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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.eyeoutfoiyou.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 sheriffs deputies responded to an armed robbery at a Bellevue Avenue home where investigators said a large quantity of marijuana was growing. Source: httb:Hwww1.bressdemOcrat.com /article/ 20071211 /NEWS /712110358/1033/NEWSO1 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: / /Iapdonline.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 Sheriffs deputies had stolen their pot had legal permits for the two marijuana plants that were filched, authorities said........ 3