List of cannabis seizures
This is a list of cannabis seizures notable for record-setting size or social precedent.
Operation | Agency | Location | Year | Amount and form* | Notes |
Night Train Seizure | US Coast Guard | Atlantic Ocean near Florida | 1978 | 54 tons (108,000 lb) | |
US Coast Guard | Pacific Ocean 150 miles from San Diego | 1984 | 26,000 pounds | yacht Arrakis; largest on West Coast to date[1] | |
Cornbread Mafia seizure | Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (investigator) | 10 Midwest states, based in Kentucky | 1989 | 182 tons (364,000 pounds) valued at $350 million | Over 70 individuals indicted operating 29 farms,[2][3][4] called by federal prosecutors the "largest domestic marijuana producing organization in the nation."[5] |
Operation Green Sweep | US Army/National Guard/Fed agencies | Emerald Triangle, California | 1990 | 1400 plants | first time active-duty troops engaged in counterdrug activities inside US borders[6] |
Operation Conquistador | DEA | Caribbean (multiple) | 2000 | 362 tonnes | DEA coordinated 26 country effort;[7] largest in this table by weight |
Operation Keymer | Local police | Cambridge UK | 2006 | 54 kg (119 lb) | |
Operation Imperial Emperor | DEA | California–Mexico | 2007 | 27,229 pounds | other drugs and $45 million cash seized[1][8] |
Federal/local | Houston | 2007 | 19,000 pounds[1] | seized drugs were being transported in school buses[9] | |
Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan | Kahdahar, Afghanistan | 2008 | 260 tons hashish 520,000 lb† | said to be largest drug seizure in history at the time, worth $400 million[10][11] | |
US interagency? | Queens | 2009 | 50,000 pounds | BC bud, street value $150 million[1] | |
Operation Save our Sierra | State/Federal | Fresno, California | 2009 | 330,000 plants | estimated value $1 billion, largest in this table[1][12] |
RCMP | Montreal | 2010 | 8 tons (16,000 pounds) hashish | found in abandoned trailer[13] | |
Operation Deliverance | DEA | Mexico–US | 2010 | 69 tons | Bilateral[7] |
Cowabungle raid? | Federal police | Tijuana | 2010 | 105 tons | largest seizure in Mexico[14] |
Operation Kruz Control | Federal interagency/local | Arizona | 2012-2013 | 27,000 pounds | yearlong operation |
CBP | Calexico border crossing | 2013 | 35,000 pounds | largest seizure at US-Mexico border[15] | |
Local police | Goodrich, Texas | 2014 | 100,000 plants | largest seizure in Texas history at the time[16] | |
Federal/local | Lipscomb County, Texas | 2015 | 109,000 plants | new state record[17][18] | |
Hong Kong Police Force | Hong Kong | 2017 | 180 kg (400 lb) | largest seizure in HK in a decade[19] |
*Assumed dried leaf or flower material unless otherwise specified.
†May not be independently verified
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "America's 5 biggest pot busts", The Week, June 17, 2010
- ↑ "Pioneer Press: Search Results".
- ↑ "Schenectady Gazette - Google News Archive Search".
- ↑ "Lawrence Journal-World - Google News Archive Search".
- ↑ "Kentucky New Era - Google News Archive Search".
- ↑ Bishop, Katherine (August 10, 1990). "Military Takes Part in Drug Sweep And Reaps Criticism and a Lawsuit". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- 1 2 Kleiman & Hawdon 2011, p. 212.
- ↑ Richard Marosi and Tracy Wilkinson (July 28, 2011), "Suspicion in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel", The Los Angeles Times
- ↑ IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES SEIZE 19,000 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA, US Fed News Service, March 5, 2007 – via HighBeam (subscription required)
- ↑ "World's biggest drug seizure in Afghanistan", Daily Telegraph, June 11, 2008
- ↑ Afghans' 260-ton hashish bust could be record: Worth tops $400 million, NATO says, Associated Press, June 11, 2008 – via NBC News
- ↑ Nick Valencia (July 23, 2009), $1 billion in marijuana seized in California, CNN
- ↑ Nearly 8 tons of hashish seized in Canada, NBC News, September 15, 2010
- ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/18/mexico.drug.seizure/
- ↑ http://fox59.com/2015/03/02/feds-seize-15-tons-of-marijuana-in-second-largest-weed-bust-ever-at-a-u-s-boarder-crossing/
- ↑ East Texas marijuana fields valued at $175 million, Associated Press, July 30, 2014 – via The Cannabist (Denver Post)
- ↑ "109K-plant marijuana bust could be largest of its kind in Texas history", Amarillo Globe-News, June 9, 2015
- ↑ "109K-plant marijuana bust could be largest of its kind in Texas history", Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, June 10, 2015
- ↑ "Largest Hong Kong cannabis haul in 10 years nets 180kg worth HK$29 million", South China Morning Post, January 5, 2017
Sources
- Kleiman, M.A.R.; Hawdon, J.E. (2011). Encyclopedia of Drug Policy. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-5063-3824-8. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
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