Police in Kawartha Lakes remove 10,000 cannabis plants after growers evicted from site

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Members of the City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service removed approximately 10,000 cannabis plants from a site in Lindsay, Ont. late last month, according to a news release. In July, authorities in Kawartha Lakes seized more than 6,000 cannabis plants, estimated to be worth $6.2 million, and followed that up with another multi-million-dollar bust a few weeks later. It’s been a busy summer on the cannabis file for police in Kawartha Lakes, with several multi-million-dollar busts occurring in the past few months. In August, more than 2,200 cannabis were seized by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) from a property in Sebright, Ont. Massive OPP find yields ‘four dump trucks’ full of illicit cannabis plants Kawartha Lakes OPP make another multi-million dollar cannabis bust Ten people charged after $3.8M illegal grow-op found by OPP According to police, the 10,000 plants were also well over the limit of the 780 plants that the growers were licensed for.

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Members of the City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service removed approximately 10,000 cannabis plants from a site in Lindsay, Ont. late last month, according to a news release.

The address was being used by two licence-holders acting as designated growers for medical patients. However, the licences had expired and the growers had been evicted from the location.

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