Pubdate: Sat, 19 Apr 2003
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2003, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.fyitoronto.com/torsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Ian Robertson, Toronto Sun
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

PARTNERS SNIFF OUT POT FARM

$2M Hamilton Bust

Two cops with a nose for illegal weed stumbled on a $2-million marijuana 
farm hidden under a Hamilton building.

Det.-Const. Kim Walker said he and Hamilton Police partner Det.-Const. Gord 
Gross "got a big whiff of the weed" as they were driving along Ottawa St. 
N. on Wednesday.

When they looked inside, all they saw was a large empty ground floor with a 
few abandoned tools, "which made it look vacant," Walker said. "There was 
no odour at all."

The pair parked in a lot across the street, where they again inhaled waves 
of pot. The fumes were coming from a city sewer.

They called in a city works crew and a hydro team who uncovered an 
extensive power-theft link to the building. Walker and Gross obtained a 
search warrant.

In the basement, they found 3,000 marijuana plants in various stages of 
growth, plus $100,000 worth of equipment, including three new furnaces and 
air conditioners that exhausted into to the city sewer system.

No one has been arrested.
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