Sacramento-based U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner filed civil forfeiture complaints to seize land and bank accounts connected with commercial marijuana cultivation operations.
“The commercial cultivation of marijuana is a violation of federal law, and commercial marijuana cultivators who attempt to mask their activity through structuring their financial transactions in violation of anti-money laundering laws can expect to have their property seized and forfeited,” Wagner said in a statement.
The growing fields were in five parcels in rural Trinity County and a 40-acre tract in Butte County.
The U.S. Attorney’s office also is pursuing money in bank accounts in at least three different banks.