21 indicted in Colorado in connection with international black market...
Federal and local law enforcement on Thursday announced the takedown of a black market marijuana and money laundering scheme in Colorado — an operation comprising 21 individuals growing millions of...
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Black market marijuana grows are popping up faster than law enforcement can...
As he awaited sentencing in 2010, Fayin Deng sounded a contemplative, philosophic note. “I have learned now that once you become obsessed with money, no matter how great your original need was,” Deng...
View ArticleCastle Rock man who shot, killed partner in black-market marijuana scheme...
Dominique Wogan, a Castle Rock man who shot and killed his partner in a black-market marijuana scheme, was sentenced to 36 years in prison, according to an 18th Judicial District news release issued...
View ArticleMarijuana arrests are way down — but Black Coloradans are still twice as...
Seven years after the first recreational pot shops opened for business in Colorado, youth aren’t smoking more weed, older adults are blazing more and marijuana-related arrests are way down — but Black...
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Oklahoma is the new “Wild West of weed”— and Colorado marijuana entrepreneurs...
RJ Sangosti, The Denver PostCrews head back to work after a lunch break in the fields at Tribe Collective in Okemah, Oklahoma, on July 27, 2021. OKEMAH, Okla. — Chip Baker surveyed a vast field on the...
View ArticleColorado couple at center of state’s largest-ever black market marijuana ring...
A Colorado couple at the center of the state’s largest-ever black market marijuana ring has reached a plea agreement with federal authorities, court records show. Fayin Deng and Kelly Chuong were set...
View ArticleOpinion: Here’s a plan for Hancock’s last year in office — do no more harm
Mayor Michael Hancock was all about the future as in “our children’s future….save our future….a future full of possibilities….our bright future” in his final State of the City address. If Denver’s...
View ArticleBurglaries at over 40 Denver-area marijuana dispensaries lead to charges for...
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. The...
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“Marijuana recession” threatens Denver’s fledgling cannabis delivery businesses
The day before Thanksgiving, Michael Diaz-Rivera was delivering goods to customers in the snow and cold, more focused on “Green Wednesday” than Black Friday. Diaz-Rivera, who contracts with Denver...
View ArticleColorado Springs voters will vote on recreational marijuana — again — as...
Colorado Springs voters will once again decide this spring whether recreational marijuana sales should be permitted in the state’s second-largest city — less than five months after they voted in favor...
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