DEA and Costa Mesa police raid Bayside Patients dispensary, arrest three
About 15 DEA agents with Costa Mesa police and firefighters raided the Bayside Patients dispensary in Costa Mesa on 8 March 2012, arresting three people and seizing about 10 pounds of marijuana and cash from a safe sawed open outside.
🇺🇸 Costa Mesa, California · California, United States
Federal and local officers served a search warrant at the Bayside Patients Association dispensary at 1799 Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa at about 11:30 a.m. on 8 March 2012.[1]About 15 DEA agents joined some six Costa Mesa police officers and 12 firefighters at the shop, and three people were arrested, according to medical-marijuana advocates; officials would confirm only that a federal warrant was served.[1][2]The raid took about 10 pounds of marijuana and less than $1,000 in cash from a safe that firefighters helped saw open on the sidewalk.[1][2]
The raid came one day after the deadline for Costa Mesa collectives to shut down voluntarily, following similar federal raids in January, and months after the city attorney had asked the US attorney to intervene against the city’s dispensaries.[1][2]The dispensary’s owners had received a $1,000 code-enforcement violation the day before, and customers kept arriving hours later unaware the shop had been raided and closed.[1]
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