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Jul.09, 2010, 5:15 p.m., Source: Ventura County Star

The discovery of 1,000 marijuana plants inside a Lockwood Valley house led detectives to a San Fernando Valley dispensary. Investigators later determined the dispensary sold millions of dollars worth of pot illegally and tried to hide the profits by moving the money between fake businesses, authorities say.

Three co-owners of the dispensary were arrested recently on suspicion of money laundering, and details of the allegations emerged this week in a search warrant affidavit and interviews with officials.

Steven Kall, 55, and Anne Adams, 47, both of Sherman Oaks, and Jimmy Silva, 26, of Northridge are suspected of laundering $2.18 million from 2007 to 2009, according to the affidavit.

Arrested July 3 in Las Vegas, Kall and Adams remained in custody Friday in lieu of $750,000 and $250,000 bail, respectively. Silva, arrested June 11 in Northridge, was released on $250,000 bail after pleading not guilty to all charges.

The arrests stemmed from a year-long investigation by the Ventura County Combined Agency Task Force. The case began in May 2009 with a tip about marijuana cultivation at a home in Lockwood Valley, said Sgt. Mike Horne of the Ventura County sheriff’s Narcotics Unit.

When authorities served a search warrant at the house, which was owned by Kall, they found about 1,000 pot plants, Horne said. “This was a commercial operation,” Horne said.

Kall told authorities the pot was being grown for the Golden State Collective medical marijuana dispensary in Granada Hills, according to a sworn statement filed in support of a search warrant by Ventura County district attorney Investigator Jeff Barry.

During the June 2009 interview, Kall told investigators: “I’m not saying that two-thirds of the people who walk in the (dispensary) door aren’t using it recreationally,” Barry wrote.

Kall was arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale following the interview.

Later that month, Los Angeles police detectives investigating complaints of narcotics activity arrested Kall and contacted the Ventura County sheriff’s detective investigating the dispensary owner, authorities said.

Authorities later searched the dispensary; several residences, including one shared by Kall and Adams; and bank accounts associated with the suspects.

Records found during a search of Kall and Adams’ Sherman Oaks apartment led authorities to estimate the collective sold more than $3 million worth of marijuana annually, with the profits laundered, according to Barry’s 46-page statement.

Investigators said they found records of large amounts of money deposited in bank accounts held in the names of four corporations. The money was “moved from one account to the other in an attempt to conceal its true source,” Barry wrote in his affidavit.

Financial analyses showed a lot of money was missing, and investigators asked for permission to search for “evidence of buried or hidden” cash, Barry wrote.

“There are millions of dollars in drug profits which are missing,” Barry wrote.

In an interview, a former employee of the collective told investigators he suspected Kall and Adams were burying cash, according to the affidavit. The employee also told investigators Kall and Adams purchased pot from some people who were not members of the collective and members of a San Fernando Valley gang, the document states.

Asked by investigators about the dispensary sign that read “Center for the Sick and Dying, Prop 215 Patients Welcome,” the former employee “laughed and said he thought that 99.9 percent of the people buying marijuana were recreational users,” according to the document.

“Nowhere does California law authorize cultivating, selling or providing marijuana — medicinal or non-medicinal — for profit,” the document states, citing guidelines from the state attorney general on Prop. 215.

Authorities also allege the suspects used the money to purchase goods and vehicles, including a yacht.

Kall was indicted last month on 109 counts of felony money laundering and one count of allowing a place for preparing or storing marijuana. Adams was indicted on 13 counts of felony money laundering, and Silva is facing nine felony counts of money laundering, prosecutors said.

While they await arraignment in the money-laundering case, Kall and Adams are also facing sentences for felony drug-related charges to which they pleaded guilty in Los Angeles, authorities said.