{"id":9965,"date":"2023-12-08T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=5889112"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:57:10","slug":"burglaries-at-over-40-denver-area-marijuana-dispensaries-lead-to-charges-for-members-of-two-organized-crime-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/burglaries-at-over-40-denver-area-marijuana-dispensaries-lead-to-charges-for-members-of-two-organized-crime-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Burglaries at over 40 Denver-area marijuana dispensaries lead to charges for members of two organized crime groups"},"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\/burglaries-at-over-40-denver-area-marijuana-dispensaries-lead-to-charges-for-members-of-two-organized-crime-groups\/\" 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><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/burglaries-at-over-40-denver-area-marijuana-dispensaries-lead-to-charges-for-members-of-two-organized-crime-groups.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Denver District Attorney Beth McCann on Friday announced her office will charge 23 members of two organized crime groups with carjacking and burglarizing more than 40 marijuana dispensaries.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were the result of two law enforcement investigations conducted by the Denver District Attorney\u2019s Office, Denver Police Department, Aurora Police Department, FBI, ATF, the Regional Anti-Violence Enforcement Network and the Violent Criminal Enterprise Task Force, according to a district attorney\u2019s office news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese arrests send an unmistakable message that law enforcement agencies throughout the Denver metro area are committed to working together to disrupt and disband dangerous criminal organizations. The streets of Denver are safer today because of these two investigations and I am grateful to the many law enforcement officers who have worked so hard on these cases to get us to this point,\u201d McCann said.<\/p>\n<p>About $780,000 of cash and property were stolen, and the members also now face charges of aggravated robbery, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms and violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/newsletters\">Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>About $780,000 of cash and property were stolen, and the members of two organized crime groups also now face charges of aggravated robbery, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms and violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7977,7940,10615,10616,6811,6897,8308,7540,7427,1642,7279,7938,2150,77,6814,9,5019,7504,1,3,10617,61,1736],"tags":[7978,7941,10618,10619,6816,6898,8396,7541,7429,4210,7282,7939,4718,2655,6819,5022,7507,10620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965"}],"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=9965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}