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1 Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Associated Issues Presented to the California Chiefs of Police Association September to December 2007 Cmdr. M. Regan As we have discussed in the past, the problems associated with Marijuana Dispensaries go far beyond the confines of the physical location. The marijuana sold at dispensaries is most often grown off site. Dispensaries and these off site grows have attracted a well armed and very violent group of criminals seeking to profit from the theft of marijuana and large sums of cash. The under reporting of these crimes as well as a lack of regulation of these businesses no doubt add to the problem. Listed below are excerpts of articles expressing the violence associated with this type of trade. I have saved these articles in their entirety for your review at a later date if you wish to view the full version. Robbery Suspect Charged With Murder after Alleged Accomplices Killed by Homeowner Thursday, November 15, 2007 /LAKEPORT, Calif. — Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death, but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder...... Prosecutors said homeowner Shannon Edmonds opened fire Dec. 7 after three young men rampaged through the Clearlake house demanding marijuana and brutally beat his stepson. Edmonds' stepson, Dale Lafferty, suffered brain damage from the baseball bat beating he took during the melee. The 19-year-old lives in a rehabilitation center and can no longer feed himself…… Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311894,00.html Two More Arrests Made In North Valley Murder Case Nov 9, 2007 ……The arrests were made in connection with the murder of Rosa Avina back on October 24th. Avina was kidnapped, tied, and forced into the trunk of a vehicle, before being taken to Ballico and burned alive.…..Sheriff's Deputies say that during the time of the arrests, approximately fifty-five pounds of Marijuana and a shotgun was seized……According to authorities Vasquez is believed to have participated in the planned mock home invasion robbery of Avina's Turlock home……These latest arrests should put out of business a ruthless Drug Trafficking Organization operating in Merced County, but further illuminates how far these barbarians will go to protect their drugs, and that is Murder," Merced County Sheriff, Mark Pazin said, Currently eleven people have been arrested in connection with the murder investigation. Source: http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=7339358 Nevada County marijuana shootout leaves one dead The Associated Press /10/01/2007 NEVADA CITY, Calif.—A homeowner apparently engaged in a gun battle with two masked men who tried to break into his marijuana garden, killing one of the alleged assailants and ending up seriously wounded himself. Nevada County sheriff's deputies say the Saturday night shootout started when two masked men armed with assault rifles broke into Dusty Beck's home…..Beck fatally shot one of the assailants with a shotgun, the sheriff's department said……Pot garden robberies are "getting worse and worse every year," Evans said. "I bet tons go unreported." Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_7053341?nclick_check=1 2 Armed suspect shot, killed by deputy near marijuana grow The Associated Press /Article Launched: 10/04/2007 EUREKA, Calif.—An armed suspect who authorities said threatened officers with a gun near a marijuana plantation was shot to death……Marijuana plantings on private timber and public lands have been an increasing problem....Because harvest time is near, marijuana growers are more willing to defend the plantations in the fall, Nelsen said. "The plants are a lot more valuable now," he said. Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_7084988 Game warden shooting is first in department history The Associated Press /10/09/2007 JARBO GAP, Calif.—A California Department of Fish and Game warden shot and killed a man in a remote area of the Sierra foothills, the first fatal shooting by a state game warden in the agency's history.… Ramsey said Pitts moved into a travel trailer on the rural property in April to help tend an illegal marijuana plot that recently had been harvested…..Pitts opened fire with a shotgun shotgun when the warden returned to the trailer to make the arrest, Ramsey said. The warden shot back, killing Pitts. Source: http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/ci_7128225?source=most_viewed Shooting Death Linked To Massive Lompoc Marijuana Farm 11-01-07 at 9:12AM SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) --Investigators say the shooting death of a man dumped along a Santa Barbara County highway is linked to a massive 90,000-plant marijuana garden discovered near Lompoc. Source: http://www.cbs8.com/stories/story.107672.html Suspects invade Nevada County home seeking cultivated marijuana The Associated Press /10/15/2007 GRASS VALLEY, Calif.