The Haliburton Highlands OPP has charged two people with drug offences after officers attended an illegal cannabis grow operation on Soyers Lake Road last week.
On Sept. 26, officers from the local detachment joined the OPP’s community street crime unit, tactics and rescue unit, canine unit, emergency response team and provincial joint forces cannabis enforcement team in executing a search warrant at a property in Minden Hills. They seized 2,413 cannabis plants, 20 shotgun shells and one air rifle.
Police say the street value of the cannabis is approximately $700,000.
Following an investigation, police charged 54-year-old Guo-Zhang Chen and 36-year-old Yaping Wu, both of Scarborough, with cultivating, propagating or harvesting a cannabis plant that is from seed, or plant material that is illicit cannabis.
The accused have been released and will appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Minden at a later date.
