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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Police, federal agents seize $841,600 worth of marijuana


Advertiser Staff

Maui police and federal agents confiscated more than 130 pounds of high-quality processed marijuana and arrested a 37-year-old Kula woman this month in what police yesterday called the largest processed marijuana seizure and investigation in Maui County history, the Maui News reported.

Acting on a tip that several suspicious pieces of freight were being sent from California to Maui through a private freight company, police obtained a warrant on Aug. 12 to search several boxes that had arrived on Maui from a freight company, according to a Maui Police Department news release. Inside the boxes, police found approximately 130 pounds of processed marijuana.

A day later, officers executed a search warrant on a private storage facility in Kahului, and that resulted in the confiscation of about 1.5 pounds of processed marijuana and drug paraphernalia, police said.

The street value of the marijuana is $400 an ounce, giving the seized marijuana a street value of about $841,600, police said.