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I don't understand why you said no local leo was involved cuz all three links say they were even the link you posted said Oakland County Sheriffs were involved

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Sounds like the feds followed the money trail out of Michigan, then doubled back.

 

Now if the dispensarys want to operate why don't they do like we did and fight for their rights under separate legislation and stop riding on our backs and bringing us grief!

 

Yes we need dispensaries but ones that are patient oriented have set standards of quality control and operation, aren't in it just for the money, and associate with local caregivers.

 

If they would of had some type of business plan and at least give the state the respect of approaching Lasing in an up front manner instead of trying to flood Michigan with imported sub standard cartel marijuana, they may be still open.

 

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The opinions of the author expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of The Michigan Medical Marijuana Association

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Detroit News Article

 

Detroit News Update with more info.

 

Last Updated: April 12. 2011 5:27PM.

 

Feds raid home of Packard plant owner in wide-ranging pot probe

 

Robert Snell and Mike Martindale / The Detroit News

 

Federal drug agents have raided the home of and a medical marijuana dispensary owned by controversial businessman Romel Casab, who also owns the long-shuttered Packard Motor Car Co. plant.

 

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official confirmed agents executed search warrants today at Casab's home along Benstein Road in Commerce Township and his CareGivers of America marijuana dispensary on 12 Mile in Novi.

 

 

The two raids were part of a broader DEA operation targeting at least four other locations in Walled Lake and Detroit, The Detroit News has learned.

 

The DEA raided a second CareGivers dispensary along Decker Road in Walled Lake. The building is owned by 1020 Decker LLC, a company headed by Casab lawyer Barry A. Steinway of Bingham Farms, according to state business records.

 

Also raided today: the Bayside Sports Grille on East Walled Lake Drive in Walled Lake and Coliseum Bar & Grill strip club on Eight Mile in Detroit.

 

The Walled Lake sports bar and Detroit strip club are owned by Walled Lake businessman Johni Semma, whose home overlooking Walled Lake also was raided by agents today. Agents hauled away his 2001 Harley Davidson today from the Novi marijuana facility owned by Casab, along with a Ferrari sports car and 1928 Studebaker.

 

Casab made headlines last fall when he sued a local art gallery that removed a mural at the plant reportedly painted by famed graffiti artist Banksy.

 

Casab, a land speculator with varied business interests, is listed on state business records as resident agent of CareGivers of America LLC, which is based in an office on 12 Mile in Novi. He formed the company in November 2009.

 

The search warrants are sealed in U.S. District Court in Detroit and DEA group supervisor Andrew Eiseman declined comment about what prompted the raids or what items were being seized by agents. He also declined comment about whether the raids are part of a broader crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries.

 

"I can't comment on anything," he said. "It's an ongoing investigation."

 

Casab could not be reached for comment today.

 

Along with CareGivers, Casab is president of Bioresource Inc., which sued art gallery 555 Nonprofit Studio and Gallery. After Bioresource sued to reclaim the graffiti mural, Detroit officials threatened to demolish the Packard plant and bill Casab.

 

The 100-year-old plant is one of Detroit's most notorious symbols of decline and despair.

 

Its ownership has been disputed in court for years.

 

Casab has drawn federal scrutiny before.

 

As recently as July 2004, the FBI was investigating complaints that Metro Detroit's suburban bus system had repeatedly overpaid one of Casab's companies.

 

Employees claimed that the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) overpaid the International Bus Center in New Haven, which is owned by Casab.

 

The Walled Lake search started after 7 a.m. today, agents said.

 

In Novi, police still were at a CareGivers facility on West 12 Mile, west of Novi Road about 11:40 a.m. today. Several large trucks were at the facility, backed up to large bays. The site is in an isolated area.

 

The facility's building had no signs or banners to announce it was open for business.

 

Police at the scene in Novi declined comment. A CareGivers employee also declined comment.

 

The raids come eight months after seven people were arrested in a medical marijuana crackdown in Waterford Township. The seven were arraigned Thursday in Oakland County Circuit Court.

 

Under state law, people who have obtained physician approval and state-issued cards are permitted to possess and use marijuana.

