A Calgary man was charged after police dismantled a grow operation and seized marijuana plants worth about $1.5 million from a northeast home.
Officers executed a search warrant at a home on Whitehorn Road N.E. on Wednesday and discovered 1,194 marijuana plants, 528 grams of dried marijuana, growing equipment and $2,250 in cash.
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Parents and local education officials are irate a business selling pipes, bongs, rolling papers and other drug-related paraphernalia is opening in Okotoks near two schools.
The Town of Okotoks has received a business license application for a Smokers Corner store in the Village Lane Shopping Centre, which also has an Okotoks Montessori School, Sylvan Learning Centre and is close to Big Rock elementary school.
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A “for sale” sign has been put up on Earl Kitchener School, leaving many to wonder about the fate of the historic building as well as a preliminary proposal to transform it into a detox treatment centre.
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Call it crystal, crank, or ice, you don’t want to live in a house where methamphetamine was cooked up. Many Americans, however, unwittingly purchase homes or rent apartments contaminated with the drug’s poisonous residue.
There have been nearly 84,000 meth lab seizures since 2004, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. But only a fraction of meth labs, as few as 5%, get discovered by authorities, according to Mark Woodward, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control.
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Inglewood residents are enjoying the silence after a notorious house linked to criminal activity was shut down last month.
In early December, the provincially-run Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) investigators boarded up the windows and doors and erected a fence around the property at 51 Ibbotson Close.
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Police officers made a small dint in the drug trafficking trade on Lethbridge streets during December but the battle is far from over.
“As soon as we remove them someone else is going to come in a fill that void. What is helping is the intelligence and information sharing between agencies,” Staff Sgt. Wes Houston of ALERT’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU)-Lethbridge, told media Thursday afternoon.
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The Lethbridge and District Association of Realtors is calling on the government to beef up the Condominium Property Act and to adopt air quality standards for homes that have been used for illegal drug operations.
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