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Feds: Raids upend illegal marijuana rings proliferating in Colorado

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 10/09/2015 - 08:45

Colorado and federal agents have raided illegal marijuana operations across the state the past six weeks in a concerted effort to take out companies marketing marijuana to different parts of the country.

U.S. Attorney John Walsh's staff has filed numerous criminal charges in recent weeks against illegal operations that are secretly growing marijuana in Colorado for shipment across the country.

Local, state and federal agents have arrested 32 people, most of them residents from outside Colorado, on illegal marijuana charges. Some of the offenders were citizens of Mexico and Cuba, according to a news release Thursday by Jeff Dorschner, Walsh's spokesman..

Marijuana being packaged and lifted to a more secure area and marijuana growing on public land. (U.S. Department of Justice)

About 20,000 marijuana plants were destroyed as well as 300 kilograms of dried marijuana.

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