—Investigators are searching for four people suspected of breaking into a rural Nevada County home in search of cultivated marijuana and beating eight people with crow bars and baseball bats...."It's harvest season," Evans told The Associated Press on Monday. "Marijuana is worth a lot."….Deputies were called to the house shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday and found eight people beaten and bound inside. A 27-year-old victim was taken to a Roseville hospital in critical condition. Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7184204?nclick_check=1 Home invasion linked to pot Bolted baseball bat used in alleged robbery attempt By Robyn Moormeister /Oct 17, 2007 A 37-year-old man was seriously injured when two men allegedly broke into a house outside Cedar Ridge late Monday night and attacked two other men with a wooden baseball bat that had long metal bolts driven into the end…..Police found about 22 pot plants at the house…..Violent marijuana robberies are happening all over California this harvest season, said Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Gordon Taylor in Sacramento…..Sheriff's investigators say the recent string of similar attempted robberies are not linked, Smith said. They suspect different attackers are involved in each incident, while the home invasions are not random, but targeted, perhaps by people who know the victims. "This is high risk, high gain to these (intruders)," Smith said. "They're probably going to let you do all the work, then take (the marijuana) after you pick off all the buds." Source: http://www.theunion.com/article/20071017/NEWS/110170173 3 Medical pot users seek help in theft By EMILIE RAGUSO /November 16, 2007 A gunman stole 3 pounds of marijuana from the garden of several medical marijuana users at a southwest Modesto home last week. The growers valued the prime buds, which they'd tended from seeds for nine months in a greenhouse full of bell peppers, tomatoes, corn and sunflowers, at $12,000 to $16,000…… Source: http://www.modbee.com/local/story/122848.html Medical marijuana stolen in home invasion robbery Story Created: Dec 14, 2007 at 2:20 PM CST Bakersfield Police are investigating a home invasion robbery in Northeast Bakersfield. Officers say three men showed up at the door of a home in the 7000 block of College Avenue about 8 p.m. Thursday. The men apparently got away with some cash, electronic equipment and some medical marijuana. Source: http://www.eyeoutforyou.com/news/local/12511671.html 2 arrests in pot theft near SRJC Ukiah men robbed of 3 pounds of marijuana at gunpoint; suspects found within hour By KATY HILLENMEYER /THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Two men suspected of stealing marijuana at gunpoint were arrested early Monday in Santa Rosa following a robbery in a parking lot in the Santa Rosa Junior College neighborhood, police said. The robbery victims were two Ukiah residents, who told police the marijuana was for medicinal purposes. Three pounds of marijuana were taken in the robbery…….The holdup marked at least the fourth time in two months that police responded to marijuana-related armed robberies in and around Santa Rosa; On Dec. 2, three gunmen forced their way into a Stevenson Street home in Santa Rosa. The victims told police that one man held the occupants, a woman and three teenage girls, while two others searched the residence and found marijuana and cash…..Police found evidence that marijuana had recently been harvested on the property. One resident said the marijuana was used medicinally. On Nov. 27, police said, a subject was shot to death after he and two accomplices broke into a Rincon Valley rental home. Police said they found more than 300 pounds of processed marijuana inside the Beech Avenue house and retrieved $26,000 in cash. Five tenants were arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale and related charges. On Oct. 24, Sonoma County sheriff's deputies responded to an armed robbery at a Bellevue Avenue home where investigators said a large quantity of marijuana was growing. Source: http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20071211/NEWS/712110358/1033/NEWS01 Hollywood Medical Marijuana Facility Robbed Monday, September 18, 2006 Los Angeles: Two men, posing as Los Angeles police officers, robbed the Hollywood Patient Collective on August 27, 2006, netting over $14,000 in cash and drugs…..They claimed to be LAPD officers and handcuffed the eight persons inside the facility, including the owner, an armed security guard, and an employee. The other persons were patrons, or patients, who were smoking marijuana. "The robbers posed as police officers to convince the security guard to surrender his gun,"….. Source: http://lapdonline.org/home/video_view/33366 Medical marijuana growers robbed From staff reports /October 29, 2007 The Oak View residents who called the Sheriff’s Department early this morning to report that a group of men pretending to be Sheriff’s deputies had stolen their pot had legal permits for the two marijuana plants that were filched, authorities said…….. 