"At 7:37 a.m. on January 28, 2016, nearly 30 officers from the San Diego joint narcotics task force
conducted a raid on Med-West Distributors, a licensed medical
cannabis extraction
company. The officers, decked out in helmets and tactical gear and clutching
assault rifles and handguns, used a sledgehammer to open the door, and then burst into the lobby. Once inside, the task force arrested two employees present, cracked open the company's safe, and collected its inventory--more than 30,000 cartridges of
cannabis oil and a couple of pounds of concentrate.
The narcotics task force seized $1.4 million in cash, product, and money from various bank accounts belonging to owner James Slatic ($325,570 in cash was found in the safe). Med-West had been providing hundreds of licensed dispensaries around California with medical CO2-extracted cannabis oil and products under the state's medical
marijuana laws since 2010. The company was licensed by the city of San Diego and operating openly. Slatic says his company was raided a second time in late June and is now officially closed.
San Diego law enforcement used federal asset forfeiture laws to freeze and seize the company's cash and the money in Slatic's personal bank account, the bank account of his wife (who is a federal employee at Veterans Affairs), and his kids' college savings accounts. The San Diego Sheriff's Office and San Diego County District Attorney's Office declined to explain why they seized Med-West's and the Slatic family's money, but neither has charged Slatic with a crime."
"Two months later, the company has no answers regarding why it was raided and has not been charged, yet it has no access to its confiscated assets."
it is still on-going
and in other news.. just last week, they raided some oil shops... guess they're going after oil....