Illegal marijuana products worth millions of dollars found in New York warehouse. Here's the last one.

NEW YORK — Investigators say what started as a burglary in Brooklyn Saturday morning turned into the discovery of a huge amount of illegal drugs.

Around 5:30 a.m., law enforcement responded to an unmarked warehouse located at 63 Adelphi St. in Fort Greene, in a residential neighborhood just off the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Deputies from the New York City Sheriff's Office were later seen confiscating illegal marijuana products that the mayor's office said were destined for bodegas and illegal cannabis stores. that popped up all over the five boroughs.

The New York Police Department, which partners with the Sheriff's Office to prosecute illegal marijuana operations, is now trying to track down the warehouse's owner.

Sheriff's Office deputies said recent legislation passed at the state level made it easier to close these types of places.

What law enforcement found

Unlike products from licensed and legal dispensariesNothing found in the warehouse is regulated, investigators said.

“There are THC vapes. There are THC gummies, THC flowers, pre-rolls. There are several million dollars worth of products packaged for distribution throughout New York City,” he said. said Maureen Kokeas of the sheriff's office.

“Some of it could be from legal states, illegally, illegally diverted from states that are allowed to grow product. We know some of it comes from overseas and is completely illegal product and we don't even know what it is contains,” Kokeas said. » added when asked where the product came from.

Kokeas was asked his first reaction to seeing the loot.

“I think the sheriff's office, the NYPD and our task force members will be very happy. It's not going to take place in the streets,” she said.

Were the products intended for children?

CBS New York's Derick Waller was allowed in to take video of all the different products being stored. Some brightly colored items with fun names were visible, almost as if they were aimed at children. The packaging was bright and colorful, with names like “Gorilla Glue” and “Thin Mints.” A box of vape pens showed a cartoon grandmother lighting up, and a container of infused joints was topped with fake neon paste.

“It looks like candy. It looks like slime, yeah, things that my kids play with,” said neighbor and parent Khadine Barakat.

“It makes me very, very angry and I'm very curious about what's going to happen, how they're going to end this to protect the children of Brooklyn,” said parent Gigi Garcia Russo.

What is clear is that many people who live in the area had no idea what was going on in the warehouse. One neighbor said she thought the building had been abandoned for years, while another said she thought a restaurant was moving in.