PORT ANGELES — Investigators are exploring possible links between two cannabis store armed robberies in the Port Angeles area and more than 31 other retail pot thefts across Western Washington and the Puget Sound since Nov. 1.
Brian King, Clallam County chief criminal deputy, said law enforcement has increased its patrols at marijuana outlets in Clallam County since the armed incursions at Muffy’s Pot Shop on Jan. 15 east of Port Angeles and Floyd’s Cannabis on Dec. 17 west of downtown Port Angeles, both on U.S. Highway 101. The shops are 2 miles apart.
The connections among the 33 robberies include four or more hooded, masked, handgun-armed intruders entering stores late at night, some near closing time, and demanding cash, sometimes taking product and fleeing, King said.
“We have had nothing of a similar nature here in Jefferson County,” Sheriff’s Office Detective Sgt. Brett Anglin said Monday.
He said three marijuana stores in Jefferson County were burglarized — broken into and robbed — about two or more years ago.
Members of the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Task Force, which includes Clallam and Jefferson County sheriff’s offices and Port Angeles and Sequim police departments, will meet today “to put some other ideas forward as far as an investigative plan moving forward based on that information that continues to develop,” he said.
“We have additional meetings planned.”
Along with stepped-up patrols, “we’ve…
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PORT ANGELES — Investigators are exploring possible links between two cannabis store armed robberies in the Port Angeles area and more than 31 other retail pot thefts across Western Washington and the Puget Sound since Nov. 1.
Brian King, Clallam County chief criminal deputy, said law enforcement has increased its patrols at marijuana outlets in Clallam County since the armed incursions at Muffy’s Pot Shop on Jan. 15 east of Port Angeles and Floyd’s Cannabis on Dec. 17 west of downtown Port Angeles, both on U.S. Highway 101. The shops are 2 miles apart.
The connections among the 33 robberies include four or more hooded, masked, handgun-armed intruders entering stores late at night, some near closing time, and demanding cash, sometimes taking product and fleeing, King said.
“We have had nothing of a similar nature here in Jefferson County,” Sheriff’s Office Detective Sgt. Brett Anglin said Monday.
He said three marijuana stores in Jefferson County were burglarized — broken into and robbed — about two or more years ago.
Members of the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Task Force, which includes Clallam and Jefferson County sheriff’s offices and Port Angeles and Sequim police departments, will meet today “to put some other ideas forward as far as an investigative plan moving forward based on that information that continues to develop,” he said.
“We have additional meetings planned.”
Along with stepped-up patrols, “we’ve…
