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Man Gets Five-Year Prison Sentence for Huge Marijuana Grow In Los Padres National Forest Found After Dolan Fire

A 56-year-old man will be doing five years in prison for running a giant illegal cannabis grow that was discovered in a Monterey-area national forest after the Dolan Fire, which itself was started by another rogue marijuana grower.

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CHP Pulls Over Speeding Driver on I-580, Finds 270 Pounds of Marijuana in Car

Pro tip: If you have 270 pounds of illegal marijuana in your car, do not drive at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour, as you are likely to attract Highway Patrol attention. One driver learned that the hard way Wednesday night in Dublin.

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SF City Attorney Sues Bayview Warehouse Owner for Allegedly Running Two Huge Illegal Marijuana Grows

Two Bayview warehouses have been acting as illegal indoor cannabis grows for over a year, according to a new lawsuit from City Attorney David Chiu, after state agents raided and found nearly 6,000 plants at the two facilities.

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Oakland PD Officer Placed On Leave After Giant Illegal Marijuana Grow Found in His Antioch Home

Last week CNN ran a report detailing that more than 50 very nice houses in Antioch were just giant hidden illegal pot grow operations, with no one living in the houses. Now it turns out one of those homes is owned by an Oakland police officer.

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CNN Report Finds Giant, Illegal Marijuana Grows Operating Out of Luxury Homes in Antioch

Not even the ritziest enclaves of Contra Costa County are immune to having large-scale illicit marijuana grow operations, as a CNN report found three homes on the same street in Antioch were busted for not being homes, but instead enormous indoor pot grows.

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Missing Child Search in Butte County Finds Child, Plus Nearly 7,000 Pounds of Illegal Marijuana

The good news is that a missing three-year-old girl was found after being reported missing by her Butte County parents. The bad news, for the parents at least, is that police also found about 7,000 pounds of marijuana, plus more than 5,000 illegal plants on their property.

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Oakland Cigarette Shop Busted for Selling Marijuana, and Maybe a Little Meth

A raid on a cigarette shop in Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood turned up pounds of marijuana, cases of illegal menthols, two loaded guns, and what police call “suspected crystal methamphetamine.”

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California’s Largest Dispensary Chain Stiiizy Accused of Running Illegal, Underground Pot Shops

After an LA Times investigation connected the co-founder of huge dispensary chain Stiiizy to nine illegal marijuana shops in Southern California, a new lawsuit accuses Stiiizy of operating twice as many illegal, unlicensed dispensaries.

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Authorities Seize $7 Million Worth of Black-Market Marijuana In Lake County Bust

Lake County Sheriff's deputies this week busted a large pot growing and processing operation that spanned three residential buildings.

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Local Man Allegedly Flies to Nashville With 87 Pounds of Marijuana, Predictable Result Ensues

Who’s a good boy? That drug-sniffing dog from Nashville, Tennessee, who fetched 87 pounds of weed from luggage from an SFO inbound flight and didn’t smoke any of it.

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Seven Hospitalized In Central Valley With Near-Fatal Lung Conditions From Street-Purchased Vape Pods

Seven people in Kings County landed in intensive care, some with near-fatal respiratory distress, after vaping with cannabis oil pods purchased from un-licensed pop-up vendors.

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Cops Follow Stolen iPhone To Cache Of Illegal Weapons, Oakland Pot Operation

While it's not quite as big as the iPad that led to the meth bust of the century down in San Jose, cops serving a search warrant for a stolen iPhone yesterday entered

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