Sacramento dispensary raided, 800 plants seized and operator Fowler charged
Sacramento deputies and DEA agents raided the Alternative Specialties dispensary and three homes on 7 July 2005, seizing about 800 indoor plants worth $500,000 and two loaded guns. Owner Louis Fowler was charged federally with manufacturing marijuana and weapons counts after the county denied his business licence.
🇺🇸 Sacramento and Rio Linda, Sacramento County, California · California, United States
Sacramento County sheriff’s detectives served state search warrants at four
locations on 7 July 2005, including the Alternative Specialties marijuana
distribution centre on Folsom Boulevard, after owner Louis Wayne Fowler, 51,
of Rio Linda was denied a county business licence.[1]Finding evidence of
federal drug violations, they called in the DEA, which served two federal
warrants and found two indoor growing operations holding about 800 plants
worth some $500,000.[1][2]
Fowler was arrested carrying a loaded handgun and a loaded assault pistol
and was booked into Sacramento County Jail on state felon-in-possession
charges.[1]He was then charged federally with manufacturing a controlled
substance, possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking, and being
a felon in possession of firearms, in a case prosecuted by the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in Sacramento.[1]
The raid capped a four-month investigation by the sheriff’s office and the
county district attorney’s office into the unlicensed business.[1]By May
2007 Fowler was free pending trial, with a status hearing scheduled for 1
June before Judge Edward Garcia in Sacramento federal court.[2]
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