Chinese crime syndicates alleged pot grows lead to seizure of 100 homes in Sacramento area

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In the largest operation of its kind, federal agents swept across the Sacramento region Tuesday and Wednesday targeting about 75 homes serving as suspected marijuana growing sites that authorities say are operated by a Chinese organized crime syndicate.

The raids, which involved more than 500 federal, state and local agents, hit homes from Elk Grove to Sacramento to rural areas and are aimed at forcing the forfeiture of about 100 homes to the federal government, an effort valued at hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate and marijuana.

“This represents one of the largest residential forfeiture efforts in the nation’s history,” the U.S. Justice Department said.

The investigation began in 2014 as authorities began to see an uptick in marijuana growing operations concealed in residential neighborhoods throughout the Sacramento area and escalated in the past year as agents used utility bills and sophisticated financial analysis to track millions of dollars coming from China into the United States for the purchase of the homes....

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article207911324.html

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1. Jeff Sessions...

This would all move to commercial grow operations with regulatory control and tax revenue if the Feds would just butt the fuck out of "war on marijuana".

It would get rid of the criminal gangs involved with this too.