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U.S. agrees to return $1.1 million to company busted for hauling legal weed money in Kansas

Last year, a sheriff’s deputy in Dickinson County, Kansas, stopped one of Empyreal Logistics' vehicles on Interstate 70 and seized nearly $166,000 in cash it was transporting from legal medical marijuana dispensaries in Kansas City, Missouri, to a credit union in Colorado.

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Last year, a sheriff’s deputy in Dickinson County, Kansas, stopped one of Empyreal Logistics’ vehicles on Interstate 70 and seized nearly $166,000 in cash it was transporting from legal medical marijuana dispensaries in Kansas City, Missouri, to a credit union in Colorado.

Highlights

  • Denver-based Empyreal Logistics was transporting cash from state-licensed cannabis businesses in California.
  • A sheriff’s deputy in Kansas seized nearly $166,000 in cash last year.
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  • Attorney’s Office in Kansas subsequently filed a civil forfeiture action against the armored car company.
  • In return, the company has agreed to drop the federal lawsuit it filed in California against the government.
  • The suit alleged the seizures in California and Kansas were illegal.