Overview
- Atlanta police executed Operation No Smoke at a 69,000-square-foot warehouse on Saturday, shutting down a planned marijuana pop-up before it began.
- Officers arrested 40 people including the organizer, with 37 booked into jail and three issued copy-of-charges.
- Investigators reported seizing 1,220 pounds of raw marijuana, 391 pounds of THC edibles, 29 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms, 15 guns, nine vehicles, and more than $32,000.
- Inside, police said they found 24 vendor stalls and a crowd that had drawn over 1,400 registrations, and many people tried to flee across nearby roofs with two treated for injuries.
- Detectives are pursuing cross-state leads on vendors from 11 states as commanders frame the crackdown as a way to cut shootings tied to drug deals and to address candy-like edibles that can fool kids.