POMO POT CRACKDOWN

In what is becoming a familiar scene in Port Moody, police seized
hundreds of marijuana plants from an upscale home and arrested its
occupants Monday morning.

Const. Brian Soles of PoMo Police said it was the 24th pot bust in the
city since their campaign on grow-ops started this summer - and he
said it won't be the last.

"We're going to get every one," he said. "We are sending a message
loud and clear."

In the latest take-down, PMPD - with the assistance from Vancouver
Police - raided a pot farm at a large home at *** Ravine Dr., just
down from A.J. Food Store.

Police say the house is worth around $500,000 and claim the residents,
a man and a woman, are part of a Vietnamese drug ring that owns houses
on Heritage Mountain.

PoMo Mayor Joe Trasolini, who chairs the PoMo Police Board, said the
crackdown on grow-ops in the city is worth the police department's
time and taxpayers' money.

"There's evidence that they can turn in to methamphetamine labs,"
Trasolini said.

In June, when PMPD began its crackdown in earnest, police arrested a
couple and placed their children into the care of B.C.'s ministry of
children and families after a grow-op was allegedly found in their
home in the 100-block of Cedarwood Drive.

And in October, at a house in the 100-block of Aspenwood Drive,
investigators found 500 marijuana plants and arrested a couple in
their 60s. An hour later, PMPD executed a second search warrant at a
home on Balsam Drive and located 800 plants.

PMPD also has discovered grow-ops in homes on Firview and Wildwood
Place, and on Ashwood and Parkside Drives.