Oregon State Police raided an unlicensed butane hash-oil extraction lab operating in a makeshift outdoor structure at a registered medical grow site near Dexter on 23 October 2019, seizing about 216 pounds of cannabis extracts, two extraction machines, ten firearms and counterfeit-vape items.
🇺🇸 38000 block of Dexter Road, near Dexter, Lane County · Oregon, United States
Cannabis
98 kg
Agencies
Oregon State Police, Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission +2
On 23 October 2019, the Oregon State Police Northwest Region Marijuana team
executed a search warrant at a rural property in the 38000 block of Dexter
Road near Dexter.[1][2]Inspectors from the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis
Commission’s medical marijuana division had found the illegal extraction
operation during a compliance check of the site, which was registered as an
Oregon Medical Marijuana Program grow but was not licensed to process cannabis.[1][2]
The extraction lab was running in a makeshift outdoor structure with unsanitary
conditions, using butane hash-oil machines to make concentrated cannabis oil.[1][2]Officers seized about 216 pounds (about 98 kg) of cannabis extracts and
two butane hash-oil machines valued at $120,000.[1][2]
Ten firearms, one of them reported stolen, were seized from the property along
with items relating to the manufacture and sale of counterfeit vape cartridges.[2]The federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s Eugene office and the Lane
County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the raid.[1][2]Charges of unlawful
possession of a marijuana item, unlawful delivery of a marijuana item and
unlawful manufacture of a marijuana item against two suspects were forwarded to
the Lane County district attorney for consideration.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No names were published because the suspects were withheld pending review by the Lane County district attorney, and no filed charges or court outcome are reported here.
Whether the seized counterfeit-vape items contained cannabis was not stated, so they are kept out of the cannabis figures.
The KEX page carries a photograph that could not be verified as showing this raid, so no media entry is recorded here.
CHP's warrant service team searched a home in the 400 block of Bear Canyon Road northwest of Garberville on 9 November 2026 as part of a multi-agency narcotics investigation involving the DEA, HSI and FBI. The CHP said it did not lead the probe and would not confirm the target, the material officers shovelled, or any arrests.
North Port police arrested Nicholas Eddy, 29, and Jessica Trach, 28, after their Special Investigations Unit searched a home on Narcissus Terrace and found marijuana packaged for sale along with cocaine, suspected LSD, steroids and pills. Both were accused of drug possession for sale, running a drug house and possessing drug paraphernalia.
Lexington town police and state and federal partners searched five vape and hemp shops on 5 November 2026 in an undercover investigation into sales of illicit narcotics and drug paraphernalia. A shop owner says officers emptied cases, seized her phone and more than $3,300 in cash, and she plans to sue; no arrests were reported.
Four agencies served simultaneous search warrants at two Quincy addresses on 5 November 2026 in a drug-trafficking investigation, and police announced probable cause to arrest two men, one of them on a cannabis sale allegation. No drug quantities were disclosed and police did not confirm either man was in custody.
