Glass House Brands issued a statement Monday regarding the July 10 immigration raids of its two cannabis facilities in Carpinteria and Camarillo. In the statement, the company claims that only nine of its employees were detained or arrested in the two operations, and the rest of those taken by federal agencies — including the 11 minors government officials say were found at the Camarillo location — were employed by a third-party contractor.
The Glass House Brands statement confirms that a federal search warrant was served for “evidence of possible immigration violations under Title 8 of the United States Code” on July 10, though Glass House representatives say that “very few documents were seized” during the joint operation.
Government officials said that 361 individuals were arrested in both locations. Of these, 10 were taken from the Carpinteria location, according to witnesses on the scene. Glass House Brands, however, said in the August 4 statement that “the company has been unable to verify the actual number or the identities of those detained.”