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Actor Tommy Chong Claims Link To FBI Raids
5/8/08/WKRC.com/ Cinncinati, Ohio

FBI agents brought a truck to haul files from a Newport building Wednesday. Actor and comic Tommy Chong says he is linked to FBI raids Wednesday in Newport and Clermont County's Union Township.
Chong tells Local 12 federal agents were after thousands of DVD copies of a documentary he recently made.

Tommy Chong, 30 years ago, appeared in the movie that made him famous, "Up In Smoke."

But today, Tommy Chong is 69-years-old and selling a different movie, called "The United States of America Vs. Tommy Chong."

The documentary details Chong's 2003 federal prosecution and guilty plea for distributing drug paraphernalia. He was selling pot pipes online. Chong served nine months in prison.

Wednesday night, Chong told Local 12 he's the focus of an FBI raid of two, local offices.

"They apparently confiscated 10,000 copies of the movie, "a/k/a Tommy Chong," said Chong.

Only Local 12 cameras were on Mt. Carmel Tobasco Road Wednesday evening, watching federal agents raid the offices of 513 Ventures Agents also took evidence from the Spectrum Labs offices in Newport.

The companies market "detoxification products," meant to help someone pass a drug test.

But Chong says agents seized 10,000 DVDs of his documentary. Federal prosecutors may be targeting Chong for trying to profit off his prosecution.

"I'm not profiting off the story of my first amendment violation at all," said Chong.

The FBI isn't confirming any of this. In fact, agents simply aren't saying a thing about why they conducted the raids or what they were after.

Local 12 contacted one of the local people connected to Spectrum Labs and its affiliates, a Delhi man named Chris Swain. Mr. Swain said he would not have any comment.

(It's a damn shame but Tommy might as well give it up. He's on the governments radar for his marijuana use and promotion of his products. They took a lot more than DVD's though. They also took all his written records, including the labs mailing lists for all their customers.

The labs listed as belonging to Tommy or that he has a connection to have recently been put to the test as far as their products are concerned. A local news station did testing with the items marketed as a "detox" for your urine screen. All products tested failed! This could very well be a case of fraud.........D )

Actor Tommy Chong Claims Link To FBI Raids - :: Cincinnati news story :: LOCAL 12 WKRC-TV in Cincinnati

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