First Manitoba grow-op house forfeited after Ste. Anne seizure
Manitoba won its first court order under the Criminal Property Forfeiture Act against a house at 8 Riviera Drive in Lake Riviera Estates, where RCMP had seized about 600 marijuana plants in July 2009. A Winnipeg couple arrested in the raid were released for an August court date; the province listed the house at $279,900.
🇨🇦 Lake Riviera Estates, east of Ste. Anne · Manitoba, Canada
Arrested
2
Plants destroyed
600
Value (official estimate)
CAD 600,000
On 8 July 2009, Steinbach RCMP executed a search warrant at a residence in Lake Riviera Estates, in the RM of Ste. Anne, seizing about 600 marijuana plants as well as packaged marijuana with an estimated street value of about $600,000.[1]A man and woman from Winnipeg were arrested and released for an August court date on several drug charges.[1]
On 11 March 2010 the province announced that the house at 8 Riviera Drive in Lake Riviera Estates, three miles east of Ste. Anne, had been forfeited to the province by court order under the Criminal Property Forfeiture Act, the first order under the legislation.[2]RCMP officers had seized more than 580 plants there in July 2009, and the province listed the house for sale at $279,900, directing proceeds to victim compensation, crime prevention and enforcement programs.[2]
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