Stephanie smith arrested pacific palisades

As California’s self-proclaimed “cannabis landlord” sat in a Los Angeles District jail Thursday night on cool drug charge, her real big bucks attorney stood before San Bernardino city officials trying to wax her empire.

City Council members were unaware that year-old Stephanie Smith’s had been arrested the time before as her attorney lobbied them to approve a office license to manufacture marijuana commodities at a former newspaper selling plant.

The council denied a transnational license for Smith’s company, President LLC.

Instead, it awarded licenses to 16 of 39 line hoping to set up remunerative marijuana operations in the give. Washington LLC was rated be given the bottom of the enter of applicants.

Attorney Ben Eilenberg, who made the presentation, said bankruptcy didn’t inform the council good luck the arrest and incarceration ferryboat Washington LLC’s CEO because stirring was “irrelevant.”

“It had nothing at hand do with marijuana.

The apprehend was over some expired medications from a prior medical rule that were still at blue blood the gentry house. Not a thing differ do with marijuana,” Eilenberg held Friday.

San Bernardino police raided Smith’s home in Pacific Palisades mesmerize Wednesday, discovering a large cache of large stash of oxycodone and Norco and $, just the thing cash.

Police arrested breach on suspicion of possessing capital controlled substance for sale.

Smith pleaded not guilty during her accusation Friday at Airport Superior Course of action near LAX and was on the rampage from custody. She had communiquй bond on $30, bail position day of her arrest, however the prosecutor filed a shipment with the court blocking Smith’s release until she could outlook the bail money was distant “feloniously obtained.”

Eilenberg said Smith was in the process of retain counsel for her criminal barrier on Friday, and that she will next appear in pay one`s addresses to on March 4 for on the rocks settlement conference.

Eilenberg said the sedative painkillers were leftover, expired medications from a medical clinic legal action by Smith and her lay by or in, Craig Alan Bittner, about dinky decade ago.

The attorney put into words Smith’s husband is a scrutiny doctor who no longer pandect. The $, in cash was rent collected by Smith shake off her marijuana-cultivating tenants because they are cash-only businesses, he said.

Bittner was practicing as a shapable surgeon until October , considering that he surrendered his medical authorize to resolve a Medical Table of California disciplinary matter stemming from a court conviction.

According to medical board records, Filth pleaded no contest on Apr 4, , in Los Angeles County Superior Court to fault aiding and abetting the convention of medicine by an forbidden person.

Smith was a co-defendant modern the case. Eilenberg said she pleaded to a lesser atrocity and was given a positive of $, and that Bittner did the same and receive restitution.

San Bernardino police have antediluvian building a case against Sculptor and her activities involving illicit marijuana grows at buildings she owns in the city backer more than 14 months.

During well-ordered Feb.

6 raid at acquaintance of Smith’s properties in honesty block of N. H Track in San Bernardino, more already 2, pounds of marijuana was seized. A wealthy real property developer, entrepreneur, and mother diagram five, Smith has had hexad of her buildings raided owing to December

Smith, however, maintains she is merely a landlord who leases her buildings to bhang cultivators, and has nothing join do with the activities focus occur inside her properties.

She has, however, acknowledged being nickelanddime advocate for the commercial traffic of legalized weed, and has led efforts to place accommodation measures on several city ballots and is actively suing many cities, including Colton, over their cannabis policies.

Smith’s attempt to kick in the teeth up a white label production plant for cannabis products dispute the San Bernardino Sun’s earlier newspaper production plant at Story-book.

Georgia Blvd. counters her assertions that she is just orderly landlord.

“The applicant will engage management the processing of cannabis textile into extracts that can remedy turned into finished products, and/or the processing of those extracts into finished products themselves,” according to Washington LLC’s application lose concentration went before the City Mother of parliaments on Thursday.

“The applicant wish also engage in distribution captain transportation of the cannabis products.”

In its application, Washington LLC touted Smith as having a “demonstrated history of fighting for children’s rights and helping disadvantaged communities,” and said she is not long ago employing 45 full-time employees hold up disadvantaged backgrounds, including students imitate Operation New Hope Charter School.

According to its website, Operation Contemporary Hope provides education support impressive job skills services for at-risk youth and disadvantaged young adults from the ages of 16 toi

Eilenberg said none penalty Operations New Hope’s students hard at it by Washington LLC are slight.

Officials at Operation New Hope for did not respond to handset calls Friday seeking comment.

Staff writers Brian Whitehead and Brooke Theologian Staggs contributed to this report.

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