Crime & Safety

Men Charged With Illegal Sales at Lake Forest Pot Shop Headed to Arraignment

Two men arrested in connection with a Lake Forest marijuana dispensary appeared in court this week.

Two men charged with illegally selling marijuana at a now-shuttered Lake Forest dispensary waived their right to a preliminary hearing this week in a Newport Beach courtroom.

Mark Gregory Moen and Robert Adams Moody, the respective alleged owner-operator and manager of 215 Agenda, are facing a host of charges related to the pot shop, which once operated among a host of such shops on the second level of a Raymond Court strip mall.

According to court records, police stopped Moen on Sept. 30, 2009, in Huntington Beach in 2009 for a traffic violation and found more than $145,000 cash, allegedly from the sale of marijuana at the Lake Forest dispensary.

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He is charged with illegally operating the shop and with laundering its profits through banks.

Moody is charged with illegally selling marijuana at 215 Agenda. Another man who was managing the Lake Forest shop, co-defendent Marco Enrique Verduzco, pleaded guilty in June and was sentenced to two years of informal probation.

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All three men are accused of illegally selling marijuana by providing to anyone with a physician’s recommendation, without any relationship to the purchaser and without requiring or requesting them to participate in collectively or cooperatively cultivating marijuana.

Moen and Moody's decision to waive their right to a preliminary hearing moves the court process along to the arraignment, scheduled for Jan. 30 in Santa Ana.


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