4 Residents told authorities they heard men say they were sheriff’s deputies and order everyone in the home to lie to the ground, then someone broke a window and took and two marijuana plants….. Source: http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/oct/29/morning-report-pot-robbery-reported-oakview/Attempted burglary at a marijuana dispensary in Santa Barbara Reported by: Ryan Quintana /Monday, October 15, 2007 SANTA BARBARA: A 17-year-old boy is arrested by Santa Barbara Police for an attempted burglary at a marijuana dispensary Friday night. Police arrived at SBC Patients Collective on De La Vina Street at 11:00 p.m. and found two juveniles in a vehicle. The 17-year-old was trying to get in the car when an officer saw blood on his hands. Police say he had cut them trying to break in. The other two teens were questioned and released. Source: http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=7220485 More Juvenile Arrests for Drugs and Drinking Sue Pascoe, Staff Writer /October 17, 2007 The Los Angeles Police Department Vice Unit has arrested seven juveniles and one adult this month for alcohol violations and illegal drug use in Pacific Palisades…..The youth told police that they thought it was okay to buy the marijuana because it was sold to them by a person who had a medical marijuana card. Source: http://www.palisadespost.com/content/index.cfm?Story_ID=3300 Police find guns, ammo, pot in big bust Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Police raided four separate barns at a property on Petersen Lane on Thursday, breaking up a large marijuana-growing operation and uncovering four AK-47 rifles and hundreds of ammunition rounds during the search. Officers confiscated 460 pot plants at the property…along with hydroponics equipment and the weapons. Information found with the guns lead them to a Kentfield address, where more weapons were found. In total, 33 guns — rifles and handguns — were found at the two locations…….. Source: http://www.petaluma360.com/article/AC/20071121/NEWS01/71120053/-1/PT07&template=ptart With the continued popularity of in door marijuana growing operations comes the increased risk to home owners, neighbors and public safety personnel. In an effort to conceal the grow operation from law enforcement and thieves, growers are moving their operations indoors. This creates a number of hazards. People involved indoor growing operations often manipulate the electrical systems to conceal their electricity usage and avoid paying the considerable cost of the electricity they use. Controlling the climate is an essential part of the indoor growing operation. Often the chemical composition of the air inside the house is modified to enhance plant growth, to the detriment of first responders should they need to enter the grow area. These modifications coupled with growers arming themselves to discourage robberies and the use of booby traps can make responding to a fire or other emergency at a grow operation increasingly hazardous. Pot growing scheme may have sparked Antioch apartment fire By Malaika Fraley /STAFF WRITER /12/31/2007 2007 ANTIOCH--Two young Antioch residents were arrested Sunday night after their apartment was set afire by what police suspect was a small marijuana growing operation. A lamp used to grow marijuana in a closet likely sparked the fire that led firefighters to evacuate the several apartments Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7849288 5 Marijuana plants tied to house fire Tuesday, October 23, 2007 – Police say a marijuana grow operation inside an Auburn house led to an electrical fire that destroyed most of the home early Sunday. A man and a woman who lived in the house in the 2700 block of Alpine Drive Southeast were arrested on suspicion of growing marijuana, said Auburn Police Commander Willard Lathrop. Police found about 400 plants in various stages of growth. The grow was fueled by an illegal power tap. An electrical short in one of the grow rooms caused the fire, Lathrop said……. Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003968565_dige23m.html Oakland warehouse fire betrays location of marijuana operation Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer /Saturday, November 10, 2007 Federal drug agents are investigating an apparent marijuana-growing operation at a West Oakland building that was uncovered after firefighters put out a three-alarm blaze Friday at an adjacent warehouse, authorities said.......An estimated 300 to 400 marijuana plants were found inside the building, said Special Agent Casey McEnry, DEA spokeswoman in San Francisco……. Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/10/BAUJT9IJH.DTL&type=printable Man arrested after marijuana found in burning home The Associated Press /12/10/2007 LOS ANGELES—A man has been arrested after hundreds of suspected marijuana plants were found growing in a San Fernando Valley home that caught fire……The fire was reported about 7 a.m. and firefighters managed to confine it to the patio. Upon further inspection, firefighters found what they believed to be dozens of marijuana plants. Police arrived a short time later and confiscated 382 plants. Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7681350?nclick_check=1 Man faces charges after authorities find pot while fighting fire The Associated Press /10/30/2007 FRESNO, Calif.—A Fresno man faces charges after firefighters find more than 800 marijuana plants growing in a vacant house. Authorities arrested Andy Lieng after firefighters found the pot plants when they responded to a fire at a vacant home owned by Lieng. Deputies later went to a second home owned by Lieng, where they say they found an additional 900 marijuana plants……Investigators say the vacant home where the fire occurred had been converted into a greenhouse with special lighting fixtures used to grow the plants. The fire was caused by overloaded electrical lines, Fresno fire officials reported. Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7322012 Two senior citizens in Alameda arrested for having 200 marijuana plants By Peter Hegarty /MediaNews /10/09/2007 An elderly couple caught with more than 200 marijuana plants at their Alameda home mounted the potgrowing operation because they needed cash, according to police. Paul Richard Martinetti, 73, and Suzanne Roberts, 68, were taken into custody on Thursday at their residence on Garfield Avenue…..A narcotics officer who asked that his name not be disclosed described it as a "well-organized operation," operation," but not very sophisticated. "He told me that he had run into financial difficulties and that they decided to begin growing marijuana as a way to make cash,"……. Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7127039?nclick_check=1 6 Calif. police, DEA bust pair of pot operations By Angela Woodall and Harry Harris /Inside the Bay Area OAKLAND, Calif. — Raids conducted by Oakland police netted nearly 7,000 marijuana plants and two suspects in little over 24 hours……"It was unbelievable," Whitman said. "The entire house upstairs and downstairs was laden with plants, including the bathrooms and kitchen. Literally there was no place inside for anyone to live…..The entire house was devoted to marijuana-growing, Whitman said, adding that neighbors reported seeing people at the house only about once monthly….. Agents estimated the value of the plants at $3.5 million. No arrests were made and the investigation is continuing, McEnry said. Agents seized a Mercedes Benz parked in the driveway and are still trying to determine the identity of the homeowner. Federal agents were on their way Tuesday night to Oakland for a second time in as many days when police at 7:50 p.m. seized about 2,000 marijuana plants from a West Oakland indoor pot farm…… Source: http://www.policeone.com/federal/articles/1363611/33 pounds of marijuana found at Tahoe home Nevada Appeal News Service /November 3, 2007 ….. Inside the home, drug agents seized 33.5 pounds of marijuana, said Jeff Catchings, task force commander for the South Lake El Dorado Narcotics Enforcement Team. Agents also discovered a small marijuana-growing operation inside the home, Catchings added……The Hallens each had county-issued medical marijuana cards that allow growing up to 10 marijuana plants for medicinal purposes, Catchings said. But there was evidence of sales for the processed marijuana, which resulted in the felony charges. Source: http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20071103/NEWS/111030139 Deputies sniff out marijuana operation Nov 20, 2007 ……The Kern County Sheriff's Department tells Eyewitness News deputies responded to a separate call on Kearney Ave. and while there, they smelled a strong odor of marijuana. The deputies followed the smell coming from a nearby building. After obtaining a search warrant, investigators discovered around 700 plants of marijuana with a street value estimated at $1,750,000. The building had artificial sun lights, a water system and ventilation to grow the pot indoors. This is one of the largest pot busts deputies have found indoors. Source: http://www.eyeoutforyou.com/home/11674741.html San Jose Man Convicted of Cultivating Over 1000 Marijuana Plants and Possessing 30 Firearms Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 LAWFUEL -The Legal Newswire -SAN JOSE – United