Marijuana grow operation unplugged near Falkland

VERNON – A month long investigation ended with an RCMP emergency response team raiding a suspected grow operation in the Falkland area.

The heavily armed officers executed a search warrant Thursday, Feb. 26 once it was determined there wasn’t a medicinal marijuana license associated with the property, North Okanagan RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says in a media release.

Police searched numerous buildings including a large metal building where they found a grow op.

Two men, both from Nelson, and two women from the Lower Mainland were arrested and over 700 pot plants were seized.

There is no word on what charges the suspects face.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Howard Alexander at halexander@infonews.ca or call 250-491-0331. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

— This story was updated at 1:09 p.m., Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 to clarify information provided by the RCMP.

Howard Alexander

Assistant Editor Howard Alexander comes to iNFOnews.ca from the broadcasting side of the media business.

Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.

He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.

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