East Bay cannabis seizures cap busy regulatory year
State cannabis control workers closed out a busy year in Alameda and Contra Costa counties with warrant service at multiple homes in Antioch and Oakland last week, recovering plants and processed flowers, as well as cash, authorities said.
State cannabis control workers closed out a busy year in Alameda and Contra Costa counties by serving warrants at multiple homes in Antioch and Oakland last week, recovering plants and processed flowers, as well as cash, authorities said.
City staff red-tagged at least one home after the seizure, citing unpermitted construction and unsafe living conditions, and a state spokesman shared images of electrical wiring used to help grow the plants.
State officials did not immediately disclose arrests connected to the raid, and police did not share any information about arrests or enforcement assistance to state officials, “as that was their investigation,” an Antioch police spokeswoman said Thursday.
A similar search warrant served Friday at an undisclosed Oakland address assisted by department detectives led to the seizure of 9,113 plants and 553 pounds of processed cannabis flower, for a total of 5,109 pounds with an estimated retail value of $8.4 million. Department officials did not immediately disclose arrests in that warrant service.
This year, as of Friday, state cannabis control officials’ law enforcement division led or participated in 50 search warrant operations in Contra Costa and four in Alameda County.
Those operations yielded 218,149 pounds of seized cannabis, with an estimated retail value of nearly $360 million, including the eradication of 556,547 plants, the seizure of $308,178 in cash and recovery of 24 firearms.
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