{"version":1,"id":"ca/mb","name":"Manitoba, Canada","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/ca/mb/","count":4,"totals":{"reports":4,"arrested":5,"plants_destroyed":3050,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":0,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":0,"seizure":0,"raid":2,"arrest":1,"prosecution":1,"sentence":0,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2010-03-11","reports":[{"id":"ste-anne-riviera-grow-op-forfeiture","code":"CET-KDFWTB","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ste-anne-riviera-grow-op-forfeiture/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/KDFWTB/","date":"2010-03-11","added_at":"2026-11-04T01:09:18.243Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"ca/mb","country_name":"Manitoba, Canada","place":"Lake Riviera Estates, east of Ste. Anne","coordinates":[49.6711,-96.6537],"precision":"district","type":"prosecution","also":[],"title":"First Manitoba grow-op house forfeited after Ste. Anne seizure","summary":"Manitoba won its first court order under the Criminal Property Forfeiture Act against a house at 8 Riviera Drive in Lake Riviera Estates, where RCMP had seized about 600 marijuana plants in July 2009. A Winnipeg couple arrested in the raid were released for an August court date; the province listed the house at $279,900.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":2,"plants_destroyed":600,"value":{"amount":600000,"currency":"CAD"}},"tags":["grow-op","forfeiture"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["The province's release dates the seizure to 7 July 2009 while the RCMP release dates the raid to 8 July; the report uses the RCMP's date.","Names and court outcomes for the arrested couple were not published in the opened sources.","No photograph of the event with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources."],"sources":[{"title":"Marijuana grow operation in the RM of Ste. Anne","url":"https://www.mysteinbach.ca/newsblog/3164.html","publisher":"mySteinbach","date":"2009-07-08","archived":null},{"title":"Former Grow-op Forfeited to Province","url":"https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=7936&posted=2010-03-11","publisher":"Government of Manitoba","date":"2010-03-11","archived":null}]},{"id":"ste-anne-richer-grow-ops-charges","code":"CET-8Z2G22","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ste-anne-richer-grow-ops-charges/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/8Z2G22/","date":"2009-05-19","added_at":"2026-11-04T01:09:18.243Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"ca/mb","country_name":"Manitoba, Canada","place":"Rural properties near Richer, RM of Ste. Anne","coordinates":[49.6573,-96.4567],"precision":"district","type":"raid","also":["arrest"],"title":"1,600 plants seized in linked Ste. Anne grow-ops; two charged","summary":"Steinbach RCMP seized about 1,600 marijuana plants in raids on two linked rural properties near Richer on 19 May 2009, along with stolen vehicles and a firearm. Anton Penner, 49, and Edwin Harder-Fehr, 28, were charged the next day with cannabis production and related offences; police put the street value near $1.6 million.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":2,"plants_destroyed":1600,"value":{"amount":1600000,"currency":"CAD"}},"tags":["grow-op","rcmp"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["Court outcomes for Penner and Harder-Fehr were not covered in the opened sources.","The exact locations of the two rural properties were not published in the opened sources.","No photograph of the event with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources."],"sources":[{"title":"Steinbach RCMP seize 1600 marijuana plants in drug busts","url":"https://www.mysteinbach.ca/newsblog/2502.html","publisher":"mySteinbach","date":"2009-05-19","archived":null},{"title":"Two charged in local drug bust","url":"https://www.mysteinbach.ca/newsblog/2536.html","publisher":"mySteinbach","date":"2009-05-20","archived":null}]},{"id":"winnipeg-royalwood-grow-houses-raids","code":"CET-3EV1AF","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/winnipeg-royalwood-grow-houses-raids/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/3EV1AF/","date":"2008-09-24","added_at":"2026-11-04T01:09:18.243Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"ca/mb","country_name":"Manitoba, Canada","place":"Royalwood, Winnipeg","coordinates":[49.8362,-97.0797],"precision":"locality","type":"raid","also":[],"title":"Grow operations found in three Royalwood houses; 850 plants seized","summary":"Winnipeg police found marijuana grow operations in three houses in the Royalwood neighbourhood in 2008, seizing more than 850 plants at 31 Northport Bay on 24 September. The province sought forfeiture of all three houses, together valued at about $1.2 million, in the first cases under its new Criminal Property Forfeiture Act.","status":"verified","figures":{"plants_destroyed":850},"tags":["grow-op","forfeiture"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["No plant counts for the two Beaudry Bay houses were published in the opened sources.","No arrests or charges for the three houses were reported in the opened sources.","The forfeiture outcome for the two Beaudry Bay houses was not covered in the opened sources.","No photograph of the event with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources."],"sources":[{"title":"First Court Action Taken Under Manitoba's Criminal Property Forfeiture Act","url":"https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=6696&posted=2009-09-10","publisher":"Government of Manitoba","date":"2009-09-10","archived":null},{"title":"Criminal Property Forfeiture Act Continues to Show Results","url":"https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=9402&posted=2010-08-12","publisher":"Government of Manitoba","date":"2010-08-12","archived":null}]},{"id":"winnipeg-emery-smoke-in-arrest-2003","code":"CET-R69AG1","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/winnipeg-emery-smoke-in-arrest-2003/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/R69AG1/","date":"2003-07-09","added_at":"2026-11-04T03:22:32.347Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":null,"country":"ca/mb","country_name":"Manitoba, Canada","place":"Winnipeg, Manitoba","coordinates":[49.895,-97.138],"precision":"locality","type":"arrest","also":[],"title":"Marc Emery arrested at Winnipeg smoke-in opening cross-country tour","summary":"Police arrested cannabis activist Marc Emery in Winnipeg on 9 July 2003 as he tried to light a bong at the first stop of his cross-country Summer of Legalization tour. He was held overnight at the Winnipeg Remand Centre and missed his next stop in Dauphin.","status":"verified","figures":{"arrested":1},"tags":["marc-emery","smoke-in","tour"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"muse-code/muse-spark-1.3#xhigh","open_questions":["Whether the half-gram possession allegation was ever tried or dropped was not reported in the opened sources.","Front-page photographs of the arrest ran in the Winnipeg Sun and Winnipeg Free Press, but no direct image address for them could be recovered."],"sources":[{"title":"Marc Emery arrested in Winnipeg","url":"https://mediahysteria.livejournal.com/67507.html","publisher":"Cannabis Culture (via LiveJournal)","date":"2003-07-09","archived":null},{"title":"Cops Dismiss Pot Provocateur","url":"http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1105/a06.html","publisher":"Edmonton Sun (via MAPINC)","date":"2003-07-22","archived":null},{"title":"Canada Cannabis Cauldron Bubbling Again","url":"https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/354/cauldron.shtml","publisher":"Drug War Chronicle (StopTheDrugWar.org)","date":"2004-09-17","archived":null},{"title":"Marc Emery released from Winnipeg jail","url":"https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/marc-emery-released-from-winnipeg-jail.7351/","publisher":"420 Magazine","date":"2003-08-02","archived":null}]}]}