DEA raids Arts District Healing Center dispensary in Los Angeles
Twenty DEA agents raided the Arts District Healing Center dispensary near Little Tokyo in Los Angeles on the night of 11 October 2007, searching the building for over three hours and seizing marijuana and cash. No one was arrested; weeks later the dispensary sued the DEA over threats to its landlord.
🇺🇸 Arts District, Los Angeles, California · California, United States
Twenty agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration raided the Arts District Healing Center in the 600 block of East 1st Street, in the loft district near Little Tokyo, on the night of Thursday 11 October 2007.[1]DEA spokesman Jose Martinez said the agents searched the two-story building for three and a quarter hours.[1]They seized marijuana and cash, in amounts still undetermined late that night, and made no arrests.[1]
The dispensary’s lawyer said the DEA had threatened its landlord with legal action unless it evicted the dispensary, with a hearing due the following Monday.[1]On 6 December 2007 the center filed a federal lawsuit saying the DEA had extorted the landlord with letters threatening imprisonment and property seizure.[2]The suit said agents executed the search warrant on 11 October, four days before the scheduled eviction trial, and froze several of the center’s bank accounts.[2]
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