9 indicted in cannabis burglaries that led to Oakland officer’s death

A federal grand jury in Oakland indicted nine people on a slew of drug and conspiracy charges related to a series of burglaries at a marijuana grow facility in 2023 that led to the death of an undercover police officer, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.

- By ANDREW J. CAMPA

TUAN LE and other officers were chasing a vehicle in December 2023 when he was shot and killed.

(Oakland Police Department)

Federal prosecutors allege that over the course of about four hours on Dec. 29, 2023, the group burglarized a waterfront grow facility on Embarcadero in Oakland, leaving with at least 100 marijuana plants. Allen Brown, Sebron Russell and Marquise Cooper allegedly organized the armed burglaries, recruiting Janiero Booth, Jowaun Jones, Shawn McGee and Salvador Munguia to help them throughout the morning, according to the indictment.

Brown, Russell, Cooper, Booth, Jones, McGee and Munguia are charged with conspiring to distribute, possession with intent to distribute, and attempting to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 marijuana plants, the indictment states.