The city’s cannabis cops swooped in and seized the truck filled with marijuana and other cannabis products.
“It’s not an ice cream truck,” said Community Board 10 district manager Josephine Beckmann.
“It’s quite brazen. They had not received a cannabis license and they were already closed by the sheriff’s office and the NYPD,” she said.
Mayor Eric Adams’ cannabis enforcers said they’re not going to be treated like suckers by illegal pot peddlers.
“We’re closing the brick and mortar stores, so they’re now using mobile trucks,” said city Sheriff Anthony Miranda, who oversees cannabis enforcement with the help the NYPD.
“They had the same artwork from the store painted on the truck,” he said — adding the the sheriff’s office seized the vehicle.
Cops responded to a burglary in progress at 65 Adelphi Street around 5:30 a.m. when they found three men inside and a “large quantity of marijuana and THC products,” police said.
The products were unregulated cannabis sent from overseas to be distributed to illegal pot shops throughout the Big Apple, a source told The Post.
Among the pre-packaged contraband were marijuana and THC gummies.
Cops hope that cutting off the illegal pot suppliers will help choke off the unlicensed market.
The Adams administration launched “Operation Padlock” three weeks ago, utilizing a tougher state law recently approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the legislature, to speed up the crackdown of unlicensed pot shops.
In other matters, OCM executive director Chris Alexander announced he’s stepping down after Hochul’s team issued a damning report on the office, called for an overhaul and admitted the rollout of the legal cannabis market was a “disaster.”
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