"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat
Authorities in a northern California county said an 18-month investigation has led to the seizure of up to 500,000 marijuana plants and more than $10 million in cash.
According to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, the bust also included the confiscation of 6 tons of processed marijuana and a cache of weapons, KTVU reported.
Sgt. Ray Kelly of the sheriff’s office said the bust was the largest illegal growing operation in the Bay Area, the television station reported.
“So many plants, we have to use gas-powered hedge trimmers,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Twitter post on Thursday.
Kelly said the operation involved more than a dozen locations in the East Bay area, including Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward and Castro Valley, KTVU reported.
The deputy said that 500,000 square feet of commercial real estate was used to house the operation, adding that the cost of renting such a large amount of space would cost several million dollars per month, the television station reported.
“Some of the locations had corporate style furniture, break rooms. They had wine, refrigerators with thousand-dollar bottles of wine that they would just sip on,” Kelly told KTVU. “Televisions, vending machines, break rooms.”
Kelly said the average size of each location was as much as 70,000 square feet.
“There’s CO2 being pumped into these rooms, HEPA filters, filtering the air going out so you’re not getting the massive odor,” Kelly told KGO-TV.
A warehouse in San Leandro was raided Thursday morning, the East Bay Times reported. Deputies found 10,000 high-grade marijuana plants, Kelly said. No arrests were made at the site, the newspaper reported.
Kelly said at one site, it took 12 tractor-trailers to transport the seized marijuana to a Central Valley site for destruction, the Times reported. The total amount of plants and materials seized weighed 37.6 tons, he added.
“This is an organization operating outside the law and the protocols of governance of marijuana in California, unsanctioned and making millions in profits,” Kelly said during a news conference. “What’s crazy about this is had they applied for proper permits and fees and paid all their licenses and tax fees, we wouldn’t be here.
“This is one of the largest grows we’ve ever seen in recent memory. It’s a massive operation.”
I pray every one of those pigs get skinned alive.
ReplyDelete6:19 go back to narcofootage
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Delete6:19 It's not going to work in here. Neg therm gets your azz in trouble. I am greatly happy our tax dollars at work.
DeleteSadly there’s no proof they didn’t end up in the cannabis club, that’s a lot of money the sheriffs and the county ended up with.
DeleteI'm glad. This is right in my back yard. This is massive organizied crime. No, thank you!
ReplyDeleteMassive organized crime in the east bay where ??
DeleteGod damn that operation was huge
ReplyDeleteYou are the pig if you think that way regardless of who you think the pigs are!!
ReplyDeleteExcellent 👍 catch of contraband. The money is forfeited. There will be some heads rolling for this loss.
ReplyDeleteThey also found 40 Rolex's and a cache of arms. I have heard, but not confirmed that they are Chinese. Where would they get millions for equipment. I'll bet there is a cartel involved in all of this!!
ReplyDeleteSomeone is feeding you false info
Delete10 million in cash but not one person caught?
ReplyDeleteThat's odd..
Mexico 1
DeleteRe-read the article stop where it says "a cache of arms".
Bingo! I will not belittle you like others do, perhaps your learning English, I commend you for that.
1:29 there is a lot of missing information from this article or this case itself.
DeleteThe title for this article reads they confiscated $10 million in cash but not in the article.
Neither did it read that all that confiscated equalled to 10 million..
Everyone in this site thinks they are geniuses 😆
Actually It does say they confiscated more than 10 million in cash.
DeleteWhat I ment to say was there was no people caught.
So they caught a catch on weapons?
How does that equal to people?
Read my comment again Tonto
2:26@ it does say over 10 million in cash confiscated, the read the article, if no one was caught, what do you care, for when vin Mexico, the Marina's don't catch no one, when a drug bust is done.
DeleteHi my name is Mexico 1, but you can call me Japan 2 or Peru 1.
DeleteI can't think of regular names.
@822 Juan Garcia.
Delete8:22 that's what I go by so get used to it cry baby..
DeleteAnd it's not Mexico 1
It's Mexica 1 pendejo
Ok we all got it Marcon it's
Delete"Mexico Pendejo 1"
Mexica (Nahuatl: Mēxihcah, Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkaʔ] ( listen); singular Mēxihcatl, or Mexicas, were a Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of the Aztec Empire.
DeleteI heard these operations are being run by the Wah Ching Gang..the large busts in northern and Southern California are part of the same umbrella of the Wah Ching..they also operate many illegal dispensaries all over Cali
ReplyDeleteSeveral of the marijuana grows in Northern California are operated by (not saying this one was) Hmong people originating from China/Laos/Vietnam areas that historically were involved in opium farming there.
DeleteAfter 30 days the forfieted 10 million plus becomes the property of law enforcement. To be used for equipment, payroll, drug programs.
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