<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Washington, United States: Cannabis Enforcement Tracker</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/us/wa/</link><description>New reports of cannabis enforcement in Washington, United States.</description><language>en</language><item><title>70-year-old arrested as 2,700 marijuana plants seized near Monroe</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/monroe-snohomish-county-2700-plants-arrest/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/monroe-snohomish-county-2700-plants-arrest/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Seizure</category><description>Washington, United States, 2026-11-06. 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.</description></item><item><title>Accomplice in fatal Tacoma dispensary robbery sentenced to 15 years</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tacoma-world-of-weed-murder-accomplice-15-years/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tacoma-world-of-weed-murder-accomplice-15-years/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sentence</category><description>Washington, United States, 2026-01-06. 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.</description></item><item><title>Three Pierce County grow sites raided, 2,000 plants seized, seven held</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/pierce-county-three-site-grow-seven-arrests-2025/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/pierce-county-three-site-grow-seven-arrests-2025/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Washington, United States, 2025-12-05. 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.</description></item><item><title>Task force raids Chinese-run grows across Grays Harbor and seizes 32,449 plants</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/grays-harbor-green-jade-32449-plants-2017/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/grays-harbor-green-jade-32449-plants-2017/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Washington, United States, 2017-11-28. 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.</description></item><item><title>Federal case against Kettle Falls Five medical growers ends in dismissal</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/kettle-falls-five-dismissed-2017/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/kettle-falls-five-dismissed-2017/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Prosecution</category><description>Washington, United States, 2017-10-16. 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.</description></item><item><title>Easter egg hunt disturbance leads to 3 arrests, 45 lb pot seizure</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/salmon-creek-easter-egg-hunt-marijuana-raid-2016/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/salmon-creek-easter-egg-hunt-marijuana-raid-2016/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Arrest</category><description>Washington, United States, 2016-03-26. 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.</description></item><item><title>At least 14 medical-marijuana dispensaries raided across Puget Sound</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/puget-sound-dispensary-raids-2011/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/puget-sound-dispensary-raids-2011/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Washington, United States, 2011-11-15. 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.</description></item><item><title>Raids destroy 28,000 cannabis plants in Columbia County</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/eckler-mountain-hartsock-raids-2011/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/eckler-mountain-hartsock-raids-2011/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Eradication</category><description>Washington, United States, 2011-08-18. 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.</description></item><item><title>Marc Emery gets five years in a US prison for cannabis seeds</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/marc-emery-seattle-five-years-2010/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/marc-emery-seattle-five-years-2010/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sentence</category><description>Washington, United States, 2010-09-10. 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.</description></item><item><title>Operation Green Reaper seized 4,578 plants in 13 King County grow raids</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/green-reaper-king-county-2008/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/green-reaper-king-county-2008/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Raid</category><description>Washington, United States, 2008-09-10. 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.</description></item><item><title>16,742-plant cartel grow raided in Ross Lake recreation area</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ross-lake-nra-16742-plants-2008/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ross-lake-nra-16742-plants-2008/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Eradication</category><description>Washington, United States, 2008-08-14. 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.</description></item><item><title>Washington destroys more than 130,000 marijuana plants in 2006</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/washington-130000-plants-2006/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/washington-130000-plants-2006/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Eradication</category><description>Washington, United States, 2006-12-30. 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.</description></item><item><title>Operation Frozen Timber breaks helicopter rings; 8,000 lb seized</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/operation-frozen-timber-bellingham-2006/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/operation-frozen-timber-bellingham-2006/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Seizure</category><description>Washington, United States, 2006-06-29. 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.</description></item><item><title>Washington seized a record 135,323 marijuana plants in 2005</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/washington-record-135323-plants-2005/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/washington-record-135323-plants-2005/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Eradication</category><description>Washington, United States, 2006-02-16. 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.</description></item><item><title>Tacoma man jailed 15 years for ferris-wheel grow operation</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tacoma-latham-ferris-wheel-grow-sentence/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tacoma-latham-ferris-wheel-grow-sentence/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sentence</category><description>Washington, United States, 2006-01-18. 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.</description></item><item><title>Vancouver man jailed five years for armed marijuana grow</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/vancouver-ferryman-grow-firearms-sentence/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/vancouver-ferryman-grow-firearms-sentence/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sentence</category><description>Washington, United States, 2005-02-18. 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.</description></item><item><title>DEA eradicates 65,000-plant grow on Yakama Nation land, three held</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/yakama-satus-pass-65000-plants-2004/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/yakama-satus-pass-65000-plants-2004/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Eradication</category><description>Washington, United States, 2004-08-30. 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.</description></item></channel></rss>