Nearly 2,000 plants seized in Calgary's biggest grow-op bust in a year
The Southern Alberta Marijuana Investigative Team raided a house in Calgary's West Springs district on 6 December 2004, seizing nearly 2,000 cannabis plants worth over CAD$2.4 million. It was the unit's biggest bust in a year and part of a record year approaching 72,000 plants seized.
🇨🇦 West Springs Place SW, Calgary, Alberta · Alberta, Canada
Plants destroyed
2,000
Value (official estimate)
CAD 2,400,000
The Southern Alberta Marijuana Investigative Team, a joint unit of the RCMP,
Calgary police and Alberta’s criminal intelligence service, broke down the
door of a house in the 100 block of West Springs Place SW on the afternoon of
Monday 6 December 2004.[1]Officers found a sophisticated three-stage
marijuana dirt-grow operation holding nearly 2,000 plants, plus 300 clones in
a refrigerator, in what the team called its biggest bust since the previous
December.[1][2]
Police said the crop could have earned dealers over $2.4 million once matured
and sold on the street.[1]The raid capped a record year in which Calgary
drug squads took just under 72,000 plants off the market, worth nearly $87
million, up from about $50 million the year before.[1]
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