States Attorney Scott N. Schools announced that Kevin Dugan was convicted by a federal jury of manufacturing marijuana, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, maintaining a place for the purpose of manufacturing and distributing marijuana, and being an unlawful user or addict in possession of firearms. Source: http://lawfuel.com/show-release.asp?ID=16178 Valley's pot gardens move to the indoors By James Guy /The Fresno Bee /12/09/07 23:06:02 The value of dope: Inside two new tract houses in northwest and southeast Fresno, authorities found millions of dollars in potent marijuana --and indications that a new way of growing it is catching on in the central San Joaquin Valley. A look at the value of marijuana found in each home. Location: 2482 S. Villa Ave. Location: 5307 W. Donner Ave. Found: 862 marijuana plants Found: 973 marijuana plants Value: $3 million Value: $3.8 million 7 ……Indoor marijuana farms allow organized criminal groups to grow powerful new strains of the drug faster, more profitably and with less risk than an outdoor garden. "You can harvest a crop every three months, and after a year, walk away with $1.5 million," said Robert Pennal of the state's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement……The marijuana grown in the southwest Fresno home at 2482 S. Villa Ave. was found --like many of the indoor farms are --by firefighters. Someone had bypassed the home's electricity meter to steal power. This is done so utility companies don't grow suspicious when a home uses thousands of dollars of power a month, according to Pennal. But as in the Villa home, it's often a shoddy wiring job that sparks an electrical fire. Source: http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/254974.html Crash, traffic stop lead to wide-reaching Bay Area marijuana bust Bay City News Service /12/13/2007 California Highway Patrol officers unearthed a wide-reaching Bay Area marijuana operation after responding to two separate traffic incidents in Vacaville, it was announced Wednesday. The investigation to date has yielded over 800 marijuana plants worth $2 million from homes in Vacaville, Walnut Creek, Lafayette and Martinez, CHP officers said……The investigation is ongoing. Source: http://www.mercurynews.c om/breakingnews/ci_7710084?nclick_check=1 Three arrested for indoor marijuana-grow operations 12/12/2007 …….Agents located two sophisticated indoor marijuana cultivation sites at the properties near Wool Mountain, according to a news release. A total of 612 plants were seized from a camouflaged structure in a creek bed. An additional 1,687 plants were seized from a two-story barn with four grow rooms……Also discovered was an underground 1,000-gallon diesel tank that was leaking from a faulty valve, the release stated. HCDTF contacted Humboldt County Environmental Health, which responded to document the environmental impacts……Agents located seven rifles, three handguns and paperwork with notations consistent with the sales of of multiple pounds of marijuana bud, according to the release. Source: http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=31673 Detectives bust marijuana grow houses in Aptos, Santa Cruz Jennifer Squires /Sentinel staff writer .....The investigation, which started 18 months ago, has led to a total of six raids at five addresses --including the houses searched Thursday --Carney said. Detectives have confiscated almost 2,000 plants, worth $2.4 million to $3.6 million on the street…..The same group of people bought all the houses in 2005 and allegedly set up the grows, according to detectives. Investigators think the owners were using the marijuana grows to pay the mortgages on the homes. "It appears they've been financing the houses with the cultivation and sales of marijuana," Carney said. Source: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/story.php?storySection=Local&sid=51603 Marijuana operations uncovered in Fairfield Article Launched: 12/16/2007 07:42:49 AM PST Fairfield Police officers uncovered a sophisticated marijuana growing system Thursday while executing a search warrant on Bellamy Court…..Police reportedly found a marijuana cultivation system in the home, including high-intensity lighting equipment, fans, a portable air conditioning unit, power converters and timers. Officers also allegedly recovered a half-pound of processed marijuana and 70 marijuana plants. Source: http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_7737688 8 Marijuana Mansions By STEVEN KURUTZ /Published: December 9, 2007 Marijuana growers have long faced a dilemma. If they grow pot outdoors, weather conditions are unpredictable, and plants can be spotted from the air or accidentally discovered…..According to Lt. Greg Garland of the sheriff’s department in San Bernardino County, where more than 50 pot houses have been raided this year, the growers favor newer communities in outlying suburbs because they get more space for the money, and residents pay scant attention to their neighbors. