3/6/2024
Linn County, OR. – During the week of February 26th through March 1st, the Linn Interagency Narcotics Enforcement team (LINE) served a series of three, unrelated search warrants. All three warrants were related to large scale, unlicensed, unlawful marijuana grows. Two of the grows were on commercial properties and the third was on a private residential property.
Three arrests were made, with more potential arrests pending. In total over ten thousand marijuana plants in all stages of life were either seized or destroyed.
On February 15th, related to one of the above-mentioned search warrants, an unreported burglary occurred in Linn County where over 100 pounds of marijuana was stolen. That burglary went unreported; however, a Linn County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant located and stopped a stolen U-Haul that was later learned to have been used in the burglary and it still contained some of the stolen marijuana. Deputies later recovered more stolen marijuana in the area. Three arrests were made in this case.
The Linn Interagency Narcotics Enforcement team (LINE) is a multi-jurisdictional narcotics task force that identifies, disrupts, and dismantles local, multi-state, and international drug trafficking organizations using an intelligence-driven, multi-agency prosecutor-supported approach. LINE is supported by the Oregon-Idaho High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) which is composed of members from the Albany Police Department, Linn County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon State Police, Sweet Home Police Department, Lebanon Police Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Oregon National Guard Counter Drug Program.
The Oregon-Idaho HIDTA program is an Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) sponsored counterdrug grant program that coordinates with and provides funding resources to multi-agency drug enforcement initiatives, including LINE.
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