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Updated: 6:28 AM Jan 26, 2012
16 Arrested By SWAT In Denver-Area Marijuana Case
SWAT teams in the Denver area got an early start Wednesday morning, arresting 16 people allegedly connected with illegally growing marijuana.
Posted: 11:23 AM Jan 25, 2012Reporter: KKTV/CBS4 Email Address: news@kktv.com |
North Metro Drug Task Force officers investigate a Thornton home at the center of an alleged illegal marijuana growing operation. (credit: CBS4)
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Sixteen people allegedly connected with illegally growing marijuana were arrested by SWAT teams in the Denver area Wednesday.
Teams started their work around 6 a.m., CBS4 reports. Most of the 25 targeted homes were in Thornton, Broomfield and Westminster. Four others were in Denver, and one was in Summit County.
Many of the homes were in upscale neighborhoods.
According to CBS4's reporting, the ring leader’s home is in Thornton, where 200 plants were found inside the home. They also found dozens of grow kits and lights.
These arrests by the North Metro Drug Task Force are the result of an investigation that began in the summer of 2011.
Police said the marijuana grown in Colorado ended up in many different states. It was shipped through the U.S. Postal Service.
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@Reality: 1!
We do not need to be having stores selling pot, it should all be shut down and driven out of America and the people who are greedy and try the sale the ideal it will help people and bring money to our failing economy. Stupidly they go on to destroy the things that at one time made this country safe and great, that is before they took God out of schools/business and gave lack of morals promoting benefits for other's gain, or at least that was the sales pitch that was sold and bought by greedy self centered policies & people.
I BELIEVE IT COULD BE A CLEANER WAY OF DOING BUSTESES NOT TO MITCHING THE APMISHERE YOU BRONG INE THE NEIBORHOOD SHOWING THE BARBARIC BRUTILTY.
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