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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two men were arrested aft a shots-fired telephone successful Chowchilla led to an probe and yet the find of implicit $320,000 worthy of weed vape cartridges, the Madera County Sheriff's Office announced Saturday.
On April 2, deputies accidental they responded to a shots fired telephone successful the country of Avenue 24 and Road 26 successful Chowchilla. The fishy conveyance was located by Chowchilla Police and the occupants were detained.
As they were being detained, deputies reported locating a firearm connected 1 of the suspects not registered to them. The Madera County Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team (MADSET) took implicit the investigation.
As detectives served respective hunt warrants astatine the subject's residences, they reported discovering an amerciable weed cartridge dispensary operating adjacent Chowchilla High School.
MADSET reported yet seizing much than 8,000 weed cartridges, with a thoroughfare worth exceeding $320,000, on with 3 firearms and further grounds of narcotics sales.
Deputies accidental a 34-year-old Madera antheral and a 31-year-old Chowchilla antheral were arrested connected suspicion of charges related to this case.
This probe is ongoing and anyone with accusation regarding this lawsuit is asked to interaction MADSET Detectives astatine 559-675-7770.
“This lawsuit is simply a wide illustration of however amerciable marijuana operations often spell hand-in-hand with guns and violence. The information that this amerciable dispensary was operating adjacent a schoolhouse is concerning. I commend our deputies and the Chowchilla Police Department for their swift action. We volition proceed to people those who enactment profits implicit nationalist safety— particularly erstwhile our children are astatine risk,” said Madera County Sheriff Tyson Pogue.
