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Santa Ana cops raid same marijuana shop where officers were videotaped seemingly eating pot candies
July 8, 2015
Updated 7:26 p.m.
BY SCOTT SCHWEBKE AND ALYSSA DURANTY / STAFF WRITERS
SANTA ANA A number of medical marijuana clinic employees were detained Wednesday after a local collective was raided for the second time in less than two months.
Around 10 a.m., about a half-dozen Santa Ana police officers closed the Sky High Collective, 419 W. Seventeenth St., said an attorney for the dispensary.
This is the same clinic in late May where video camera footage seemingly showed investigating Santa Ana police officers eating marijuana candies as well as a woman officer insulting the disabled woman who runs the collective.
In the aftermath of that May 26 bust, Santa Ana Police Chief Carlos Rojas announced that three officers involved in the raid were placed on administrative leave while the department investigates whether the allegations were true. The raid also led to a lawsuit filed against the Santa Ana Police Department by the business.
Since then, the collective re-opened and continued providing pot to individuals with medical marijuana cards.
Wednesday morning it was shut down again. After the raid, about noon, a worker was seen putting up plywood boards across the front of the dispensary
A worker boards up a door to Sky High Collective, a marijuana dispensary, after it was raided by Santa Ana police on Wednesday.
KEN STEINHARDT, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Stefan Borst-Censullo, the clinics attorney, said he received a called Wednesday morning that the closure was happening. When he arrived, he asked the officers to see the search warrant but he said they refused to show it to him.
Jeff Benson, who witnessed Wednesdays closure, said he saw police officers remove more than 20 brown bags from the collective and place them into nearby police cars.
The bags contained medical marijuana and marijuana edibles, Borst-Censullo said.
Borst-Censullo said he believes the most recent closure is straight up retaliation for the collective making public video footage of the May 26 footage out to the public and for filing the lawsuit.
video of cops
https://youtu.be/MMKPbJz3tVg
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/marijuana-670754-collective-police.html
Register staff writer Alma Fausto contributed to this report
Santa Ana cops raid same marijuana shop where officers were videotaped seemingly eating pot candies
July 8, 2015
Updated 7:26 p.m.
BY SCOTT SCHWEBKE AND ALYSSA DURANTY / STAFF WRITERS
SANTA ANA A number of medical marijuana clinic employees were detained Wednesday after a local collective was raided for the second time in less than two months.
Around 10 a.m., about a half-dozen Santa Ana police officers closed the Sky High Collective, 419 W. Seventeenth St., said an attorney for the dispensary.
This is the same clinic in late May where video camera footage seemingly showed investigating Santa Ana police officers eating marijuana candies as well as a woman officer insulting the disabled woman who runs the collective.
In the aftermath of that May 26 bust, Santa Ana Police Chief Carlos Rojas announced that three officers involved in the raid were placed on administrative leave while the department investigates whether the allegations were true. The raid also led to a lawsuit filed against the Santa Ana Police Department by the business.
Since then, the collective re-opened and continued providing pot to individuals with medical marijuana cards.
Wednesday morning it was shut down again. After the raid, about noon, a worker was seen putting up plywood boards across the front of the dispensary
A worker boards up a door to Sky High Collective, a marijuana dispensary, after it was raided by Santa Ana police on Wednesday.
KEN STEINHARDT, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Stefan Borst-Censullo, the clinics attorney, said he received a called Wednesday morning that the closure was happening. When he arrived, he asked the officers to see the search warrant but he said they refused to show it to him.
Jeff Benson, who witnessed Wednesdays closure, said he saw police officers remove more than 20 brown bags from the collective and place them into nearby police cars.
The bags contained medical marijuana and marijuana edibles, Borst-Censullo said.
Borst-Censullo said he believes the most recent closure is straight up retaliation for the collective making public video footage of the May 26 footage out to the public and for filing the lawsuit.
video of cops
https://youtu.be/MMKPbJz3tVg
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/marijuana-670754-collective-police.html
Register staff writer Alma Fausto contributed to this report
