Pubdate: Sun, 08 May 2005
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://torontosun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Chris Doucette

GROW-OP BUST ENDS IN DEATH

Woman Falls From 15TH Floor

A 45-YEAR-OLD woman, apparently trying to elude police, plunged 15 storeys 
to her death at an apartment building in the city's west end early yesterday.

Toronto Police arrived around 1 a.m. at a 15th-floor apartment at 10 Martha 
Eaton Way, just west of Tretheway Dr. and Black Creek Dr., to investigate a 
complaint of leaking water.

But when officers knocked on the door, residents of the unit refused to 
open it, police said.

As officers waited to gain entry, police allege Thi Thuy Pham -- one of two 
women in the apartment -- attempted to flee over the balcony by climbing to 
another one a floor below. However, she apparently slipped and fell to her 
death.

Officers later gained access to the unit and discovered a marijuana grow 
operation inside. Police say a large number of the plants had been harvested.

A second female resident of the apartment was later arrested. Thu Nguyen, 
33, faces charges of producing marijuana and possession of marijuana for 
the purpose of trafficking. She is to appear in bail court at Old City Hall 
today.

A mound of fresh flowers and several sticks of burning incense lay on the 
grass at the rear of the building last night marking the scene of Pham's death.
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