Project OSABOT eradicates 4,700 outdoor plants in southwestern Ontario
Five police services with military support seized and destroyed about 4,700 outdoor marijuana plants across southwestern Ontario between 14 and 18 September 2009. Police valued the haul at close to 4.7 million dollars and reported no arrests from the five-day operation.
Five police services, supported by the Department of National Defence, teamed
up to eradicate outdoor marijuana grows across southwestern Ontario between
14 and 18 September 2009 in an initiative dubbed Project OSABOT.[1]The
Marihuana Eradication Team brought together officers from the Brantford
Police Service, the Hamilton Police Service, the Niagara Regional Police, the
Ontario Provincial Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.[1]
The team targeted outdoor grows throughout the Hamilton and Niagara regions
and Brant, Norfolk and Haldimand counties.[1]About 4,700 marijuana plants
were seized and destroyed over the five days, with an estimated value of
close to 4.7 million dollars.[1]Police said pooling information, people and
equipment made the seizures larger and more cost-effective, and that similar
teams had run earlier phases out of Kitchener, Kingston and London.[1]
Ontario's cannabis enforcement team searched properties in Stone Mills and Madoc on 7 October, seizing 1,072 plants, processed cannabis and a stolen vehicle worth over $1.8 million. No one was at either site; power was cut over fire and electrical hazards and inquiries continue.
Four southwestern Ontario police services with the Canadian Armed Forces seized and destroyed close to 2,700 outdoor cannabis plants between 19 and 21 August 2013 in Project O-SABOT, the Ontario arm of the national Operation SABOT.
Police seized 51,031 outdoor marijuana plants and 207 kilograms of bulk buds during Project Sabot, a one-month crackdown across the National Capital Region that ended 27 September 2007. Aerial patrols found the plots; the RCMP announced the results on 5 October.
Police destroyed 19,000 mature cannabis plants at about 350 sites across Vancouver Island in a nine-day air-and-land operation ending 29 August 2007, beating the previous year's record of 16,500. Two people found tending a crop near Campbell River were arrested, with charges pending.