{"id":54554,"date":"2025-07-10T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54554\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:30:13","slug":"illegal-marijuana-operation-busted-in-east-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54554\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal marijuana operation busted in east Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2013 A massive illegal marijuana operation was uncovered in east Phoenix on Wednesday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Maricopa County Sheriff\u2019s Office served a search warrant on the indoor enterprise near 40th Street and McDowell Road and found what Sheriff Jerry Sheridan called one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MCSOaz\/posts\/pfbid0EzhRt9VkrV6rVfRxifmebedhd1KyAHDv2FXWbJ5FsYaD2QsQSjuJUajWNks9FBt9l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largest illegal grow operations<\/a> he\u2019d seen in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The bust was made after MCSO\u2019s Special Investigations Division intercepted tips and packages of suspected illegal shipments.<\/p>\n<p>What was found at site of illegal marijuana operation?<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix operation was thought to be supplying a nationwide marijuana distribution network.<\/p>\n<p>MCSO said it expected to seize hundreds of marijuana plants and a large amount of processed product worth millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kstonezone\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @kstonezone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/illegal-marijuana-operation-mcso\/5726928\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2013 A massive illegal marijuana operation was uncovered in east Phoenix on Wednesday morning, authorities said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[7155,5229,5643,1587,316,1589,7154,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-54554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-92-3-ktar","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-and-arizona-breaking-news-and-news-headlines-home","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114829893480645227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}