Second June raid in Stirling-Rawdon nets 2,000 plants on Springbrook Road
Central Hastings OPP and the provincial joint cannabis team raided a second rural Stirling-Rawdon property on Springbrook Road on 22 June 2021, seizing more than 2,000 plants, two pounds of processed cannabis and a pickup truck. Two Toronto men were charged with unlicensed cultivation, three weeks after the Cooke Road raid in the same township.
🇨🇦 Springbrook Road property, Stirling-Rawdon, Hastings County · Ontario, Canada
Officers of the Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team with the
Central Hastings OPP Community Street Crime Unit executed a warrant at a rural
property on Springbrook Road in Stirling-Rawdon at about 8 a.m. on 22 June
2021, after an extensive investigation.[1][2]Officers seized more than
2,000 cannabis plants, two pounds of processed marijuana (about 0.91 kg) and
a pickup truck; police valued the haul at about $2 million.[1][2]
Junli Chen, 44, and Ai Min Yang, 56, both of Toronto, were charged with two
counts each of cultivating cannabis illegally.[2][3]Quinte News gives the
charges as cultivating illicit cannabis and cultivating at a place other than
their dwelling.[1]Both men were released from custody to appear at the
Ontario Court of Justice in Belleville on 9 August 2021.[1][2]
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