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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Over 20 members of a statewide retail transgression enactment were arrested aft stealing astir $1 cardinal worthy of marijuana from dispensaries crossed the authorities successful an organized retail transgression operation, including successful Fresno and Merced counties, according to the California Department of Justice.
According to the California DOJ, "Operation Sticky Fingers" identified 22 suspects arsenic liable for stealing 975 pounds of marijuana from at slightest 15 dispensaries crossed 9 counties.
The DOJ says the radical burglarized dispensaries successful Santa Cruz County, Monterey County, Solano County, Kern County, San Luis Obispo County, Fresno County, Merced County, Sonoma County, and San Diego County.
“These burglaries are damaging the livelihoods of law-abiding concern owners, and we volition not tolerate it," Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said. "Our detectives person done outstanding enactment connected these cases, and with the assistance and collaboration of implicit a twelve different agencies, these individuals volition present person to reply for their crimes.”
Search warrants were served connected July 17, resulting successful the arrests of 22 alleged conspirators and the seizure of implicit 50 pounds of marijuana. On July 22, the DOJ filed transgression complaints charging the suspects with commercialized burglary, expansive theft, organized retail theft, and conspiracy to perpetrate a crime.
