NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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NIAGARA — A search warrant performed by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)-led Provincial Joint Forces Hashish Enforcement Staff (PJFCET) has resulted within the seizure of hashish crops with a possible avenue worth of roughly $8 million.
This investigation started after police turned conscious of a powerful hashish odour emitting from what seemed to be an deserted warehouse situated on Don Murie Avenue in Niagara Falls.
Upon executing the search warrant on April 17, 2024, the next objects have been seized:
- Greater than 2,500 clone hashish crops
- Greater than 13,000 vegetative and mature budding hashish crops
On account of this investigation, the next people have been charged below the Hashish Act with Manufacturing- Domesticate Hashish With out Authorization:
- Chamrong Ladadas, 49 of no fastened handle
- Arthit Seesai, 31 of no fastened handle
- Xueqi Gao, 59 of no fastened handle
- Li Cheng Feng, 58 of no fastened handle
- Wen Guang Zheng, 66 of Markham
The suspects have been launched from custody and can seem earlier than an Ontario Court docket of Justice in St. Catharines on Could 30, 2024.
This investigation was supported by:
- OPP West Area Emergency Response Staff
- OPP City Search and Rescue, Chemical, Organic, Radioactive, Nuclear and Explosive Response Staff
- OPP-led Provincial Asset Forfeiture Unit
- Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS)
This investigation stays ongoing. Anybody with any details about the manufacturing of unauthorized or unlawful hashish is urged to name OPP at 1-888-310-1122, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), or to go to ontariocrimestoppers.ca.
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