News (Media Awareness Project) - CN ON: Probe Seeks Answers In Wrongful Bust |
| Title: | CN ON: Probe Seeks Answers In Wrongful Bust |
| Published On: | 2002-07-30 |
| Source: | Cambridge Reporter, The (CN ON) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-22 21:47:14 |
PROBE SEEKS ANSWERS IN WRONGFUL BUST
As Fung Han and Shiu Ng work to repair the damage done to their door and
their pride, police and hydro investigators are trying to figure out what
went so wrong.
Police officers broke down the front door of the Ngs' Hilborn Avenue home
in Cambridge last Wednesday morning as Fung Han sat eating her breakfast.
Officers put her hands behind her back and told her she was under arrest
for theft of hydro.
Police and hydro investigators believed the family was hiding a marijuana
grow operation inside. But when they searched the home, they found nothing.
Now, they are trying to figure out what went wrong in their investigation.
Last week Cambridge and North Dumfries Hydro said they were not the
initiators in this case and that police usually contact them for assistance.
However, the police warrant used to carry out the search showed that the
hydro company contacted police on two occasions.
On July 19, hydro officials told police they had concerns that hydro was
being tampered with at the residence. Then again on July 23, the hydro
company contacted police and told them a diversion meter, which measures
the flow of electricity to the house before it goes through the hydro
meter, was set up. They told police the diversion meter indicated theft of
hydro.
A warrant was obtained and a search completed.
"Apparently there never was and there never has been a marijuana grow
operation," in the home, said Staff Sergeant Brent Thomlison. "We initiated
this because hydro called us."
Barb Shortreed, communications officer with Cambridge and North Dumfries
Hydro, said an internal investigation revealed that hydro officials did
contact police in this case. She said a full investigation has been
launched to determine "what caused the abnormality," in the home's hydro
reading.
The data recorded from the meter was "very similar to every other proven
diversion we have identified," she said.
"There are several factors that we need to identify," she added. "We could
not comment as to what the reason is."
As Fung Han and Shiu Ng work to repair the damage done to their door and
their pride, police and hydro investigators are trying to figure out what
went so wrong.
Police officers broke down the front door of the Ngs' Hilborn Avenue home
in Cambridge last Wednesday morning as Fung Han sat eating her breakfast.
Officers put her hands behind her back and told her she was under arrest
for theft of hydro.
Police and hydro investigators believed the family was hiding a marijuana
grow operation inside. But when they searched the home, they found nothing.
Now, they are trying to figure out what went wrong in their investigation.
Last week Cambridge and North Dumfries Hydro said they were not the
initiators in this case and that police usually contact them for assistance.
However, the police warrant used to carry out the search showed that the
hydro company contacted police on two occasions.
On July 19, hydro officials told police they had concerns that hydro was
being tampered with at the residence. Then again on July 23, the hydro
company contacted police and told them a diversion meter, which measures
the flow of electricity to the house before it goes through the hydro
meter, was set up. They told police the diversion meter indicated theft of
hydro.
A warrant was obtained and a search completed.
"Apparently there never was and there never has been a marijuana grow
operation," in the home, said Staff Sergeant Brent Thomlison. "We initiated
this because hydro called us."
Barb Shortreed, communications officer with Cambridge and North Dumfries
Hydro, said an internal investigation revealed that hydro officials did
contact police in this case. She said a full investigation has been
launched to determine "what caused the abnormality," in the home's hydro
reading.
The data recorded from the meter was "very similar to every other proven
diversion we have identified," she said.
"There are several factors that we need to identify," she added. "We could
not comment as to what the reason is."
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