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INCIDENT DATE: January 1st – December 31st, 2021
REPORTING DEPUTY: Josephine Marijuana Enforcement Team
DETAILS:
From January 1st – December 31st, 2021, the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office has executed search warrants on 52 alleged illegal marijuana cultivation operations within Josephine County. Many of these operations have been conducted in partnership with other law enforcement agencies. Those agencies include the Josephine Marijuana Enforcement Team (JMET), Rogue Area Drug Enforcement Team (OSP, GPDPS, Parole and Probation), Oregon State Police, Illegal Marijuana Enforcement Team (IMET, Jackson County SO, Medford PD), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Josephine County Code Enforcement, Oregon State Health Administration, the Josephine County Water Master, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Environmental Quality, Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
In 2021 the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office seized:
Total Plants: 680,176
Firearms: 157
Cash: $1,282,710.02
Equipment: Multiple water pumps, generators, and heavy machinery
Due to the ongoing nature of the investigations, names of suspects, locations, dates, and times of the operations are not being released. As our citizens have seen this year, cultivation sites in the marijuana industry are more robust and have grown. Your Sheriff’s Office is committed to combatting the illegal grows within Josephine County.