SLAIN COUPLE FACED WEED RAP: POLICE

A couple found dead in a field near Orillia were arrested earlier this
month for operating a marijuana growing operation in Mississauga.

Dung That Ton and his wife, Bong Thi Bui, both 44, were found dead in a
roadside field off Hollick Cr. in Oro-Medonte Twp. between Barrie and
Orillia at 9 a.m. Saturday.

Autopsies revealed Ton died of blunt force trauma and gunshot wounds to the
head. Bui died of blunt force trauma.

They last contacted family members Friday at 9 p.m., about 12 hours before
their bodies were found, OPP Det. Supt. Dennis Moore said.

'THEY WERE KILLED THERE'

He said the bodies were found in the field near a Honda CRV registered to Bui.

"We are convinced they were killed there," Moore said. Ton was well known
to Toronto Police. He was arrested in Projects Trade and Tugboat, two
separate sweeps of bawdy houses, and for the importation of Thai girls for
work as virtual slaves in brothels.

"The motive is a multiple choice," one officer said. "Was it the importing
of Thai girls, the bawdy houses or the grow?"

In Project Trade, police shut down 13 brothels in 1997 and 1998 in Toronto
and York Region when they targeted a pimping operation.

Thai women were brought to Canada and had to return $40,000 worth of tricks
to their pimps before they were allowed to keep any cash.

On May 20, both Ton and Bui were arrested with two other people when Peel
Regional Police raided a Stillriver Cr. house, in the Bristol and
Creditview Rds. area. Police found 405 plants worth about $450,000.