Pubdate: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 Source: Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Copyright: 2002 Canoe Limited Partnership Contact: http://www.fyiwinnipeg.com/winsun.shtml Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/503 Author: Jonathan Jenkins, Sun Media Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada) COPS BUST GROW OP THANKS TO DEAD MAN TORONTO -- A mysterious stiff led cops to a house full of spliffs in York Region. Police stumbled on the hydroponic grow operation in an upscale Richmond Hill home purely by chance, after checking out reports of a sudden death in the parking lot of Times Square Plaza before 4 p.m. Friday. Once at the plaza, they found two men saying they had been driving their friend to the hospital when he suddenly died. Checked Address A cursory examination of the body showed rigour mortis had already set in on the 55-year-old, an Australian citizen ostensibly in Canada on vacation. Curious, the police checked the address where the man was supposed to be staying and discovered the windows taped up and the entire home given over to the cultivation of 400 marijuana plants. Police estimate the drugs are worth up to $400,000. An autopsy yesterday confirmed the man died of a brain aneurysm and no charges have been laid in connection with his death. However, cops suspect his two friends were afraid of calling an ambulance to the home and decided to move the body and fudge the time death. Manhu Huu Le, 26, and Gioi Huu Le, 24, have been charged with theft of utilities, producing a controlled substance and possessing a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking. - --- MAP posted-by: Jackl