 

Licensed caregivers are permitted to grow up to 12 plants in controlled situations and sell marijuana to up to five patients.

 

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try not to give us a bad rap-we are all really really mad but this is supposed to be a peaceful movement of patients :notfair:

 

Yep the Jews were also peaceful in Nazi Germany look were that got them and the DEA act just like Nazis in fact its really hard to see any diffrence

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WALLED LAKE, Mich. (WXYZ) - Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency raided eight locations in Metro-Detroit Tuesday including a large medical marijuana facility located in Walled Lake.At approximately 7:00 a.m., agents dressed in tactical gear, entered the Caregivers of America facility located on Decker Road.The facility is a medical marijuana dispensary which offers up the controversial medication and other items related to the use of it.Agents from the DEA, IRS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement officers descended on locations in Walled Lake, Commerce Township, Novi, Detroit and Romulus.Two homes, a restaurant and a strip club were among the places targeted in connection with the investigation that agents will say very little about because the information, we're told, is still under seal.Some of the items seized at one of the homes include a black Bentley, a silver Ferrari, a Harley Davidson motorcycle and several long guns.Federal agents did take items from the dispensary.There are no known arrests at this time.

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Obama has shut down more dispensaries than Bush did in EIGHT YEARS.

 

2/27/2009 5:42:59 PM ET

Supporters of programs to provide legal marijuana to patients with painful medical conditions are celebrating Attorney General Eric Holder’s statement this week that the Drug Enforcement Administration would end its raids on state-approved marijuana dispensaries.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29433708/ns/health-health_care/

 

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WALLED LAKE, Mich. (WXYZ) - Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency raided eight locations in Metro-Detroit Tuesday including a large medical marijuana facility located in Walled Lake.At approximately 7:00 a.m., agents dressed in tactical gear, entered the Caregivers of America facility located on Decker Road.The facility is a medical marijuana dispensary which offers up the controversial medication and other items related to the use of it.Agents from the DEA, IRS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement officers descended on locations in Walled Lake, Commerce Township, Novi, Detroit and Romulus.Two homes, a restaurant and a strip club were among the places targeted in connection with the investigation that agents will say very little about because the information, we're told, is still under seal.Some of the items seized at one of the homes include a black Bentley, a silver Ferrari, a Harley Davidson motorcycle and several long guns.Federal agents did take items from the dispensary.There are no known arrests at this time.

 

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That is such a stupid statement. If they weren't doing wrong the cops wouldn't have been there.

 

You think Bob Redden did something wrong? How about Larry King?

 

If you're worried about losing access to your medicine, you have to least recognize who will do it, if you're to stand any chance of stopping them. It will be the GOVERNMENT, not some dispensary owner. The government may use dispensaries as an excuse, but it will still be the government that takes your medicine. After decades of prohibition you should realize that it's impossible to crack down and stop any perceived "illegal" activity. $50 billion a year in domestic spending, ad blitzes and support of the most powerful military on earth, and the US gov has failed to even impact cocaine and heroin smuggling. You really think some grassroots movement, with FAR fewer resources, will be able to moralize to and sway enough greedy/foolhardy individuals to keep the gov from finding an excuse to take away our medicine? No way, it's been tried for years and accomplished nothing. The only thing that can be done is to get the government to wipe these ridiculous laws off the books. So save your energy for the real enemy! Yelling at sloppy dispensary owners and drug dealing caregivers is wasted breath. <_<

 

Also, you're awful quick to believe the likes of Jessica Cooper and Bouchard! Oakland county is where these busts happened, and they were probably the ones that determined these operations to be "illegal," thus inviting federal attention. Some other members on this site are under indictment by that same county and I think they might beg to differ from your blind acceptance of the accusations made. :rolleyes:

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That is such a stupid statement. If they weren't doing wrong the cops wouldn't have been there.

 

Wow...I wonder if you'll feel that way when the feds show up at your front door? Remember, to them a person growing 1 plant is just as "wrong" as a person growing 1000. I can't believe a person knowledgable in the history of marijuana, prohibition, and/or policing in this country could make such a statement..

 

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