Niagara warehouse raid ends in discharges for three workers
Three workers from a 15,000-plant unlicensed warehouse raided by Ontario police in Niagara Falls in April 2024 pleaded guilty and received conditional discharges on 1 May 2025. Six people were charged after the raid on the Don Murie Street warehouse, valued at about $8 million.
🇨🇦 Don Murie Street, Niagara Falls · Ontario, Canada
Ontario Provincial Police’s Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team seized 15,000 cannabis plants and charged six people in a search-warrant raid on a warehouse on Don Murie Street in Niagara Falls on 17 April 2024.[1][2]Police began the investigation after a strong smell of cannabis was noted outside what appeared to be an abandoned warehouse, and seized more than 2,500 clone plants plus more than 13,000 vegetative and mature budding plants with a potential street value of about $8 million.[1][2]The six charged were released and ordered to appear in St. Catharines court.[1]
Workers discharged
In court in St. Catharines on 1 May 2025, three of the men, Arthit Seesai, Xueqi Gao and Jeffrey Lian, pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis without authorization under federal law and were granted conditional discharges.[3]Their lawyer argued they were only workers who tended the plants, not connected to ownership of the operation.[3]The raid had involved the OPP’s West Region Emergency Response Team, its chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear and explosive team, the Provincial Asset Forfeiture Unit and Niagara Regional Police.[1][3]
Case data
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Shane Hendry, 30, received 122 days, treated as already served, plus a year of probation, for cannabis possession for distribution and resisting police after a Dieppe traffic stop. Officers reported two small bags of cannabis and $311,000 in cash; a warrant remains for the driver, Kyle Winston Rouse.
Alaaddin Koc, 56, of Windsor, Ontario, was sentenced on 21 September 2026 to one year in prison for trying to take about 31 kilograms of cannabis from Vancouver International Airport to London's Heathrow in October 2024. He pleaded guilty in July 2026; the court said credit for time served left 251 days to serve, and he was also given a lifetime firearms prohibition.
