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Feb 1, 2008 10:39 am US/Pacific

Cops Search For Robbers Of Marijuana Dispensary

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Click to enlarge 1 of 1: The men entered the dispensary and pretended to be patients seeking medical marijuana, Esquivel said. No descriptions were released of the suspects.
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Police sought two men Friday who robbed a Studio City medical marijuana dispensary at gunpoint and made off with about $4,500 in cash and an unknown amount of pot.

The crime occurred about 1:30 p.m. Thusrday at Wellness Caregivers on
Ventura Boulevard, said Detective Joe Esquivel of the North Hollywood Station. Esquivel declined to release the exact address.

The men entered the dispensary and pretended to be patients seeking
medical marijuana, Esquivel said. No descriptions were released of the suspects.

"When the manager asked to see a patient card, one suspect pulled a handgun and ordered him to the ground," Esquivel said. The other man pulled out a shotgun and the suspects held the manager and two employees at gunpoint.

The two employees -- a man and a woman -- were bound with duct tape, and the manager was forced to hand over money from the cash drawer and safe, along with an unknown amount of marijuana, Esquivel said. No one was hurt.

Detectives planned to review security video at the crime scene. It was unclear if the robbery was related to other similar cases, Esquivel said.