The city’s chief sheriff Anthony Miranda had said earlier he hopes to conduct to 75 to 100 raids a day once the task force that includes the sheriff, the NYPD and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection is fully up and running. In the first four days, he said there were 150 investigations, and 75 were padlocked.

15 May 2024 | 05:17

In the first four days of a citywide crackdown, 75 retail outlets selling illegal cannabis products were padlocked.

“We visited 150 locations,” said Sheriff Anthony Miranda. “Fifty percent of those locations were sealed and issued cease and desist orders.”

Miranda earlier told Straus News that when the...