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Riverside County Authorities Crack Down on Illegal Marijuana Dispensaries

Valley Ice Cream in Hemet, pictured here, was busted as an illegal pot shop by authorities in Riverside County. This photo was tweeted by the DA's office on Feb. 1, 2019.

Search warrants have been served at 10 inland Southern California marijuana dispensaries allegedly operating without licenses, including one business posing as an ice cream store.

The Riverside County district attorney’s cannabis regulation task force moved in Thursday after several months of investigations.

The DA’s office says by late afternoon about 90 pounds of finished cannabis product and a large amount of cannabis edibles had been seized from eight of the locations.

One person was arrested for felony possession of a stolen handgun. Another was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant for driving on a suspended license.

In Hemet, authorities came across one pot shop called “Valley Ice Cream.”

“But it wasn’t ice cream being sold there, it was cannabis at an illegally operating dispensary,” the DA’s office said in a tweet.

The DA’s office says the task force is trying to ensure fair business practices and keep criminal activity out of the legal cannabis industry.

The 10 locations targeted by the raids include:

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