This undated image, censored by police, shows a U.S. soldier being questioned during a synthetic cannabis raid inside a barracks at Camp Casey, South Korea. (Gyeonggi Provincial Police Office)

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — Seventeen American soldiers and five others are under investigation for allegedly possessing and intending to distribute synthetic cannabis near two U.

S. military bases this year.

A joint raid in May by the Pyeongtaek Police Station and the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division found 2.7 ounces of synthetic cannabis, over 145 ounces of “mixed liquids” for vaping and $12,850 in cash at the 22 suspects’ homes, the Southern Gyeonggi Provincial Police Office said in a news release Wednesday.

The 17 soldiers are stationed at Camp Humphreys, about 30 miles south of Seoul, and at Camp Casey, an Army outpost about 25 miles north of the capital, according to the provincial police.

The suspects possessed or trafficked synthetic cannabis between March and August, police said. One male soldier, 24, is believed to have smuggled around 11 ounces of synthetic cannabis into the country in plastic bottles.

Images released by the provincial police showed plainclothes Army investigators and local police searching barracks at Humphreys and Casey and off-post homes.

This undated image, censored by police, shows two U.S. service members accused of trafficking synthetic marijuana in Pyeongtaek city, South Korea.

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