Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police East Region Community Street Crime Unit, with the Organised Crime Enforcement Bureau, the Emergency Response Team, the canine unit and the local detachment, executed a warrant at a property on Rowena Road in South Dundas Township on 21 September 2020.[1] Canada Border Services and Ottawa Police also attended.[1] The local paper found officers on site removing cannabis from numerous temporary greenhouses and the house on the property.[2]

Officers seized more than 1,700 cannabis plants and over 200 kilograms of processed cannabis, plus growing and processing equipment.[1] The property held up to 30 temporary greenhouses that the municipality had authorised with a building permit early in 2020.[2] Thirteen people were arrested at the location and all were charged with cultivating, propagating or harvesting more than four cannabis plants under the Cannabis Act.[1]

The bust was later described as part of a wider provincial takedown in which the OPP executed 52 warrants and arrested 195 people between July and October 2020 over criminal enterprises diverting medical-grow registrations into the illegal market.[3]