Recent Posts in Marijuana Category
Posted on May 16, 2012 By admin
Federal agents said a drug smuggling case in which TSA screeners allowed luggage with drugs inside through checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport represents a serious security breach. A man ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2012 By admin
Long Beach, California police arrested three men after finding drugs and a marijuana-growing operation at a home that later caught fire. Police were on the 1900 block of Caspian Avenue, searching for ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2012 By admin
A routine traffic stop led Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to an estimated $1 million worth of marijuana and nine arrests. LA Sheriff's Deputies pulled over Harry Kaladjian, 29, at about ...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By admin
drug crime A Los Angeles Police Department narcotics squad has made an end-run around the city's fumbling efforts to regulate medical marijuana . They have shut down every marijuana dispensary in ...
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Posted on Jan 23, 2012 By admin
San Bernardino County district attorney’s office requested a court-approved injunction to crack down on a Rancho Cucamonga street gang that uses the downtown area as its gang turf. The ...
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Posted on Jan 17, 2012 By admin
An investigation that lasted for a month resulted in five arrests and the seizure of more than $200,000 in marijuana in Orange County, California. Anthony Mave, of San Clemente, was arrested in ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2011 By admin
Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputies have arrested three men for the armed robbery of a medical marijuana dispensary in West Hollywood, California. The men entered Farmacy-Medical Marijuana Dispensary ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Jerry Kastler
Three men were arrested after the United States Border Patrol said was an attempt to smuggle over 1,400 pounds of marijuana worth about $729,000 into the United States aboard a 25-foot panga boat. Two ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2011 By admin
In a decision that could have immediate fallout for medical marijuana dispensaries, a state appeals court has ruled that California law allows cities to ban the marijuana dispensary stores. The ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, in the second phase of Operation Supernova, an investigation into Ventura County’s largest street gang, three gang members have been arrested on federal drug ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2011 By admin
A medical marijuana advocacy group has sued the United States attorney general and other federal prosecutors in Northern California. They are asking a federal court to stop raids and threats of ...
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Posted on Oct 3, 2011 By admin
United States Border Patrol Agents intercepted a tractor-trailer rig that was loaded with 14 tons of marijuana heading for the Los Angeles area. This seizure is believed to be one of the largest ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By admin
Three men were arrested near a San Diego, California, beach as they attempted to smuggle over 700 pounds of marijuana into the United States from Mexico. This latest attempt represents just another ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2011 By admin
In Compton, California, federal prosecutors announced that eight people were arrested and more than a ton of drugs were seized after a investigation discovered two national drug trafficking groups. A ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2011 By admin
In Fresno, California, a United States Attorney and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent announced that Phousangkhy Phanthadeth, of Fresno, pleaded guilty to conspiring to manufacture , ...
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Posted on Aug 1, 2011 By admin
State and federal agents spanned out across six Northern California counties recently in an attack on marijuana farms in United States forests. Approximately 460,000 marijuana plants were destroyed ...
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Posted on Jul 18, 2011 By admin
According to federal agents, nine people have been arrested relating to three separate maritime smuggling incidents along the Southern California coast over the past month. Among those charged in ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By admin
The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department arrested dozens of gang members who have controlled drug trafficking for decades in southwest Los Angeles. LAPD officers and FBI agents carrying more than a ...
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Posted on May 4, 2011 By admin
Many Westside gang members were arrested on suspicion of firearms and narcotics offenses observed at a Venice storefront run by Federal undercover agents. Federal agents with the federal Bureau of ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2011 By admin
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies seized an estimated $1 million worth of marijuana in a La Habra Heights home after responding to a report of two men, one bleeding, the other in possession of a ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2011 By admin
A Los Angeles man was sentenced to 54 years to life in a California prison for the attempted murder of a Laguna Niguel marijuana dispensary owner during a botched armed robbery in 2008. Arsenio ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By admin
Medical marijuana shops will have to shut their doors in January or face a fine, Orange County officials said. The future of Sunset Beach's medical marijuana dispensaries has been hazy for months as ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By admin
A judge handed Los Angeles a setback in its faltering drive to limit the number of medical marijuana dispensaries, granting a preliminary injunction that bars the city from enforcing key provisions in ...
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