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007 /12/09/magazine/09marijuana.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin Warehouse pot growing operation found in Santa Cruz County The Associated Press /12/31/2007 SOQUEL, Calif.—A marijuana growing operation has been uncovered in a Soquel warehouse….While the 377 plants wasn't a huge haul, Sgt. Steve Carney says it was the largest warehouse operation he can recall, noting there was room to grow 3,000 plants at a time. Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7849059?nclick_check=1 While there has been a significant increase in indoor grows, there appears to have been no real decrease in outdoor growing operations. It has been opined that outdoor growers were moving to indoor grow operations as the indoor grows were less susceptible to theft and seizure by law enforcement. However, both growing styles appear to be on the rise. It is expected that seizures of marijuana grown outdoors will continue the previous year’s upward trend. Marijuana Cultivation Sites Eradicated in Merced River Drainage Author: National Park Service /Published on Oct 4, 2007, 08:47 On the 26th and 27th of September 2007, approximately 30 law enforcement officers from the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office, the US Forest Service, the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement (CAMP), and Yosemite National Park raided four illegal marijuana cultivation sites……A total of 14,536 plants valued at over 43 million dollars were seized. Source: http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/printer_67087.shtm l 3000 Plants and 10 lbs of Processed Marijuana Eradicated at Sheep Ranch Road and San Antonio Creek Posted by: Kim Hamilton on 10/22/2007 03:58 PM ….. the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office received a call from an anonymous person, who stated that both he and his son had been the victim of an assault with a deadly weapon. The caller explained that he had been hunting in an area near Sheep Ranch, and after hiking in an area, he turned on his flashlight, and was immediately fired upon from at least one firearm. …..Deputies and members of the Calaveras County Narcotic Enforcement Unit removed over 3000 marijuana plants, and seized over 10 pounds of processed marijuana from the garden……..The garden appeared to have been tended to workers who lived within a primitive camp in the garden, and was likely grown for a Mexican drug trafficking organization. Source: http://thepinetree.net/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=420 3 Authorities arrest 19 in three-day marijuana bust The Associated Press /11/08/2007 LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman says 19 people have been arrested and 300,000 plants uprooted in a three-day sting targeting marijuana cultivation. 9 ….. Whitmore says of the crops: "These grows not only use chemicals that can pollute streams. They create mounds of human waste and thousands of pounds of camp trash." Source: http://www.mercurynew s.com/breakingnews/ci_7406380?nclick_check=1 California tops marijuana eradication record Submitted by Bill Weinberg /11/23/2007 …..Nearly three million pot plants destroyed California not only leads the nation in pot production, but also in plant eradication. With the outdoor harvest over, the state's Department of Justice announced on Nov. 13 that 2.9 million cannabis plants were destroyed this year. That's an increase of 1.2 million plants since last year and a total increase of 1.8 million plants since 2005. The seizures were conducted by CAMP -Campaign Against Marijuana Planting -a task force of local, state and federal agencies. California Attorney General Jerry Brown stated: "When you're out there hiking in the country, the rural area of California, you don't expect to be confronted with some illegal person pointing an AK-47 at you." He claimed that medical marijuana was not taken in any of the 472 raids. "This is one way of alleviating people's pain," the AG said. "Although I can tell you, having watched one of these marijuana clinics outside the Oakland police station, the people going in look rather young and vigorous on their way to pick up their material." Ironically, Brown signed California's decriminalization bill into law when he was governor in 1975 and has admitted to using marijuana. CAMP's pot-plant seizures year-by-year: 2000 -345,207 2004 -621,315 2001 -313,776 2005 -1,134,692 2002 -354,202 2006 -1,675,681 2003 -466,054 2007 -2,905,021 Source: http://www.ww4report.com/node/4694 Latest Western States Information Network Intelligence bulletin states 2006 Record high seizures with 2007’s expected to be even higher Mexican