{"id":9384,"date":"2021-06-10T22:34:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/06\/10\/21-indicted-in-colorado-in-connection-with-international-black-market-marijuana-and-money-laundering-scheme\/135311\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T22:34:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:34:59","slug":"21-indicted-in-colorado-in-connection-with-international-black-market-marijuana-and-money-laundering-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/21-indicted-in-colorado-in-connection-with-international-black-market-marijuana-and-money-laundering-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"21 indicted in Colorado in connection with international black market marijuana and money laundering scheme"},"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\/21-indicted-in-colorado-in-connection-with-international-black-market-marijuana-and-money-laundering-scheme\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20131203__20131204_Z00_OP03G_PADILLAp1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/21-indicted-in-colorado-in-connection-with-international-black-market-marijuana-and-money-laundering-scheme.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/21-indicted-in-colorado-in-connection-with-international-black-market-marijuana-and-money-laundering-scheme-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/06\/10\/21-indicted-in-colorado-in-connection-with-international-black-market-marijuana-and-money-laundering-scheme\/135311\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal and local law enforcement on Thursday announced the takedown of a black market marijuana and money laundering scheme in Colorado \u2014 an operation comprising 21 individuals growing millions of dollars worth of illicit pot across metro Denver and funneling their profits back to China through social media apps.<\/p>\n<p>Drug investigators seized thousands of plants, hundreds of pounds of packaged marijuana and roughly $1 million during the investigation that began in August 2020, authorities said in a news conference at the 18th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office in Centennial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to emphasize that while this is a micro-cell in our state of Colorado \u2026 we believe that this is going on on a macro-level across the entire United States, said John Kellner, the district attorney for Arapahoe and Douglas counties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2021\/06\/10\/black-market-marijuana-money-laundering-indictment\/\">Read the rest of this story on DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal and local law enforcement on Thursday announced the takedown of a black market marijuana and money laundering scheme in Colorado \u2014 an operation comprising 21 individuals growing millions of dollars worth of illicit pot across metro Denver and funneling their profits back to China through social media apps. Drug investigators seized thousands of plants, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[851,7495,233,6814,9,8189,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[3424,7496,2811,6819,8190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384"}],"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=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}