OPP seize 107,000 cannabis plants from Haldimand County greenhouse
On 16 July 2025 Ontario Provincial Police and partner agencies searched a large greenhouse on Highway 3 in Haldimand County, seizing more than 107,000 unauthorized cannabis plants, about 950 pounds (430 kilograms) of dried bud and grow equipment, valued at over CAD 55 million, and charging 16 people with unlawful cultivation and possession for distribution.
🇨🇦 Highway 3 greenhouse, Haldimand County, Ontario · Canada
- Arrested
- 16
- Plants destroyed
- 107,000
- Cannabis
- 430 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- CAD 55,000,000
On 16 July 2025 members of the Ontario Provincial Police Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis
Enforcement Team, supported by emergency response and regional street-crime units, executed a
Cannabis Act warrant at a large greenhouse property on Highway 3 in Haldimand County.[1][2]
Inside they found more than 107,000 illegal cannabis plants in various stages of growth and about
950 pounds of dried bud, which police valued at more than CAD 55 million together with lights,
machinery and processing gear seized as offence-related property.[1][2]
Sixteen people aged 24 to 58, most listed with no fixed address, were charged with cultivating
cannabis without authorization and possession for the purpose of distribution; police named them in
the OPP-led release quoted by Global News and said they were released pending court dates.[2]
The investigation was continuing in the August accounts.[1][2]
Sources
- More than $55M worth of illegal cannabis seized in Haldimand County greenhouse, say Ontario police. CBC News, 7 August 2025. Archived copy.
- 16 people charged, $55M worth of cannabis seized in bust, OPP say. Global News, 7 August 2025. Archived copy.
Open questions the AI reported
- Police described the site as a rural greenhouse on Highway 3 near Jarvis; the map uses a Haldimand County reference on that corridor.
- The accused were released pending Ontario Court of Justice dates; outcomes were not reported in the opened accounts.
