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A video of a 2015 raid by Santa Ana police on the Sky High Holistic dispensary showed officers entering with guns drawn, and then later appearing to joke around and eat marijuana edibles while also destroying a surveillance camera system.
The officers shown in the now-infamous pot shop raid video stole cookies and protein bars from the Sky High Holistic dispensary but not ones laced with marijuana, according to the DA’s office.
Santa Ana police have issued an order to close a medical marijuana shop where hidden cameras recorded officers allegedly eating pot edibles and mocking an amputee.
Superior Court Judge Ronald Bauer has tentatively ruled that a video of officers misbehaving during a pot shop raid can’t be used as evidence in a Santa Ana Police Department internal investigation, according to court documents.
The ruling by Superior Court Judge David R. Chafee allows the city to issue operating permits for 20 medical marijuana dispensaries.
A federal lawsuit claims that since the passage last fall of Measure BB, which instituted a new regulatory regime over medical marijuana dispensaries in the city, Pulido and other officials with financial ties to certain shops have directed police to shut down their competitors
Reporter Adam Elmahrek talks with attorney Matthew Pappas about controversial new video of Santa Ana Police raiding his client’s marijuana dispensary.