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 veggie
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 [CAN] B.C. marijuana growers going underground to hide crops 
#12551529 - 05/12/10 08:10 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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B.C. marijuana growers going underground to hide crops
May 12, 2010 - vancouversun.com
 B.C. pot growers are increasingly turning to sophisticated underground bunkers to hide their illicit crop from law enforcement agencies.
S.Sgt. Dave Goddard, of the RCMP's Greater Vancouver Drug Section, said the bunkers can be high-end with a cement foundation, wiring and sensors or less sophisticated like the hidden underground shipping containers found by police in Mission this week.
"They are doing everything possible to avoid detection and if it means relocating underground, absolutely -- we are seeing much more of this going on," Goddard said Wednesday. "It has become much more prevalent not only here on the Lower Mainland, but up-country as well. We are also seeing more bunkers in the interior of British Columbia."
Mission RCMP Cpl. Raina Siou said officers were called to assist firefighters at a rural property in the 36000-block of Ridgeview Road Monday morning after a fire broke out in four large shipping containers full of pot and buried underground.
More than 2,000 plants were located on the acreage that appears to be connected to a neighbouring property. Nobody has yet been charged, but police are dealing with the owner, Siou said.
The growers would have needed both a backhoe and a crane to set their operation up, Siou said.
And they had placed piping to siphon water from a near-by creek and to run wiring to the bunker grow-op.
"It takes a lot of time to set something like that up and check on it to make sure it is working properly," Siou said. "Out in our rural areas, especially in Mission, this is a trend. We have seen it before and I am sure we'll see it again."
She said those working in the bunker would have been at risk.
"They are down there working in this and it is really dangerous. I am sure they are not wearing little air quality controllers to make sure the air is safe," she said.
Siou said the RCMP had to bring in a specialist in "confined spaces training to offer his expertise and knowledge in investigating bunker-style marijuana grow operations."
"He utilized an air quality control sensor, which is a tool that reads air quality in confined spaces. The device alerted members that there was not enough oxygen for personnel in the space to carry on their investigation," Siou said. "The bunker had to be vented with air for sometime before it was safe for officers to enter."
She said conservation officers were also called in to assess the impact on the stream that had been diverted for the illicit operation.
Last month, Abbotsford police uncovered an even more sophisticated bunker with more 1,750 plants in it.
The grow operation was under a barn and covered with a retractable concrete floor. Police also found motion sensors and a cache of weapons.
An Abbotsford man and a Mission associate are facing production, possession and trafficking charges.
Goddard said with the high start-up costs associated to the larger more sophisticated grow-ops, organized crime has to be behind them.
"This is somebody who actually has got some financial means behind them. So it does mean that organized crime is becoming more and more prevalent in the growing of marijuana."
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Simplepowa
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Re: [CAN] B.C. marijuana growers going underground to hide crops [Re: veggie]
#12551624 - 05/12/10 08:21 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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legalize it
problem solved
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Re: [CAN] B.C. marijuana growers going underground to hide crops [Re: veggie] 1
#12552477 - 05/12/10 10:53 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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I find it hard to believe the air is really unsafe down there. If they were able to actually grow marijuana in large quantities down there they'd have to have some kind of venting or the stuff wouldn't grow after the fresh air was all used up. It may have been unsafe after removing the ventilation system they had set up, that I might believe.
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 Re: [CAN] B.C. marijuana growers going underground to hide crops [Re: Mycjunky]
#12553302 - 05/13/10 01:39 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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plants photosynthesising to produce oxygen has regulated the air quality of the atmosphere for quite some time now. still i only use my underground bunker for huffing gas nowdays.
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kelpfish
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Re: [CAN] B.C. marijuana growers going underground to hide crops [Re: ssv]
#12554296 - 05/13/10 09:25 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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are they fkin tard? Plants create oxygen jesus fkin christ and they tell us we need to goto school!!!! And I bet the air down there is alot better then up there seeing as the plants are filters.... duhh
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