{"id":33657,"date":"2024-07-18T12:54:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=33657"},"modified":"2024-07-18T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:54:31","slug":"mayor-adams-sheriff-miranda-nypd-commissioner-caban-announce-results-of-major-cannabis-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/33657","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams, Sheriff Miranda, NYPD Commissioner Caban announce results of major cannabis bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams, New York city Sheriff Anthony Miranda, and New York city Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Edward Caban announced the results of enforcement actions taken last night against two illegal cannabis operators warehousing illegal cannabis and other products in the Throgs Neck area of the Bronx.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Led by the Sheriff\u2019s Joint Compliance Taskforce, the operation \u2014 part of \u201cOperation Padlock to Protect\u201d \u2014 shut down including a warehouse storing millions of dollars\u2019 worth of illegal cannabis and psilocybin products, and a smoke shop that was hiding cannabis products in their air vents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been clear: illegal smoke shops will no longer be able to operate with impunity,\u201d said Mayor Adams.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Operation Padlock to Protect\u2019 has already shut down and padlocked over 630 illegal smoke shops, allowed us to seize over $20 million in illegal products, and impose more than $51 million in fines and penalties on those who continue to break the law. Our administration has achieved remarkable results over the last three months, and last night\u2019s raid on two major distributors and operators shows we will not stop until every illegal shop is held accountable. For too long, these shops have contributed to a feeling that anything goes in our city, but we are going to continue to shut down illegal shops and will ensure that the future of legal cannabis burns bright in New York City. I want to thank Sheriff Miranda and his team, as well as Commissioner Caban and the NYPD, for leading this operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlicensed cannabis shops aren\u2019t just breaking the law \u2013\u2013 they’re threatening our neighborhoods,\u201d said Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks III.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese shops undermine the legal market, evade taxes, attract robberies and shootings, and, most notably, threaten public safety by distributing products that haven’t been tested or regulated. Our job is to protect the people of New York City, and we\u2019re doing that every day by shutting these illegal operators down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to keep our communities safe from these unregulated and dangerous products,\u201d said Sheriff Miranda.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe information we obtain from the community via 3-1-1 complaints and from elected officials are critical to the success of \u2018Operation Padlock to Protect.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe safe sale and distribution of legal cannabis in New York City requires a licensed, regulated, and standardized industry,\u201d said NYPD Commissioner Caban.<\/p>\n

\u201cIllegal cannabis operators running afoul of the law are posing a public safety and health risk to our communities and are destabilizing the emerging legal industry. The NYPD and our task force partners will continue to use every resource available to enforce existing cannabis regulations and, most importantly, to protect New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams, New York city Sheriff Anthony Miranda, and New York city Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Edward Caban announced the results of enforcement actions taken last night against two illegal cannabis operators warehousing illegal cannabis and other products in the Throgs Neck area of the Bronx. Led by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33661,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33657\/revisions\/33661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}