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Grow-op bust in Prince Rupert turns up tomatoes
Canwest News Service
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
VANCOUVER -- Red-faced police officers in Prince Rupert looking for a marijuana grow-op came up with a tomato-grow-op instead.
Commercial fisherman Bruce Aleksich said yesterday that about 15 RCMP officers burst into his business last Thursday, only to find 400 tomato plants in various stages of growth.
After a bleak spring, Aleksich said he decided to grow the tomatoes under lights.
When RCMP arrived at about 9 p.m., Aleksich told them he was a gardener with nothing but tasty tomatoes in the building.
Nevertheless, Aleksich, two employees and two visitors were forced to the ground.
"They had us on the floor for over an hour," he said. "All of us were cuffed. I don't know how it got to the point where guns were drawn."
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=80f3627a-b3d0-4ae0-b699-c2e46406f5aa
Canwest News Service
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
VANCOUVER -- Red-faced police officers in Prince Rupert looking for a marijuana grow-op came up with a tomato-grow-op instead.
Commercial fisherman Bruce Aleksich said yesterday that about 15 RCMP officers burst into his business last Thursday, only to find 400 tomato plants in various stages of growth.
After a bleak spring, Aleksich said he decided to grow the tomatoes under lights.
When RCMP arrived at about 9 p.m., Aleksich told them he was a gardener with nothing but tasty tomatoes in the building.
Nevertheless, Aleksich, two employees and two visitors were forced to the ground.
"They had us on the floor for over an hour," he said. "All of us were cuffed. I don't know how it got to the point where guns were drawn."
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=80f3627a-b3d0-4ae0-b699-c2e46406f5aa
