2,000 cannabis plants seized in Stirling-Rawdon Cooke Road raid
Central Hastings OPP and the provincial joint cannabis team raided a rural Cooke Road property in Stirling-Rawdon on 3 June 2021, seizing 2,000 cannabis plants valued by police at about $1.3 million. Two men from the Toronto area were arrested and charged with unlicensed cultivation and distribution offences.
🇨🇦 Cooke Road property, Stirling-Rawdon, Hastings County · Ontario, Canada
Central Hastings OPP officers with the Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis
Enforcement Team executed a search warrant at a rural property on Cooke Road
in Stirling-Rawdon at about 9:45 a.m. on 3 June 2021, after a lengthy
investigation.[1][2]Officers seized 2,000 cannabis plants, which police
estimated were worth about $1.3 million.[2][3]
Police arrested Phuc Dau Mac, 66, of Markham, and Wei Kuan Lee, 59, of
Toronto.[2]Both were charged with growing illicit cannabis, growing
cannabis somewhere other than their own dwelling, and possession of cannabis
for the purpose of distributing; they were released on bail to appear in a
Belleville court on 9 August.[1][2][3]
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