Pot shops up and down the I-5 corridor, from Bellingham to Vancouver, are increasingly becoming the target of armed robberies.
And some of those robberies have even left employees with gunshot wounds.
Tom Bout, owner of the Cannabis Professionals Network and general manager at Emerald Haze in Renton, has been tracking recent robberies in a spreadsheet with others in the industry.
“Since November, there have been 33 armed robberies — 33,” he said.
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That includes Bout’s own workplace, as well as dozens of other stores in Western Washington.
“[Emerald Haze was] robbed, the night we were robbed, Seattle Cannabis
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