A band of thieves reportedly cut through steel walls of a Kelso cannabis producer and stole 150 pounds of dried pot waiting to be transported to a processing plant. Kelso police confirmed officers are investigating the heist of roughly $250,000 worth of cannabis.
The facility, Cascade Mountain, is equipped with several surveillance cameras that show the thieves walking around with headlamps and cutting through various walls before breaking into the drying room and scooping the plants into bags.
“I’m still in a little bit of a state of shock,” said manager Mark Michaelson on Tuesday as he showed FOX 12 the nearly empty room. “This room – clear to the ceiling – was completely full,” Michaelson said.
He added, “They literally cut a hole through the heavy steel siding, sheetrock and all the insulation – cut a hole in and literally crawled like rats through that hole.”
Michaelson said the cameras captured five men and a woman orchestrating the theft early Sunday morning. The facility is located off Parrott Way.
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