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Ontario Provincial Police in Almaguin Highlands have dismantled a large-scale cannabis production facility in Kearney Township, the size of which police say has not been seen before in the community.
Police say members of the Almaguin Highlands OPP Crime Unit executed a Cannabis Act search warrant Monday at 5:15 p.m. at a commercial building on Park Road.
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The Almaguin Highlands Crime Unit, OPP-led Provincial Joint Force Cannabis Enforcement Team, OPP Northeast Region Community Street Crime Unit, along with members of the Regional Support Team and Provincial Asset Forfeiture Unit, seized just under 5,000 cannabis plants, more than 200 pounds of processed cannabis and marijuana processing equipment.
Author of the article: The Daily Press
Publishing date: Feb 05, 2021 • February 5, 2021 • 1 minute read •
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Two individuals from Brunswick House First Nation are accused of providing the opioids which resulted in two fatal overdoses.
On Jan. 30, 2021, at approximately 6:30 a.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a residence where a 35-year-old person was found unresponsive and was later pronounced deceased.
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Then on Feb. 2, 2021, at approximately 5:15 p.m., officers performed a well-being check on a 55-year-old person and found them deceased inside their residence.
Purple Fentanyl. (File Photo)
Two people from Belleville and two people from Greater Napanee are facing drug charges according to Lennox and Addington OPP.
Members of the OPP East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), Lennox and Addington County OPP, Belleville Police Service and Project Renewal executed search warrants at a residence on Dundas Street in Napanee and on Station Street in Belleville on Friday.
Police seized a large quantity of purple Fentanyl, blue Fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, diazepam pills, nearly $8000 cash, a prohibited knife and drug trafficking items.
James Derushie, 45, and Lisa Douglas, both of Belleville, were charged with: