OBN and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department today served a Search Warrant at a marijuana grow in Jefferson County (Golden Sunset Green LLC) linked to an on-going investigation into illegal cultivation using a ‘straw owner’ to claim control of the business. Agents seized 2,500 plants and 50 pounds of processed marijuana. Arrests are pending as this investigation continues.
Since 2021, OBN has shut down more than 1,000 illegal marijuana growing operations, arrested more than 200 defendants, seized more than 700,000 pounds of marijuana destined for the out-of-state black market, and currently has hundreds of additional investigations on-going linked to ‘straw owner’ licenses obtained by fraud, transshipping marijuana to the black market , or both.
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