Marijuana clinic owner is arrested

The owner of six Los Angeles-area medical-marijuana dispensaries was arrested by federal agents Tuesday after an investigation sparked by a traffic accident in which a motorist allegedly high on the dispensaries’ products plowed into a parked sport-utility vehicle, killing the driver and paralyzing a California Highway Patrol officer.After the Dec. 19, 2007, accident, investigators found “a large amount of marijuana and marijuana edibles” in the pickup driven by the suspect, Jeremy White, 20, according to federal authorities.

Investigators traced the marijuana to the Holistic Caregivers facility in Compton, one of six dispensaries owned and operated by Virgil Grant, 41.

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