EVERETT — More than 1,500 marijuana plants, 60 pounds of pot and a kilo of cocaine were seized Tuesday morning as part of an inter-agency operation to dismantle a drug ring.
Following an almost three-year investigation, drug enforcement agents arrested 10 people of Souhteast Asian origin throughout Snohomish and King counties, said Lt. Mark St.Clair, a spokesman for the Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force. As many as 100 federal agents and police officers from different agencies raided seven homes and two storage lockers.
Warrants were served in Everett, Lynnwood, Renton and Newcastle. Agents seized more than $1 million worth of drugs.
“More than the medicinal amount,” St.Clair said.
The suspects, eight men and two women, are between 25 and 53 years old, St.Clair said. The task force first got a tip about the drug organization in 2007, after a young couple tending a marijuana grow house in Everett was killed in a robbery attempt. It’s unclear if the two cases are related, St.Clair said.
“It’s a drug trafficking organization involved in manufacturing and distribution of marijuana and distribution of cocaine,” St.Clair said. “These people are very experienced at growing.”
Katya Yefimova: 425-339-3452, kyefimova@heraldnet.com
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