{"id":156042,"date":"2026-04-03T04:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156042\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:57:28","slug":"large-amount-of-marijuana-seized-in-rankin-drug-bust-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156042\/","title":{"rendered":"Large amount of marijuana seized in Rankin drug bust, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large amount of marijuana was seized from a home in Rankin Borough during a drug bust on Thursday, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crimewatch.net\/us\/pa\/allegheny\/eastern-regional-mon-valley-pd\/275290\/post\/stolen-firearm-drugs-seized?fbclid=IwY2xjawQ70HBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEebjCGTOnYeN5i6ga6OwixFUqs1p589lZDZiZ2kSeYyECTKYLmpEAouA6xozU_aem_RRVz-UspjwjzMw5c9TLpew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Eastern Regional Mon Valley Police Department said<\/a> that officers executed a search warrant Thursday at a home along Rankin Boulevard with the assistance of the Pitcairn Police Department and the Swissvale-Braddock Hills Regional Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The warrant was issued as part of an investigation into narcotics violations, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that officers seized a quantity of marijuana and a gun that was later found to have been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>A photo from the department shows what appears to be a large amount of marijuana packed into multiple plastic bags and two large containers. A specific amount of marijuana that was seized was not given by police.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kdka-rankin-boulevard-drug-bust.png#.png\" alt=\"kdka-rankin-boulevard-drug-bust.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A large amount of marijuana and a stolen handgun were seized from a home along Rankin Boulevard during a drug bust on Thursday, according to the Eastern Regional Mon Valley Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>                Eastern Regional Mon Valley Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Police said that a 28-year-old man from Rankin will be facing multiple charges in connection with the drug bust. The man&#8217;s identity was not revealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear at this time what specific charges the man will face.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large amount of marijuana was seized from a home in Rankin Borough during a drug bust on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20372,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-156042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-drug-bust","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}