GROW-OP MAN BUSTED AFTER TAUNTING POLICE

The Abbotsford man who practically dared police on TV to raid his marijuana
grow-op got what he asked for Friday.

Abbotsford police and Emergency Response Team members busted a major
grow-op at a Bradner Road property apparently owned by well-known marijuana
activist Tim Felger, confiscating thousands of plants.

Police surrounded the rural property and could be seen from the road at the
end of a long driveway outside a house and several large outbuildings.

Police arrested three men, one of them the owner of the property,
according to Abbotsford police Const. Shinder Kirk.

Last week Felger - the B.C. Marijuana Party's mayoral candidate in last
year's Abbotsford civic elections - led a TV news crew around a grow-op
that he boasted had 10,000 plants.

"We're probably the biggest grow-op in Canada," Felger told a CBC news
reporter in a segment from The National about proposed changes to Canada's
marijuana laws.

The reporter asked Felger if he wasn't concerned that the police would come
after him.

"No, they don't scare me," Felger told her. "The police are mostly wasting
their time and it's time they realized it, you know? Leave me alone."
Felger further taunted police with signs prominently placed on his
property. Several of them read: "Randy White and George Ferguson legalize
marijuana now before the Abby Police shoot an innocent."

White is the MP for Langley-Abbotsford and Ferguson the former mayor
against whom Felger ran unsuccessfully. Another sign on the property reads:
"Vote Tim Felger, Member of Parliament."

Kirk couldn't estimate the value of the pot found on the property.

"I don't know the grade and quality," he said. "It's a significant bust.
It's the second grow-op dismantled in the last year at these premises."

The three men arrested were taken into custody away from the property and
without incident and later set free on bail, Kirk said.

No names can be released until charges are processed, he said.