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DEA May Seize Retired Couples $1.5 Million Property Because Renter Sold Pot

Saturday, February 9, 2013 7:27
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On July 13 and 14, stoners across Southern California will flock to the Click|keyword[Anaheim+Convention+Center]” href=”http://www.ocweekly.com/related/to/Anaheim+Convention+Center/” target=”_blank” title=”Anaheim Convention Center”>Anaheim Convention Center for the Kush Expo, a $20-per-ticket pot-stravaganza of all things cannabis. Vendors will display their wares—everything from bongs and hookahs to hydroponic growing equipment and nutrients—and doctors will be on hand to write medical-marijuana recommendations for folks in the mood to smoke weed in the tented “medication area.” There will even be a “hot girl” contest for patients with presumably sore eyes.

But don’t let this event let you think Click|keyword[Anaheim]” href=”http://www.ocweekly.com/related/to/Anaheim/” target=”_blank” title=”Anaheim”>Anaheim is pot-friendly. Despite allowing the Kush Expo to operate annually since 2010, the city banned medical-marijuana dispensaries in 2007 and has extended the prohibition every year since. Last year, the city also called in the Click|keyword[Drug+Enforcement+Administration]” href=”http://www.ocweekly.com/related/to/Drug+Enforcement+Administration/” target=”_blank” title=”Drug Enforcement Administration”>U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to help crack down on pot clubs. In August, the DEA sent threatening letters to dozens of landlords and filed three asset-forfeiture lawsuits, including one against the owner of a $1.5 million building on Ball Road.

As it happens, the building owners are the kind of clients whom defense attorneys love to represent: law-abiding citizens. Specifically, they are married, in their late middle age and from Irvine. The wife is a dentist; the husband a computer engineer who holds a government security clearance, which is why the latter asked to remain anonymous. Although he feels he has done nothing wrong, he explains, even being accused of allowing his property to be used to break the law is embarrassing to him.

According to the engineer, he and his wife purchased the Anaheim building, which has suites for up to 12 offices, in 2003 and that her dental practice was located there. (She has since relocated her office to Lake Forest.) Over the years, they’ve rented to a variety of tenants, from insurance companies to an immigration service. In 2009, Click|keyword[David+Ogden]” href=”http://www.ocweekly.com/related/to/David+Ogden/” target=”_blank” title=”David Ogden”>Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, presumably speaking on behalf of the newly inaugurated Barack Obama, issued the so-called Ogden memo, instructing federal prosecutors to not target medical-marijuana patients. California saw an immediate explosion of cannabis dispensaries. Anaheim was no exception, and the engineer quickly found himself fielding offers from marijuana collectives.

 

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  • if the property in question is not located on property owned by or ceded to the federal government.. this is an illegal action by the DEA!
    Territorial jurisdiction limits WHERE a federal agency has jurisdiction and those limitations are quite definitive!

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