Robert Vela Rocky Fake cannabis cultivation business opportunity Watsonvile CA

I was young and naive and just getting my feet on the ground finacially after college. Robert was introduced to me through someone I was working with and I was then in his sphere of influence. At the time I had just paid off my student debt and my car and had my biggest year yet in business. I felt like I was on a roll. 

Robert pitched to me a business opportunity in the cannabis cultivation space where we would be partners on a legal grow and have an opportunity within this new business to buy into a partnership with a local dispensary that was in fincial hardship for pennys on the dollar since they were on hard times. With our combined business experience we were essentially going to flip our crop to the retail market for a vertical margin. this was supposedly all legal and backed up by licensing and legit business investment. It sounded great and I was ready to take a risk and put in the work. 

I toured a few of his farms and he just needed some money so that he could get through to the next level; and I was going to be a part of that. So I wrote a 6 figure check to his LLC with the promise of a 40% return within 3 months after he had flipped the product he had on hand to the buyers he had from LA and Northern California. The process was supposed to be that we would partner on this product flip and then after the trust was settled we could invest further into our future business plan. 

In retrospect this should not have been a suprise but again, naive, new to success, I was optomistic and hopeful. Months went by and I would call him daily, then it was weekly, and then monthly and there is always another story or another problem or a macro economic factor that was cushing his business and he couldnt pay me back. Then it morphed into trying to tie me into the next deal. He wanted to put me on a real estate flip he had in mind and that never materialized.

This guy is a constant string of lies and deciet. Everything that comes out of his fast talking mouth is garbage and absolutely not to be trusted.

At the end of the day I took him to court, he never showed up, and I won a judgement. However to this day more than 3 years after the incident I still do not have my money back. 

DON'T BE ME! If you have business or contact with Robert Vela - drop it immediately, dont sell him your house, dont buy his product, dont listen to his lies, just tell everyone he knows and everyone you know that he is a con artist and that he should not be trusted.