Nearly two dozen federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents in tactical gear descended on the New Remedies dispensing collective in San Francisco and at least half a dozen related locations on 3 October 2006, seizing medicine and making more than a dozen arrests.[1] The Mission Street dispensary at 1760 Mission was the focus and a warehouse was also targeted, while agents visiting the collective’s administrative offices at 1710 Franklin in Oakland were seen taking two women away.[1] NBC Bay Area, reporting the Mission Street raid as Mission Caregivers at 1756 Mission Street, said agents loaded computers, printers and boxes labeled “MJ & Hash” into a van around 1 p.m. as part of a large-scale trafficking investigation.[2] Four people were arrested and one person was detained in those Mission Street raids, as about 20 protesters chanted outside.[2] The U.S. attorney for the district appeared at one of the day’s raids.[2] The sweep was the third medical-marijuana enforcement action in California that week, after a joint action against the California Healthcare Collective in Modesto and a raid on North Valley Discount Caregivers in Granada Hills, Los Angeles.[1]