OKLAHOMA CITY OK November 25, 2022 – Oklahoma City Police said a security officer shot and killed an armed robbery suspect at a dispensary Thursday morning. Police said the suspect entered a Mango Cannabis dispensary on the Northwest Expressway with a weapon around 11 a.m. Authorities said the security officer confronted the suspect and shot […]
TACOMA, Wash. October 29 2022— The Tacoma Police Department (TPD) is asking the public for information about suspects who are accused of robbing a cannabis shop early Friday morning. According to police, around 2:30 a.m. three cars pulled up near the front of Zip’s Cannabis in the 2600 block of Pacific Avenue, then one drove […]
SAN LEANDRO CA Sept 13 2022— Police in San Leandro are investigating a shooting during an attempted burglary at an indoor marijuana grow operation that left three people injured, including two in critical condition. According to a release issued by the San Leandro Police Department, on Sunday morning at around 4:20 a.m., authorities received a […]
Compton CA April 30, 2022 A security guard working at what police called “an illegal marijuana dispensary” has been involved in a shoot-out that resulted in the death of one person. Now, an 18-year-old man is facing a murder charge following the shootout that resulted in the death of a Wilson High School student who […]
Birmingham AL Feb 16, 2022 Kristy McKinney’s career change from law enforcement to cannabis farmer involved much more than just swapping out her badge for a license to grow. The former Birmingham police officer had to learn all about cultivating plants and producing CBD while reckoning with her old job and making arrests for marijuana. […]
San Bernardino County CA Jan 22, 2022 A Pennsylvania armored car company that transports proceeds from licensed cannabis businesses to banks alleges in a lawsuit that San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies confiscated more than $1 million in cash deposits within the past two months during a pair of illegal roadside seizures. “This is nothing but […]
LOS ANGELES CA Dec 16, 2021 A California security officer was murdered and his family is grieving over the senseless death of their loved one, Dominique Ware, who was shot and killed at a marijuana dispensary in South Los Angeles. “But when this hit me, it tore me up, to know what happened to my […]
San Francisco CA Dec 10 2021 Cannabis shops across the San Francisco Bay Area have been thrown into dire straits as gangs of thieves broke into more than 15 shops throughout November during the series of ‘smash-and-grab’ robberies that are plaguing California. Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong told reporters that ‘hundreds’ of vehicles targeted marijuana stores […]
OAKLAND CA Nov 23 2021— An exchange of gunfire early Sunday between looters and security guards at an East Oakland marijuana business left a suspect wounded, authorities said. The marijuana dispensary and distribution center in the 300 block of Pendleton Way was one of several targeted by looters between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. Sunday […]
SALEM, Ore. October 20 2021— On the same day last week that a southern Oregon county declared a state of emergency amid a sharp increase in illegal cannabis farms, police raided a site that had about 2 tons of processed marijuana and 17,500 pot plants. The raid illustrates that the proliferation of industrial-scale marijuana farms […]