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LANSING — On Nov. 30, the Drug Enforcement Agency raided a facility in Meridian Township. Along with ground forces, the Michigan National Guard provided two Blackhawk helicopters to assist in the operation. The facility was a joint growing operation by several registered patient caregivers. The caregivers decided to rent the facility to grow medical marijuana for their patients, and remove the drug from their homes.

A deputy was injured as he fell off a cliff Tuesday, pulling another deputy with him and injuring him as well, during a marijuana grow raid in California.

The Kern County Sheriff's Office Major Violators Unit (damn, they sound important) and the Kern Narcotics Enforcement Team were trying to serve a search warrant for a cannabis grow operation in the remote area of Bald Mountain, in the Havilah, Calif., area, reports KERO 23

Missouri state auditor says that law enforcement agencies maybe under reporting what they take as asset forfeiture during criminal investigations.

BENECIA, Calif. -- The commander of the Central Contra Costa County Narcotic Enforcement Team was arrested in Benicia Wednesday morning on suspicion of distributing marijuana, methamphetamine and steroids, according to the state Department of Justice.

The law enforcement agency said followers of The Sovereign Citizens Movement have been known to carry out violent acts, including killing law enforcement officers and other public servants.

Law enforcement officers walked drug-sniffing dogs through a Pulaski apartment complex early Monday morning -- a practice occasionally used to search for evidence of illegal drug activity, the town's police chief said.

In what Roche called a coordinated multi-agency narcotics interdiction assignment, the officers walked through Meadowview's 10 three-story buildings with their dogs at about 2 a.m.

If the dogs alerted on an apartment, Roche said, officers could knock on the door or request a search warrant.

Illegal narcotics and drug paraphernalia were seized, Roche said.

For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse have made it all but impossible to develop a robust body of research on the medical uses of marijuana.

FARMINGTON -- About 1,000 marijuana plants were stolen from a Farmington law enforcement storage facility overnight Tuesday.

Farmington police officers discovered the break-in Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., according to police Chief Jack Peck.

An overhead garage door had been "pried open" and much of the marijuana, seized Tuesday in a northern Franklin County drug raid, was gone, Peck said.

Authorities in Tempe, Arizona, dismantled a drug trafficking cell associated with Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, arresting 20 people and seizing three tons of marijuana, 30 pounds of methamphetamine and $2.4 million in cash, police said. A six-month investigation by Tempe police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency also concluded with the seizure of an airplane, 10 vehicles and 14 firearms, police said Friday.