🇺🇸 Washington, United States
RSS17 reports of cannabis enforcement.
- People arrested
- 474
- Plants destroyed
- 416.9K
- Cannabis seized
- 3.65122 t
- Deaths
- 1
Only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- Eradication · 5
- Seizure · 2
- Raid · 4
- Arrest · 1
- Prosecution · 1
- Sentence · 4
Reports
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20262 reports
70-year-old arrested as 2,700 marijuana plants seized near Monroe
A 70-year-old man was arrested and booked into jail after Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board officers and Snohomish County deputies searched a property near Monroe on 6 November 2026. Investigators seized approximately 2,700 live and dried marijuana plants from what they described as an unlicensed cannabis production operation.
Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 2,700
Accomplice in fatal Tacoma dispensary robbery sentenced to 15 years
Michael Keylon Miller-Jimerson, 26, was sentenced in Pierce County Superior Court to 15 years for second-degree murder for directing teenagers in the March 2022 robbery of the World of Weed dispensary in Tacoma, where employee Jordan Brown was shot and killed. The agreed term, below his 21-30 year standard range, will run concurrently with a federal sentence for a robbery spree.
Prison 15 yearsDeaths 1
20251 report
Three Pierce County grow sites raided, 2,000 plants seized, seven held
The Pierce County Sheriff's Office searched three properties on 5 December 2025 and arrested seven people, three women and four men, over unlicensed marijuana growing. Deputies seized over 2,000 plants, more than $16,000 in cash and two firearms, and the seven faced charges of unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance and unlawful use of a building for drug purposes.
Arrested 7Charged 7Plants destroyed 2,000Sites 3
20172 reports
Task force raids Chinese-run grows across Grays Harbor and seizes 32,449 plants
A task force led by Grays Harbor County executed 50 search warrants across three Washington counties, arresting 44 people and seizing 32,449 marijuana plants worth an estimated $80 million from homes bought with cash by an organised Chinese operation.
Arrested 44Plants destroyed 32,449Vehicles confiscated 26
Federal case against Kettle Falls Five medical growers ends in dismissal
Five medical marijuana patients near Kettle Falls, Washington, were federally prosecuted for a 74-plant shared garden; three were convicted of cultivation in 2015 and sentenced to 12 to 33 months. The convictions were vacated and the charges dismissed in January 2017, and the Justice Department later conceded the prosecution had been illegal since 2014.
Charged 5Prison 12 to 33 months (convictions vacated in 2017)
20161 report
Easter egg hunt disturbance leads to 3 arrests, 45 lb pot seizure
Three men were arrested after a disturbance at an Easter egg hunt led Clark County deputies to an unlicensed marijuana operation in Salmon Creek, Washington, on 26 March 2016. Detectives seized about 45 pounds of processed marijuana, more than $108,000 in cash and four vehicles.
Arrested 3Charged 1Cannabis 20.41 kgVehicles confiscated 4
20112 reports
At least 14 medical-marijuana dispensaries raided across Puget Sound
Federal agents and county task forces raided at least 14 medical-marijuana dispensaries across King, Pierce and Thurston counties on 15 November 2011, the largest such sweep since voters approved medical marijuana in 1998. More than a dozen people were arrested; the DEA said the shops hid commercial dealing behind the medical law.
Arrested 13
Raids destroy 28,000 cannabis plants in Columbia County
Officers destroyed 25,765 plants in the Eckler Mountain area on 18 August 2011, a day after arresting two armed men at a Hartsock grow, in what deputies called Washington's biggest pot bust of the year. The raids capped a summer in which about 37,000 plants were eradicated at four Columbia County sites; a third suspect faced federal prosecution.
Arrested 3Plants destroyed 28,065
20101 report
Marc Emery gets five years in a US prison for cannabis seeds
Canadian activist Marc Emery was sentenced in Seattle on 10 September 2010 to five years in US federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture marijuana after admitting he sold millions of cannabis seeds to American customers.
Prison 5 years
20082 reports
Operation Green Reaper seized 4,578 plants in 13 King County grow raids
On 10 September 2008 the DEA and Puget Sound police executed 13 search warrants on indoor marijuana grows across King County under Operation Green Reaper, seizing 4,578 plants, three weapons, about US$50,000 cash and 20 vehicles while taking 20 people into custody.
Arrested 20Plants destroyed 4,578
16,742-plant cartel grow raided in Ross Lake recreation area
Officers from nine agencies raided a marijuana plantation in the Ross Lake National Recreation Area on 14 August 2008, destroying 16,742 plants valued at nearly $48 million, the first such grow found in a Washington national park.
Plants destroyed 16,742
Washington destroys more than 130,000 marijuana plants in 2006
Washington law enforcement destroyed more than 130,000 marijuana plants in 2006 under the joint state-federal eradication program, nearly matching the 2005 record. The seizures led to more than 340 arrests and 190 weapons seizures; officials attributed the crop to traffickers moving from Canada.
Arrested 340Plants destroyed 130,000
Operation Frozen Timber breaks helicopter rings; 8,000 lb seized
US and Canadian officers announced Operation Frozen Timber on 29 June 2006 after breaking six rings that flew marijuana south across the border by helicopter. They seized 8,000 pounds of marijuana, issued 45 indictments and arrested more than 40 people.
Arrested 40Charged 45Cannabis 3.62874 t
Washington seized a record 135,323 marijuana plants in 2005
Washington law enforcement seized a record 135,323 marijuana plants in 2005, which the State Patrol valued at $270 million, ranking the illegal crop as the state's No. 8 agricultural commodity ahead of sweet cherries.
Plants destroyed 135,323
Tacoma man jailed 15 years for ferris-wheel grow operation
Chad Robert Latham, 30, was sentenced in Tacoma on 18 January 2006 to 15 years in federal prison for a hydroponic grow operation built around eight ferris-wheel machines of his own design. Police seized 2,083 plants when they caught him moving the operation in March 2004.
Prison 15 years
20051 report
Vancouver man jailed five years for armed marijuana grow
Lee Murray Ferryman, 45, was sentenced on 18 February 2005 to a mandatory five years in federal prison for manufacturing marijuana while keeping eleven firearms at his Vancouver home grow, where officers had found 170 plants plus packaged and dried marijuana in October 2003.
Cannabis 2.075 kgPrison 5 years
20041 report
DEA eradicates 65,000-plant grow on Yakama Nation land, three held
DEA-led teams eradicated more than 65,000 cannabis plants from three fields on Yakama Nation land near Satus Pass on 26-30 August 2004, a haul valued at about $35 million. Three men from Jalisco, Mexico, hired as gardeners at $100 a day, were apprehended at the site and jailed pending federal court.
Arrested 3Plants destroyed 65,000
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