POLICE RAID INDUSTRIAL-SIZED MARIJUANA OPERATION

MISSION - RCMP interrupted an industrial-sized marijuana harvest in a
raid on a Fraser Valley farm.

Inside a two-storey barn they found 48 workers in the middle of
cutting down more than 3,000 marijuana plants.

One person in the house also was arrested.

The high-tech hydro bypass ran 12 industrial-sized air conditioners
and hundreds of thousand-watt grow lights.

Cpl. Murray Power said interrupting the harvest was a stroke of
luck.

"I've come across a harvest probably twice in my service," he said.
"To find 49 people is phenomenal." Power said most of those arrested
didn't know where they were.

The workers -- all from the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley -- were
brought to the marijuana factory in the back of a cube van and
returned after their shift.