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Feds raid downtown L.A. medical marijuana dispensary By Stuart Silverstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer / October 12, 2007 Federal agents seized marijuana and cash Thursday night from a medical marijuana dispensary in the loft district near Little Tokyo, officials said. Source: httD: / /www.latimes.com/ features /health/ medicine/ la- me- DOtl2octl2.1.7267901.story ?coll =la- health- medicine &ctrack =3 &cset =true Feds raid Hayward medical marijuana pot club The Associated Press/ 10/30/2007 HAYWARD, Calif— Federal authorities raided a medical marijuana dispensary they say was on pace to net more than $50 million in sales this year. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested the outfit's two owners and seized hundreds of pounds of pot ........ Agents also seized $200,000 in cash, two late model Mercedes Benz automobiles and a home in Lafayette. Source: http: / /www.mercurynews.com /news /ci_7323256 ?nclick_ check =l Police: Men bought medical marijuana with plans to sell it on the streets Posted on Tue, Nov. 13, 2007 Morro Bay police today announced they arrested two Stockton men Friday on suspicion of buying medical marijuana from dispensaries around the state in order to sell it for profit on the street...... officers discovered the 2.3 pounds of pot, which appeared packaged for sale, in some duffel bags ..... Investigators believe the two were driving to different medical marijuana dispensaries and buying the maximum amount of the drug allowed at each establishment. Police believe the men then intended to sell the drug on the street for profit. Police also reported seizing a digital scale and more than $1,000 in the investigation. Both men were taken to County Jail on charges of possession for sale of 2.3 pounds of marijuana and transportation of a large amount of marijuana..... Source: http:// www .sanluisobispo.com /breakingnews /story /191927.html Raid on Area Medical Marijuana Club Leaves City in Middle. By Kurt Helin, Editor November 29, 2007 ....Last week, federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officials raided the Long Beach Cannabis Club, which is located downtown (near a new condominium project and the City Place center). Agents seized 33 kilos of marijuana, about $10,000 cash and arrested the proprietor, Samuel Matthew Fata. Since the raid, the club has remained closed. Source: http : / /www.gazettes.com /marijuanal 1292007.html 3 Accused of Illegally Selling Medical Marijuana INDIO, Calif. (CBS) — ....Riverside County Sheriff s Department investigator Robert Garcia testified at the start of the hearing Tuesday that Hochanadel was operating a $1.6 million business for profit. ...... Marijuana and financial records were seized at CannaHelp, 73359 El Paseo, last December during the raid conducted by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, which alleged the dispensary was a for - profit business.... Source: http: / /cbs2.com/ 1ocal / Palm .Desert.medical.2.602989.html Feds go after wildly successful medical pot sellers Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross / Monday, November 5, 2007 .....According to the indictment, when the brothers opened their Compassionate Collective of Alameda County in 2004, they took in $74,000. In 2005, sales rose to $1.3 million. In 2006, sales hit $21 million. And in the first six months of this year, the brothers took in a whopping $26.3 million. "They were clearly out of control" ..... Two years ago, on Super Bowl Sunday, a team of armed hoods busted into the dispensary, tied everyone up and robbed the place of about $50, 000. 10