FBI Raids Virginia Senator’s Office in Corruption Probe Reportedly Started Under Biden
Other agents searched “a cannabis dispensary believed to be connected to” Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas.
The FBI has executed a search warrant at the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas.
*UPDATE AT 2:15 EDT*: The Washington Post reported that the probe started under the Biden administration.
A federal law enforcement officer told Bill Melugin the same.
NEW: I'm told by federal law enforcement source familiar with the case that this corruption probe was opened by the FBI during the Biden administration.
NYT reporting the same. https://t.co/as2PM1QZzk
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 6, 2026
Fox News reported that the raid is connected to a “federal corruption and illegal marijuana sale probe.”
Other agents searched “a cannabis dispensary believed to be connected to Lucas.”
Local station WAVY learned that Lucas co-owns the cannabis dispensary.
Alex Hogan reported:
The FBI here telling us today that these are court authorized criminal search warrants that they are issuing. They’re going into the building behind me. This is the office here in Portsmouth of state senator Louise Lucas. You can likely see some of the FBI agents behind me. All of the staffers inside this building were told to come outside. I could hear them saying that they were not allowed back in the building. Throughout the last hour, we’ve been seeing the FBI come and go carrying boxes out of the building.
Now, just across the parking lot next to where I am, there is a cannabis dispensary. We know that the state senator is associated with several cannabis locations and dispensaries, and what we’re seeing there is a completely different scene, carrying out, SWAT teams arrived with their weapons drawn, telling anyone in the building to come out of the building with their hands up. We also saw at least three people being taken away, taken into custody. First they were put in handcuffs, put on the ground, and then they were taken away. So it’s a slightly less large presence than we did see earlier, but there still is a good amount of FBI agents still here on the ground.
Also what happened within the last hour, the senator Louise Lucas arrived here herself. I was able to speak with her. I asked her what her reaction was to all of this. She told me she had no idea what they were doing here. I asked her about the different locations that they might be at. She, in response, asked me, what locations the FBI were at today. We know, according to officials, at least 10 locations are being looked at today.
NOW: An FBI raid is unfolding at the office of Virginia Democratic State Sen. Louise Lucas — and it’s already drawing serious attention.
Multiple people on the scene are reportedly being taken into custody as agents move through the area.
The office sits near several cannabis… pic.twitter.com/WIcn9xrzOy
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 6, 2026
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Performative?
Probably.
One can always hope. Black, female Democrat in Virginia? Lot of get out of jail free cards.
How far this country has fallen in my lifetime. Pols were always crooks but they seem more worthless and petty now,
Then again maybe this is just another flavor of “back in my time, or when I was a youth”.
Corruption opportunities in the marijuana business for sure, given the wide gap between production costs and prices both wholesale and retail.
green is the new black
Louise you got some splainin to do!
If the “investigation” was opened under the Big Guy, then Louise received unofficial notice two years ago, and has had plenty of time to clean things up. She’s probably wondering what took them so long.
The article covers pretty much everything except what crime is alleged to have been committed. Being an investor or even a principal in a legal weed dispensary isn’t a crime, even for a legislator.
I’ve been wondering about that too. If the FBI is involved, then it wouldn’t be something involving Virginia’s marijuana regulations. Off the top of my head, money laundering of some sort, or maybe moving marijuana across state lines. That’s all that comes to mind.
In addition to co-owning the Cannabis Outlet, VA State Sen Louise Lucas also has ownership in these businesses:
The Lucas Lodge, Portsmouth Day Support Program, and Southside Direct Care.
Those catch my eye. They are healthcare and disability assistance businesses.
Lucas Lodge in particular has a history of serious incidents, including deaths, and the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services website shows multiple Corrective Action Plans (CAP) across the past five years.
In her role as a state senator, Lucas serves on the Education and Health Committee, which oversees Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS), as well as the Departments of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) and Health (VDH).
All nice, but the FBI is raiding the weed dealer.
Is she trying to pull the health care fraud like a Somali pirate.
Could be more to this indictment than just weed dealing.
“under the fjb admin
so what
it coulkd have been after the trump victory and once again the left started something that would be deemed unpopular so that it would linger into the trump admin and the msm could choose when to make it a big deal ( no matter when the fbi choose to act) so that the elections would show blks that trumps after them
I was hoping for a big Democrat scandal (like Lucas being the drug dealer for the entire Democrat political elite), but this seems to be nothing more than garden variety corruption.
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