OAKLAND, Calif. – California’s Unified Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce has seized close to $23 million in illicitly cultivated cannabis in East Oakland, the governor’s office announced on Tuesday.
Specifically, the task force confiscated more than 21,000 illegal cannabis plants totaling $17.8 million. Those searches also led to the seizure of more than $10,000 in cash, as well as over 3,000 pounds of illicit cannabis flower worth more than $5 million, according to the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Officials said these arrests were done to “safeguard public health” and to “preserve the integrity” of California’s regulated cannabis market.
Specifics of the operations weren’t given.
“As shown by the amounts seized in these search warrants, these large-scale illegal operations are a burden on California’s valuable environmental resources and need to be removed,” Nathaniel Arnold, California Department of Fish and Wildlife chief of law enforcement, said in a statement.
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