NOTEBOOK DETAILS WORK DONE

From germinating seeds on cookie sheets to weeding, watering and
shovelling manure, there was plenty of work to go around at what the
prosecution contends was the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan history.

A notebook labelled "payroll hours records" examined by jurors
Thursday at a Regina drug trial gives a glimpse of long days and
back-breaking work at the Fort Qu'Appelle-area site uncovered more
than two years ago.

The document indicates someone identified only as "Bob" worked as
much as 12 hours a day. Meanwhile, "Stan" spent more than 14 hours
over two days "shovelling cow shit," as the record reads. "John"
built a greenhouse; "Ian" was available "P/T after school;" and "The
Briguy," who started Friday the 13th, had duties that included making
water lines, weeding and "spegghetti (sic)." Even "Elvis" put in time.

The top of one page in the notebook reads, "first 3,000 out July."
There's also notations indicating the "summer grow schedule" began
April 20; there was transplanting into pots on May 18; "in ground" on
June 15; and "finish" would occur between Aug. 15 and 20.

On Aug. 21, 2005 RCMP, including members of the Emergency Response
Team (ERT), launched a pre-dawn raid on the site, located near the
properties of Joseph and Robert Agecoutay on the Pasqua First Nation.

On trial for unlawful production of marijuana and possession of
marijuana for the purpose of trafficking are [redacted].

Regina police Const. Jeff Wagner, a member of the integrated drug
unit, said he counted 6,088 plants growing in plots or greenhouses on
the site. When samples of those plants were analysed, they all
returned the same result -- cannabis marijuana.

During cross-examination of several witnesses, some of the six
defence lawyers have asked about industrial hemp.

Wagner also seized a laptop computer, found in the bushes by a police
dog tracking three men -- later identified as [redacted] -- who fled
from a teepee located near six large greenhouses.

Retired RCMP Cpl. Mike Boyce, who was with the technical crime unit,
said the portable computer, on which the owner was identified only as
"Luke," held thousands of photographs.

Among the images is a close-up of a lush, green plant that someone
has titled "looks Mexican." Another picture of plants is named
"breeders." In another photo named "Oooh baby," [redacted] is looking
out the rear of a vehicle filled with leafy, green plants.

Wagner also took possession of three shotguns and eight rifles.
According to analysis certificates, two of the shotguns -- found
inside [redacted] house -- had shorter than regulation barrels.
Wagner demonstrated how an approximately metre-long metal pipe was
found on the end of a sawed-off shotgun.

Crown prosecutor Darrell Blais is expected to call his final two
witnesses today and Monday.