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Federal raids net four men, 1,300 pot plants [WA]
02/12/07 11:45 AM
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Federal raids net four men, 1,300 pot plants
February 12, 2007 - katu.com
Four men are facing federal charges in the wake of a two-state drug sweep that officials say uncovered 1,300 marijuana plants, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, being grown in a Hazel Dell home.
The raids, performed Thursday morning, included the arrests of a group of Vancouver and Portland residents who allegedly conspired to grow marijuana they planned to sell, said Frank Romanaggi, director of the Oregon-based Regional Organized Crime Narcotics Task Force.
“We think we got the main players, and we’re still looking at it,” Romanaggi said Friday.
During a six-month probe that culminated in Thursday’s raids, Oregon officers worked closely with the Clark-Skamania Drug Task Force and federal agents.
Four men were charged Friday in U.S. District Court in Portland with conspiracy to grow marijuana, officials said.
All four defendants were being held without bail Friday at the Multnomah County Detention Center in Portland, a jail employee said.
They are to appear in court Wednesday, said Russ Ratto, a special assistant U.S. attorney in Portland. The charges filed Friday will later be reviewed by a grand jury.
Officials said the raids uncovered three places where marijuana was being grown in Oregon and one place in Hazel Dell.
The Hazel Dell growing operation was the largest, with about 1,300 pot plants in a home at 2506 N.E. 99th St. The high-quality marijuana was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, Romanaggi said.
Five search warrants were executed in Clark County. In one raid, on Northeast 47th Street in the Minnehaha area, officials suspect that marijuana had been grown there. However, the plants and growing equipment had been removed before officers arrived, said Sgt. Mike
Lester of the Clark-Skamania Drug Task Force.
The remaining three addresses officials raided in Clark County were homes where the suspects lived or were found.
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