DEA raids Hayward collective and arrests the Norton brothers
DEA and IRS agents raided the Compassionate Collective of Alameda County near Hayward on the morning of 30 October 2007 and arrested brothers Winslow and Abraham Norton. The brothers were indicted for conspiring to distribute more than 220 pounds of marijuana, alongside money-laundering counts.
🇺🇸 Cherryland, near Hayward, California · California, United States
Federal agents arrested brothers Winslow Norton, 26, of Lafayette and Abraham Norton, 23, of Oakland early on Tuesday 30 October 2007 after indicting them for running a multimillion-dollar drug operation from a Hayward-area medical marijuana collective.[1]At 6 a.m. that morning DEA and IRS agents raided the Compassionate Collective of Alameda County at 21222 Mission Boulevard near Blossom Way, just north of Hayward.[1]The brothers were indicted for conspiring to distribute more than 220 pounds of marijuana alongside money-laundering counts.[1]
The collective had opened in Hayward under a county ordinance licensing it with two other dispensaries, and paid about 4 million dollars in sales tax on 26.3 million dollars of revenue in a 2007 business year cut short by the raid.[2]The raid also seized several hundred pounds of marijuana and 385,000 dollars the collective had banked to pay sales tax, according to its manager Brian Everett.[2]The owners faced 21 felony counts including intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, maintaining a drug-involved premises, money laundering and a firearm count tied to their mandated armed guard; their father Michael Norton and Everett were indicted later too.[2]
Case data
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A later account dates the raid 31 October, the day of the DEA's announcement; this report uses Tuesday 30 October from the contemporary indictments report.
Seizure accounts differ between several hundred pounds of marijuana plus 385,000 dollars banked for sales tax in one account and the indictment's 220-pound conspiracy figure; no exact seized weight is recorded here.
The opened sources report indictments but no trial outcome; the brothers' father and the dispensary manager were indicted later too.
No photograph of this raid with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
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