, we can come to no other conclusion except this is a retaliatory measure, from the Butte County DA’s office,” Tamara Lujan, NORML Women’s Alliance Community Leader for Butte County, said in a statement.
At no point has there been an attempt by the prosecutors to verify the validity of the couple’s status as qualified medical marijuana patients in the state of California.
Walsh and Bram both have recommendations for medical marijuana from a doctor which are legally recognized in the state of California.
With the federal government continuing to wage a war against medical cannabis and trample all over state’s rights in the process, some individuals at the state level have begun to succumb to the pressure.
This is seen in the case of dispensaries in Los Angeles (which are completely legal under state law, but not federal law), as well as in the case of the University of California, San Francisco kicking out an unimaginably sick patient for using her desperately needed medication, which just happens to be medical marijuana.
After the suffering of Bram, Walsh and their children emerged, other local residents have come forward with their own complaints which are quite similar to those of Bram and Walsh.
These complaints also focus on the BINTF and the Child Services Division of Butte County, which currently leads in the percentage rate of permanent removal of children from parents throughout all California counties.
In response to this trend, the NORML Women’s Alliance (NWA) filed an official request calling for an investigation, including a financial audit, by the Grand Jury in Butte County.
On March 9, the NWA and Butte County residents issued a complaint to the Grand Jury of Butte County requesting that they investigate the County Children Services Division for alleged widespread misconduct and malfeasance.
In the request, which was detailed in a recent press release they cited multiple testimonials directly from people who had been affected by the agency’s actions, as well as various detailed account of the Child Services Division’s questionable activities.
“We thank the Grand Jury for its time, consideration and diligence in pursing our request. Only when government agencies have proper oversight can we as a community rest assured that corruption, abuse and other misdeeds are kept in check and deterred,” Lujan said.
“Together We the People of Butte County and the Grand Jury can make these necessary strides of investigation and oversight to ensure all Butte families are truly served well, and are safe and secure at home,” Lujan added.
Hopefully the Grand Jury will actually do their job and hold these agencies to account while actually serving the people of Butte County.
Unfortunately, in some cases when individuals actually try to do their job – like New York City Police Department Officer Adrian Schoolcraft – they are targeted for harassment and abuse.
INS LINKIf this popular movement in Butte County is successful, I will consider it a major victory (even though it is a relatively small-scale one) and hopefully it will encourage people to become more active at the local level in order to bring more transparency and accountability to government.
Acting at the local level can also be much more effective in pushing back against the increasingly tyrannical federal government, so I will continue to follow the case of Bram and Walsh closely and keep my readers updated.
Please do whatever you can to support their battle and if you happen to be a resident of Butte County, I encourage you to get directly involved in any way possible, even if it is just signing your name to a petition.
If you know of similar battles in your local area, please contact me so I can bring your struggle to a wider national and international audience and hopefully strengthen your cause.
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Madison Ruppert is a Los Angeles-based independent journalist and researcher as well as the founder, owner, administrator and editor of EndtheLie.com. He has no affiliations with any government agencies, political parties, non-governmental organizations, or economic schools. He is available for freelance writing assignments and appearances or interviews in any format. He can be reached by emailing
How can anyone be so sick as to do this to a family over a plant that is less harmful than alcohol which is sold in every mini-market and grocery store? How can they sleep at night? If anything, they should be taking the children from cigarette smokers and alcoholics. They do more damage to their children than medical marijuana patients or even recreational users! Does cannabis make people violent? NO. Does second hand smoke from cannabis give people cancer? NO, especially when vaporized. There are no other particles that it puts out.
Please keep covering this topic more. This is a huge issue for me and it is very wrong that they are doing this.
cps may be about 1-providing children to rich couples who cant reproduce, 2- providing children to pedophiles, and 3-providing victims to satanic cults for ritual sacrifices. i know the third sounds crazy but i know for a fact there are hundreds of cults in america and i’m sure the government knows too. because they are doing nothing about it they must be involved.
Amazing! Whatever influence is behind the decisions of the government, they are systematically taking every single right away from citizens. Problem is that we NEVER understand its detriment until we’re effected by it. STOP ACTING LIKE INDIVIDUALS! WE ARE ONE! EVENTUALLY THE RIGHTS THAT ARE BEING TAKEN FROM ME, WILL EFFECT YOU TOO. SO WHAT EXACTLY ARE WE WAITING FOR? ITS US AGAINST THEM REGARDLESS OF YOUR RACE, CULTURE, RELIGION, etc. My problem are your problem…and yours are mine.
Amazing! Whatever influence is behind the decisions of the government, they are systematically taking every single right away from citizens. Problem is that we NEVER understand its detriment until we’re affected by it. STOP ACTING LIKE INDIVIDUALS! WE ARE ONE! EVENTUALLY THE RIGHTS THAT ARE BEING TAKEN FROM ME, WILL AFFECT YOU TOO. SO WHAT EXACTLY ARE WE WAITING FOR? ITS US AGAINST THEM REGARDLESS OF YOUR RACE, CULTURE, RELIGION, etc. My problems are your problems…and yours are mine.
Butte County, Paradise, Latvian immigrant, brings Russian children to USA for life saving operations. Why?
Butte County => pedo ring recruitment center.
By the Brezhnev era, after tens of millions had been exterminated in the gulag, many Russians lamented that “submissiveness had softened our brains to such a degree” that resistance was no longer possible. All of this could have been avoided, Solzhenitsyn contended, if resistance had begun “at the moment of arrest itself.”
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
CPS- where Nazis hide out. the visceral disgust and loathing I have for these people is impossible to describe. Little Eichmanns, every one.
CPS takes children for money. They are paid a “bounty” by the State for each child they hold in “Protective Custody”
As many millions of innocent foreigners as Americans have killed, all the while making up endless B$ excuses like ‘I’m just doing my job’ & ‘It was the government, not me”, there is NOTHING that could ever happen 2 Americans that they don’t already deserve 10,000X over. What is even more disgusting than the government stealing American children is the Americans over on the other side of the world murdering countless innocent people who never even attacked us. It’s good Ameicans R so suicidal they have elected an illegal alien communist retard sock puppet of the jew banksters 4 ‘president’, because the world can only B safe if America is rammed down the drain by them, & once Europe is turned under by the bankster trash as well,Russia can take the planet over, because they have plenty of nukes & have recently acquired the will 2 live =)
They take them cause you let them. It is not about the plants, its about protecting their racket by procuring the mind of the next generation. If I can win over the mind of the following generation then I add numbers to my army.
The majority of people taken from there homes later grow up believing they were saved and end up working for the system.
They dont realize they are brainwashed into enslaving another generation to the lasts ideas, which is simply meant to foster an emotional being that thrives on fixing problems through their own suffering. They then thank those responsible for developing there victims mindset.
Simple solutions to simple problems. The entire system is based on how the majority of actors in it react or even act in concert to its maturity.
You work for it, then buy in to it, then slander it. Why wouldnt they come after what you sold them?
Stop certifying your children against the debt.
I really agree to most of the people here!
they should realize that medical marijuana is more beneficial and safety to humans health compared to alcohol and cigarettes that is really available without any question, in any store.
they should make medical marijuana be as legal as those items..
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