51,031 cannabis plants seized in Ottawa-region blitz
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.
🇨🇦 National Capital Region (Ottawa-Gatineau) · Canada
Plants destroyed
51,031
Cannabis
207 kg
Police seized more than 50,000 marijuana plants and 207 kilograms of bulk
marijuana buds during Project Sabot, a one-month crackdown in the National
Capital Region.[1]Aerial patrols targeting outdoor grow operations located
51,031 plants between 22 August and 27 September 2007, according to an RCMP
news release issued on Friday 5 October.[1]
The operation joined the Department of National Defence, the RCMP drug
section’s A Division, the Ontario and Quebec provincial police forces and the
Des Collines municipal police.[1]The release said the seizures were meant
to cut the risks of drug use and to deny marijuana profits that financed
criminal activity.[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.
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.
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.