Cmdr. Marc Alcantara of the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force showed a visitor photographs of marijuana bales being hoisted by helicopters onto pickup trucks. This year, task force deputies removed 5,070 plants worth $1.5 million from deep in the county’s Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve just south of San Francisco.
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New pot clubs are on hold in San Francisco while The City awaits word on whether the state Supreme Court will uphold a ruling that could change the relationship between medical cannabis dispensaries and municipalities.
A court ruling in Long Beach said the Southern California city had authority to limit where dispensaries set up shop, but could not issue permits or legal permission. Long Beach has appealed the case to the state Supreme Court.
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The City has sued the landlord of a Tenderloin apartment building for allegedly forcing tenants to live in bedbug-ridden squalor with drug-dealing gang members keeping them “like prisoners in their own homes.”
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San Francisco’s medical marijuana dispensaries are under attack after at least three landlords of pot clubs were sent threatening letters from the Department of Justice as part of a statewide crackdown.
The letters are the latest conflict between San Francisco — where medical marijuana is legal under local and state law — and the federal government, which deems the drug illegal.
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The strong smell of marijuana emanating from a warehouse led San Carlos authorities to an illegal marijuana-growing house and law enforcement officials were able dismantle the operation.On Friday, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office conducted a routine building inspection of a property in the 900 block of Terminal Way following a number of complaints from neighbors about the odor.
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A man and woman living in San Francisco’s Richmond district were robbed at gunpoint in their home early this morning and then detained when officers found dozens of marijuana plants inside, a police spokesman said.The robbery occurred at about 1:55 a.m. at a home in the 500 block of 40th Avenue.
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Child pornography charges against medical-marijuana guru Dennis Peron became cloudier last week after District Attorney George Gascón announced that police involved in a raid of Peron’s residence are now under investigation for misconduct in other cases.
The Aug. 4 raid of Peron’s residence, which doubles as a bed and breakfast known as the “Castro Castle,” turned up child pornography on computers and several types of drugs, according to a police affidavit.
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WHAT: During the past 15 months, at least 40 DHS employees and five contractors — mostly officers on customs or immigration enforcement — pleaded guilty to or were convicted of crimes, according to an inspector general’s report.WHO: One Texas officer was sentenced to 20 years for conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens and more than 200 pounds of marijuana from Mexico. A Chicago ICE officer served time for taking bribes to stop deportation of two Iraqis.
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Eight people were arrested Monday in a bust of a major marijuana growing operation that included four grow houses in Daly City and South San Francisco, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.Police seized 1,400 marijuana plants, 55 pounds of harvested marijuana, six guns and more than $47,000 in suspected drug profits, Sheriff’s Department spokesman Lt. Ray Lunny said. The marijuana seized has an estimated street value of more than $450,000.
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Rhode Island House Minority Leader Robert Watson was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and driving under the influence, after being stopped at a Connecticut police checkpoint. A bag of suspected marijuana and a pipe were found in Watson’s pocket, according to the police report. Watson had made regional headlines by saying his Legislature coddled pot-smoking immigrants.
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