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Posted on 04/28/2026 8:02:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An enterprising New Jersey man raked in up to $20,000 a day running illegal marijuana vending machines — with at least 80 locations across the state, prosecutors said.
Ben Gross, a 40-year-old Toms River resident, was arrested Friday after investigators identified him as the owner of the Barbwire vending machine company.
Cops in Ocean and Monmouth counties spent more than two years tracing the operation, officials said. Prosecutors said Gross made between $17,000 and $20,000 per day from the machines.
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Translation: “If you’re going to poison people, you’d better be licensed by the state to do it. Otherwise, the corrupt politicians might not get their cut of the loot.”
Why does it take two years to figure this out? 2 days maybe. 2 weeks, sure.
Didn’t it ever get restocked? A stake out would have found that person. Heck, impounding them would have, too.
I think the guy should get a prize for business ingenuity. And how is he the only one caught? There has to be hundreds of these kinds of operations going.
Why not run them for a year and abandon them?
Two years?
They had to test the evidence thoroughly?...............
It probably would have been cheaper to hire a private detective and tell him to solve the case.
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They had to check all the payment methods were good, the product weight was correct as advertised and consumer satisfaction of the product delivered to be sure consumers were not being ripped off.
No stems, no seeds that you don’t need!
Acapulco Gold is badass weed!..........................
I thot pot was legal in Jersey. So they didn’t like him selling a legal product?
The "clear message" sent by the two-year long investigation is to bank your illegal $20,000 per day for a year or so--then cash out and retire to a posh little villa in your choice of waterfronts.
He was not making up to 20,000$ a day because he was selling a low quality product. He was technically breaking the law but my bet is they went after him because he was not giving them sufficient kick backs to make them happy.
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