783 cannabis plants seized on a military range near Nicolet
Canadian military police seized 783 mature cannabis plants growing in about 40 clusters on the Defence department's ammunition-testing ground near Nicolet, Quebec, in September 2003 after a tip from Quebec provincial police. No growers were identified and no arrests were reported.
🇨🇦 Munitions testing ground near Nicolet, Quebec · Quebec, Canada
Military police showed reporters 783 mature cannabis plants they had seized in
a grassy field owned by the Department of National Defence near Nicolet, a
town midway between Montreal and Quebec City.[1]The field, about 18
kilometres long and three kilometres wide, is an ammunition-testing ground,
and the plants grew in about 40 clusters of 20 to 50 plants each.[1]
The military had been tipped off by Quebec’s provincial police counterparts.[1]A second account put the seizure at close to 1,000 plants on the Armed
Forces artillery range at Nicolet.[2]A military spokesman, Captain Steve
Lebel, said investigators would probe whether outsiders or department
employees were behind the planting.[1]The facility is fenced on three
sides, leaving officials to speculate that the growers came by boat on the
St. Lawrence side.[1]
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