MORE THAN 20 MARIJUANA-GROWING OPERATIONS TARGETED BY POLICE IN LATEST CRACKDOWN MISSION - A renewed focus on marijuana-growing operations has paid off for Mission RCMP, who have busted upward of 20 operations in the past three months. Since hiring a full-time grow op investigator in the fall, the detachment has increased its grow-busting ratio almost two-fold. "Before if you talked to anyone in town, you knew to grow in Mission . . . it wasn't targeted," said RCMP Sgt. Rhonda Leigh. "Now we're targeting it and dedicated to it." Since the start of November, officers have seized more than 15,000 pot plants and 500-600 pounds of dried bud from Mission homes -- many of them rented. Leigh warned homeowners they could be billed for the clean-up of their renters' grow op -- which usually costs thousands of dollars -- or potentially have their home seized. Anyone with information about grow ops in Mission should call police at 604-826-7161.
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