BC police bust medical marihuana production company

The RCMP’s Federal Drug Enforcement Branch (DEB) has executed a search warrant on a property that was exceeding its medical marihuana production licenses by a factor of almost seven times.

On May 26, 2011, RCMP investigators were granted a warrant for a property in the 26000 block of 112th Avenue, Maple Ridge. The property featured a house, a large outbuilding or barn, and several trailers and vehicles. It was also the site of two approved Health Canada medical marihuana production licenses; one license was for the production of 122 marihuana plants, the second license allowed for the production of 98 plants, and the total allowable plants was 220.

However, at the time of the warrant police seized a total of 1490 plants. RCMP DEB officers arrested two men inside a barn (where the marihuana was being grown) and one inside the home on the property. In addition to the marihuana, police seized one R44 helicopter, two pickup trucks and three 30-40 foot enclosed mobile marihuana grow labs that were not yet in use.

During this investigation it became very clear to police that marihuana from this licensed operation was being sold in the Lower Mainland. This investigation is ongoing and police anticipate more arrests.