Half a million pounds of cannabis seized at White City warehouses
Oregon State Police seized roughly 500,000 pounds of processed marijuana worth an estimated $500 million from five warehouses in White City on 18 November 2021, the largest such bust in southern Oregon, detaining over 100 people and seizing a firearm.
🇺🇸 1300 block of Antelope Road, White City, Jackson County · Oregon, United States
On 18 November 2021 troopers of the Oregon State Police Southwest Region Drug Enforcement Section served a search warrant on five industrial-sized warehouses on Antelope Road in White City, north of Medford, and seized roughly 500,000 pounds (about 227 tonnes) of processed marijuana.[1][2]The two-day operation, assisted by county teams, the Medford police and the Drug Enforcement Administration, also turned up a firearm.[2]
State police called it an epic amount of illegal processed marijuana and conservatively valued it at about $500 million depending on where it would have been exported.[1][2]More than 100 people found at the site were detained, identified, interviewed and released, including migrant workers living there in poor conditions without running water.[2]
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Seized marijuana at the White City processing site. Photo: Oregon State Police via Officer.comPhoto details
More than 100 people were detained, identified and released at the scene, several of them migrant workers housed on site without running water; no arrests or charges were reported.
State police described the investigation as ongoing with more information to come; no outcomes were reported.
A 70-year-old man was arrested and booked into jail after Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board officers and Snohomish County deputies searched a property near Monroe on 6 November 2026. Investigators seized approximately 2,700 live and dried marijuana plants from what they described as an unlicensed cannabis production operation.
HSI in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, said two go-fast vessels carrying about 3,200 kilograms of marijuana and 3,188 kilograms of cocaine were intercepted under Operation Iron Current, a case against a Colombia-based trafficking organization. ICE put the street value of the haul at more than $80.5 million.
Indiana State Police seized nearly 1,000 grams of suspected marijuana alongside cocaine, fentanyl and guns in Operation Iron Scale raids on 3 November 2026 across Fort Wayne, Huntertown and Noblesville. Twelve people were arrested on felony conspiracy and narcotics-dealing charges, with no separate marijuana charges reported.
Waynesville police seized more than $56,000 worth of THC products said to have been sold or given to middle and high school children, arresting one person. Police said many items contained marijuana or THC extracts in youth-friendly packaging and warned parents about their appearance.
