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Money seized from Pin Hsien Hsu, who operated about 30 unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. California Attorney General Bonta today announced the arrest of, and felony charges filed against an unlicensed retailer of cannabis for $7.1 million in tax evasion. From April 2019 through November 2022, the suspect operated an extensive number of unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in Los Angeles, Orange, and San Bernardino Counties. During that period, the suspect failed to file sales tax returns and to report approximately $80 million in sales.

SoCal man sold $80 million in cannabis products and didn’t report it, state prosecutors say

A man who operated unlicensed marijuana dispensaries across Southern California is facing dozens of felony charges for evading $7.1 million in taxes, according to state prosecutors.

FBI personnel enter a building in Portsmouth, Va., Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/John Clark)

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FILE - A marijuana plant is seen at a medical marijuana dispensary in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., March 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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Thailand's new Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul talks to media members after receiving a royal letter of endorsement for the post at Bhumjai Thai party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Arnun Chonmahatrakool)

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Lakewood, CA - June 20: Samantha Reyes, 5, center, plays with fellow children at a home day care run by Zoila Carolina Toma, left, in Lakewood Friday, June 20, 2025. She'd usually have 14 children in her care, but the number has dropped down to 6, and the phones are silent. Parents are keeping their children at home. And even though all of her current students are citizens, she's asked the parents to provide birth certificates for all of them. She's keeping them safe in a folder, where she can access them easily if they're stopped by ICE agents on the way to the pool or park. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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CAMARILLO, CA - JULY 11: Glass House Farms in Camarillo, CA was the site of an immigration raid on Thursday. Photographed on Friday, July 11, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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From top left to bottom right are: Yi Luo, Guangqi Fu, Xin Chen, Quizhuo Liang and Bordin Sikarin. LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced that six people were charged today as part of a multi-agency investigation dubbed "Operation Sugar Diamond" that targeted an illegal cannabis extraction business where four people were killed in a fiery explosion at a warehouse in Irwindale in 2023 and another man died at a South El Monte facility last year.

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