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Santa Barbara Police Target 2 Marijuana Dispensaries
Santa Barbara police officers and detectives served search warrants Wednesday morning at two Santa Barbara marijuana dispensaries.
The operation followed a lengthy investigation of the dispensaries’ adherence to the provisions of the Compassionate Use Act.
Court-issued search warrants were issued at The Healing Center, 1437 San Andres St., and Pacific Coast Collective, 331 N. Milpas St.
Detectives found evidence that the marijuana dispensaries were operating in violation of the Compassionate Use Act, and as such were operating as illegal marijuana dealers.
Juan Carlos Solis, 32, and Sinthia Alba Martinez, 24, co-owners of The Healing Center, was arrested for cultivation, possession of marijuana for sale. and criminal conspiracy.
Charles Jeffrey Restivo, 31, owner of the Pacific Coast Collective, was arrested for cultivation and possession for sales of marijuana.
In addition to searching the dispensaries, police served search warrants in the 700 block of West Carrillo Street, the 1100 block of San Andres Street and the 100 block of Ocean View in Carpinteria. The locations were either residences or storage locations used by the parties arrested.
Police seized 45 pounds of marijuana, 12,000 marijuana plants ranging in size from 6-inch seedlings to fully mature 5-foot plants, 1½ pounds of concentrated marijuana, also called hashish, and $8,000 in cash.
In addition to this operation, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department and the Ventura County Combined Agency Taskforce conducted searches at marijuana dispensaries in Goleta and Summerland and at a residence in Thousand Oaks.
The Santa Barbara Police Department doesn’t want to interfere with legitimate marijuana dispensaries operating within the provisions of the Compassionate Use Act, but any marijuana dispensary that doesn’t follow the law will be considered an illegal marijuana dealer.
— Paul McCaffrey is a public information officer for the Santa Barbara Police Department.
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» on 02.19.10 @ 12:14 AM
There is no controlling these dealers. Our city council should spend their time lobbying the county and the state to stop the nonsense, rather than pretending they have the power or resources to control this mess. Let some less spectacular city try these experiments.
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» on 02.19.10 @ 05:51 AM
BLAZE IT
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» on 02.19.10 @ 11:27 AM
@ city at fault
Clearly, from this article there IS controlling of these dealers, otherwise they would still be doing what they are doing. If you get rid of the clubs, the mess is just going to get worse and be WAY harder to control. These people have to operate within the law, and it makes it a lot eaiser to enforce, when they do not do things by the book. If city council got rid of this “nonesense” would it really stop people from smoking?
I dont think so…....it would just bring back the illegal drug trade and all the mexican drug cartels would be so happy.
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» on 02.19.10 @ 12:16 PM
How is controlling these dispensaries any different than controlling the 100’s of liquor stores we have? Are we saying we can manage to control 100’s of liquor stores, and cannot manage 5-10 dispensaries?
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» on 02.19.10 @ 07:34 PM
First of all the article clearly fails to state just how these individuals broke the law. It is time for people to realize that the state has a law regarding legal medical marijuana. some might not like the law. i dont like a lot of laws myself, but you know what? I have to abide by all the laws. Police and city councils do not have the right to pick and choose which laws (ie. the ones they believe in) to uphold. We as legal marijuana users have the right to be protected by the same police officers as everyone else. The law give docotors the right to recommend whatever they see fit for each patient to possess. This is no different than certain people needing more pain medication than others. No place in the law does it state how much one person may possess. Limits which were later added by Senate Bill 420 have recently been deemed by the State Supreme Court to be illegal. It just hasn’t been completly removed from the books. If these individuals where running an illegal opperation the courts will decide. No facts have been given regarding legal issues behind the search warrants being issued. True legal dealers sit behind window at Walgreens and Longs. Parents need to check their medicine cabinets at home because your kids are getting high on pills these days people.
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» on 02.19.10 @ 09:29 PM
Maybe people are tired having their huts blown up and their forests burnt down from these guys who want to use butane.
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