COLORADO – Police and federal agents arrested more than 40 people and seized piles of pot plants and growing equipment Thursday during raids of about 30 Colorado properties.
Four homes were raided in the Colorado Springs, Peyton, and Monument areas. The case involves people who moved to Colorado from Texas specifically to grow marijuana that would be illegally exported.
Authorities have been pursuing drug traffickers who illegally grow marijuana in Colorado to ship to other states, where it can sell for more than double what it could in a legal pot shop.
