MEDICAL MARIJUANA GROW TARGETED

One Arrested in Connection With Home Invasion in East Chilliwack On
Monday

One man is under arrest, but at least two others are at large, after
the home invasion of a licensed medical marijuana grower early Monday
morning.

Mounties say they received a report of a home invasion in East
Chilliwack just after 3 a.m. Monday.

Police found two vehicles attempting to flee and used a spike belt to
disable one of the cars, a grey 2005 Acura TL four-door sedan.
Officers were able to arrest the 25-year-old driver but the passenger
fled on foot. Although he tore one of the legs off his black sweat
pants, he was able to evade police and their dogs.

Mounties say the other vehicle, a black four-door sedan that may have
been an Acura Integra, attempted to ram police cruisers before leaving
at a high rate of speed. It was not pursued and neither it nor its
occupants have been located.

The victim of the robbery was unhurt. The marijuana plants were grown
in an outbuilding on the property, according to police, who have not
yet determined the number of plants being grown by the victim, how
many were permitted, nor how many were stolen.

But they are using the opportunity to outline their concerns with
legal medical marijuana growers.

"In police experience, medicinal marihuana grow ops have the same
ramifications to public safety as illegal grow ops do," said RCMP
spokesperson Cpl. Tammy Hollingsworth. These grow ops have been, and
continue to be, targets of attacks, often involving violence."