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Owners of local marijuana dispensary arrested

by The AV Times Staff • April 28, 2015

Jabe Satterfield, 77, and Tiffany Shorter, 26, both Pomona residents owned the Green Cactus Collective Medical Marijuana Dispensary, which was located at 36153 Sierra Highway, according to the Department of Insurance. Both were arrested on suspicion of workers' compensation fraud for allegedly failing to carry the coverage for their employees. (Photos courtesy California Department of Insurance.)
Jabe Satterfield, 77, and Tiffany Shorter, 26, both of Pomona, owned the Green Cactus Collective Medical Marijuana Dispensary, which was located at 36153 Sierra Highway, according to the Department of Insurance. Both were arrested on suspicion of workers’ compensation fraud for allegedly failing to carry the coverage for their employees. (Photos courtesy California Department of Insurance.)

LOS ANGELES – The owners of a medical marijuana dispensary in the Antelope Valley were arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud, the state Department of Insurance announced Tuesday.

Owners Jabe Satterfield and Tiffany Shorter failed to carry workers’ compensation benefits for their employees and they allegedly told a security officer to lie about his employment status after he sustained severe injuries from two separate robberies at the dispensary, leaving him without benefits and responsible for expensive medical bills, state officials said in a press release.

Satterfield, 77, was arrested April 6, and he was arraigned and released pending a May 18 court appearance in the downtown Criminal Courts building, state officials said. Shorter, 26, was arrested April 14 and released, pending a tentative May 18 arraignment at the downtown Criminal Courts building.

The pair owned the Green Cactus Collective Medical Marijuana Dispensary, which was located at 36153 Sierra Highway, according to the Department of Insurance. A new medical marijuana dispensary is now located at this location, and it has not been verified if Shorter and Satterfield are associated with the new business, state officials said.

In November of 2013, a 34-year-old security officer was shot three times while suspects robbed the dispensary. (Photo by LUIS MEZA)
In November of 2013, a 34-year-old security officer was shot three times while suspects robbed the dispensary. (Photo by LUIS MEZA)

In November of 2013, a security officer was shot three times while suspects robbed the dispensary. (Read more here.) Shorter and Satterfield allegedly told their employee to lie to hospital personnel by saying he was a volunteer and not an employee, which made him ineligible for workers’ compensation insurance benefits, according to the Department of Insurance.

“The employee, without workers’ compensation benefits and in fear of losing his job, continued working,” state officials said in a press release.

In December of 2013, the dispensary was robbed again and the same employee, while still recovering from gunshot wounds from the prior attack, was beaten with a firearm and sustained further injuries, according to the Department of Insurance.

“Again, the lack of coverage by his employers left him without medical benefits and liable for all medical expenses,” state officials said in a press release.

Shorter and Satterfield face up to four years in prison each if convicted, state officials said.

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Previous related story: Palmdale pot clinic shootout

Filed Under: Crime/ Safety

6 comments for "Owners of local marijuana dispensary arrested"

  1. missing the point says

    May 1, 2015 at 1:55 am

    I just want to say that people that don’t really know what they are talking about regarding medical marijuana causes brain damage or makes you forgetful really shouldn’t say anything because they don’t…. they don’t… I forgot what I was going to say…..

  2. Hp says

    April 30, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    Idiots

  3. Bill says

    April 30, 2015 at 8:57 am

    I’m sorry Eric, what does not having Workers Compensation Insurance and lying to investigators and employees lie to investigators have not having a bank account? You can’t fix stupid; that’s just an excuse. I know for a fact that the owners where told that must have Workers Compensation Insurance, but they chose not too.

  4. David says

    April 29, 2015 at 3:41 am

    Hang both of them!

  5. Anon says

    April 28, 2015 at 11:50 pm

    I know for a fact these people are associate of not still owning the new dispensary at that location!! The same exact people work there and say same owners just new name!!! I hate these [removed] such scum!! That security guard was the best employee there!!!

  6. Eric says

    April 28, 2015 at 2:49 pm

    Enough with the stupidity. Let these businesses have access to the banking system.

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