{"id":8012,"date":"2018-01-18T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2923426&amp;preview_id=2923426"},"modified":"2018-01-18T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T17:04:47","slug":"hundreds-of-plants-seized-in-illegal-marijuana-raids-in-el-paso-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/hundreds-of-plants-seized-in-illegal-marijuana-raids-in-el-paso-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of plants seized in illegal marijuana raids in El Paso County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/hundreds-of-plants-seized-in-illegal-marijuana-raids-in-el-paso-county\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Jan 18, 2018, 8:40 am \u2022 Updated: Jan 18, 2018, 1:11 pm <span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"author\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/author\/ap\/\" rel=\"author\">The Associated Press<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>FALCON, Colo. \u2014 Authorities say they seized marijuana, guns and cash after raiding three illegal growing operations in a rural area northeast of Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office says 175 plants, 5 pounds (2 kilograms) of processed marijuana, two firearms and $5,000 in cash were taken during the Wednesday raids near Falcon.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say one person was arrested and one of the guns was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s office spokeswoman Jacqueline Kirby told The Gazette that a priority of the sheriff is \u201creally hitting these illegal marijuana grows hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby says authorities have observed an increase in violent crime connected to illegal grows.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities seized 233 marijuana plants and arrested two people after raiding another grow in eastern El Paso County last week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Authorities raided three illegal marijuana grows in the Falcon area Wednesday, seizing 175 plants, 5 pounds of processed marijuana, firearms and $5,000 in cash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6812,7263,6813,77,6814,6933,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6817,7264,6818,2655,6819,6934,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}