List of cannabis seizures
This is a list of cannabis seizures notable for record-setting size or social precedent.
Operation | Agency | Location | Year | Amount and form* | Notes |
U.S.–Colombia joint operation | Guajira Peninsula, Colombia | 1978 | 570+ tons | largest drug seizure to date by a factor of 10, worth $200 million[1][2] | |
Night Train Seizure | US Coast Guard | Atlantic Ocean near Florida | 1978 | 54 tons (108,000 lb) | |
US Coast Guard | Pacific Ocean 150 miles from San Diego | 1984 | 26,000 pounds | yacht Arrakis; largest on West Coast to date[3] | |
Project Pacifico | DEA and Mexican authorities | Chihuahua, Northern Mexico | 1984 | 10,000 tons (20 thousand pounds) | Series of raids in Mexico, some unharvested plants, some harvested and baled. Seizure included 45 trucks able to carry 30 tons of bales each.[2] |
Cornbread Mafia seizure | Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (investigator) | 10 Midwest states, based in Kentucky | 1989 | 182 tons (364,000 pounds) valued at $350 million | Over 70 individuals indicted operating 29 farms,[4][5][6] called by federal prosecutors the "largest domestic marijuana producing organization in the nation."[7] |
Operation Green Sweep | US Army/National Guard/Fed agencies | Emerald Triangle, California | 1990 | 1400 plants | first time active-duty troops engaged in counterdrug activities inside US borders[8] |
Operation Conquistador | DEA | Caribbean (multiple) | 2000 | 362 tonnes | DEA coordinated 26 country effort;[9] largest in this table by weight |
Operation Keymer | Local police | Cambridge UK | 2006 | 54 kg (119 lb) | |
Operation Imperial Emperor | DEA | California–Mexico | 2007 | 27,229 pounds | other drugs and $45 million cash seized[3][10] |
Federal/local | Houston | 2007 | 19,000 pounds[3] | seized drugs were being transported in school buses[11] | |
2007–2008 Norwegian cannabis raids | National Criminal Investigation Service | Norway | 2007–2008 | 500 cannabis plants on a single farm, over 40 individual raids | One of Norway's largest narcotics cases[12] |
Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan | Kahdahar, Afghanistan | 2008 | 260 tons hashish 520,000 lb† | said to be largest drug seizure in history at the time, worth $400 million[13][14] | |
US interagency? | Queens | 2009 | 50,000 pounds | BC bud, street value $150 million[3] | |
Operation Save our Sierra | State/Federal | Fresno, California | 2009 | 330,000 plants | estimated value $1 billion, largest in this table[3][15] |
RCMP | Montreal | 2010 | 8 tons (16,000 pounds) hashish | found in abandoned trailer[16] | |
Operation Deliverance | DEA | Mexico–US | 2010 | 69 tons | Bilateral[9] |
Cowabungle raid? | Federal police | Tijuana | 2010 | 105 tons | largest seizure in Mexico in years[17] |
Operation Kruz Control | Federal interagency/local | Arizona | 2012–2013 | 27,000 pounds | yearlong operation |
CBP | Calexico border crossing | 2013 | 35,000 pounds | largest seizure at US-Mexico border[18][19] | |
Local police | Goodrich, Texas | 2014 | 100,000 plants | largest seizure in Texas history at the time[20] | |
Operation Weed Eaters and Operation Thunderstorm | National Drug Law Enforcement Agency | Ondo State and elsewhere in Nigeria | January–June 2014 | 45,875 kilograms (101,137 lb)[21] | |
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency | Akure, Ondo State | January–June 2014 | 34,030 kilograms (75,020 lb) | Largest single seizure by agency in Ondo State to date, over 20% of all the previous year's seizures, valued at 364 million naira[22] | |
CBP | Otay Mesa port of entry, San Diego County, California | 2015 | 27,000 pounds | Second-largest seizure at US–Mexico border[19] | |
Federal/local | Lipscomb County, Texas | 2015 | 109,000 plants | new state record[23][24] | |
Hong Kong Police Force | Hong Kong | 2017 | 180 kg (400 lb) | largest seizure in HK in a decade[25] |
*Assumed dried leaf or flower material unless otherwise specified.
†May not be independently verified
References
- "Colombia raids net 574 tons of marijuana", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, p. 3, May 1, 1978
- Brinkley, Joel (Nov 23, 1984). "Vast, undreamed-of drug use feared". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- "America's 5 biggest pot busts", The Week, June 17, 2010
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- Bishop, Katherine (August 10, 1990). "Military Takes Part in Drug Sweep And Reaps Criticism and a Lawsuit". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- Kleiman & Hawdon 2011, p. 212.
- Richard Marosi and Tracy Wilkinson (July 28, 2011), "Suspicion in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel", The Los Angeles TimesCS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES SEIZE 19,000 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA, US Fed News Service, March 5, 2007, archived from the original on April 28, 2017 – via HighBeam (subscription required)
- Dagsavisen: Femti cannabis-gartnere fengslet Archived November 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, presentert 27. februar 2008
- "World's biggest drug seizure in Afghanistan", Daily Telegraph, June 11, 2008
- Afghans' 260-ton hashish bust could be record: Worth tops $400 million, NATO says, Associated Press, June 11, 2008 – via NBC News
- Nick Valencia (July 23, 2009), $1 billion in marijuana seized in California, CNN
- Nearly 8 tons of hashish seized in Canada, NBC News, September 15, 2010
- http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/18/mexico.drug.seizure/
- http://fox59.com/2015/03/02/feds-seize-15-tons-of-marijuana-in-second-largest-weed-bust-ever-at-a-u-s-boarder-crossing/
- Andie Adams (February 27, 2015). "Record-Breaking Bust: 15 Tons of Pot Seized at Otay Mesa Port, the seizure has an estimated street value of about $18.96 million". NBC San Diego.
- East Texas marijuana fields valued at $175 million, Associated Press, July 30, 2014 – via The Cannabist (Denver Post)
- Oluwaseun Akingboye (16 June 2019). "Marijuana: Controversies over Ondo's new 'gold mine'". The Guardian Sunday Magazine. Nigeria.
- Ben Ezeamalu (March 13, 2015). "NDLEA makes "single largest" seizure of cannabis in Ondo". Premium Times. Nigeria.
- "109K-plant marijuana bust could be largest of its kind in Texas history", Amarillo Globe-News, June 9, 2015
- "109K-plant marijuana bust could be largest of its kind in Texas history", Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, June 10, 2015
- "Largest Hong Kong cannabis haul in 10 years nets 180kg worth HK$29 million", South China Morning Post, January 5, 2017
Sources
- Kleiman, M.A.R.; Hawdon, J.E. (2011). Encyclopedia of Drug Policy. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-5063-3824-8. Retrieved 2018-04-21.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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