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you jumped the gun so fast 66BUDS that I almost shit myself.
Well, it wasn't his fault. He took the title from local news stories. The fault lies with them for being so sensationalist.
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you jumped the gun so fast 66BUDS that I almost shit myself.
You read it again, it says nothing about fraud.
"9Wants to Know has learned the FBI has busted an identity theft operation run by Russians who worked to steal identities from people trying to buy medical marijuana and used those identities to commit bank fraud and buy expensive vehicles from local dealerships, according to sources and the U.S. Attorney's office."
According to law enforcement and court records, people connected to CannaMed stole personal identifications from patients seeking medical marijuana in the business. Those identities were then used to obtain credit cards and buy expensive luxury cars from auto dealerships, including Maaliki Motors in Aurora.
If this is really over identity theft Iw ill be glad to see those people locked up. Kinda hard to believe though that the feds are actually looking out for patients best interests. I wonder if these are related with the raids in the LA area.
But if the allegations are true what a way to black eye the entire MMJ industry in CO guys!
FBI agents also served search warrants at more than a dozen locations, including personal residences, auto dealerships and the medical marijuana business called Alternative Medicine of Southeast Denver (AMSD), a company that is the same building as CannaMed, on Leetsdale Drive in Denver. CannaMed is where people can apply to get medical marijuana.
The FBI also raided AMSD on Friday morning after finding a little less than 100 marijuana plants. The FBI's primary focus was CannaMed, but entered AMSD after seeing the marijuana.
Because marijuana is not legal under federal law, the agents confiscated all the plants.
The two owners of AMSD tell 9NEWS the plants were worth tens of thousands of dollars and were used to treat more than 100 clients.
The seizure effectively shuts the business down.
"It is going to be very difficult for them to stay in business here today. They have hundreds of patients that they assist. You guys have seen them pulling into the parking lot one after another, after another this morning and those people are no longer going to be able to get medical marijuana here," Warren Cedson, an attorney for AMSD, said.
Colorado law allows for the use and sale of medical marijuana, but federal law does not. In this situation the federal agents were obligated to confiscate the marijuana.
Charlie Cross, spokesman for CannaMed, said, "CannaMed has no connection whatsoever with the individuals that were the target of the [search] warrants."