Law Enforcement Battles Against Indoor Pot Farms Span The Country

The Associated Press reports:

• Officers fighting networks of indoor marijuana factories took out what they called a major operation Wednesday in a secluded back room of a house [in Miami, Florida] where a nice older lady sold ice cream to kids. The raid targeted a sophisticated pot-growing operation that could net more than $300,000 a year, authorities said. [...] Law enforcement officials from Seattle to Miami are grappling with the spread of sophisticated indoor marijuana farms, often run by ethnic gangs, that produce hundreds of pounds each year.

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• [The busts] are part of a coordinated local and federal law enforcement crackdown on indoor marijuana grow houses. Last week in Seattle, authorities arrested 15 people and raided two garden shops that were part of a Vietnamese drug trafficking group accused of operating at least 19 marijuana grow houses around Puget Sound. One San Francisco-based ethnic Chinese drug ring operated at least 50 marijuana grow houses in the Bay area that could produce pot valued on the street at $94 million, authorities claim. Major indoor marijuana rings have also been discovered recently in Atlanta, Houston and New England.

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