Crate after crate of confiscated, illegal cannabis and other products filled the Bronx warehouse where Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams and law enforcement personnel took a victory lap Wednesday over the success of “Operation Padlock to Protect.”
The program combating the proliferation of illegal cannabis shops citywide has shut down more than 750 illegal smoke shops across the five boroughs. The warehouse in the Bronx’s Wakefield neighborhood was lined with shelves holding up big crates of assorted, seized products – plastic bags of dried marijuana buds of an unknown origin, gummy candies in bags resembling popular mainstream snacks, and even cannabis contained inside what appeared to be crayon boxes.
