Police have dismantled 18 marijuana growing operations they claim were connected to one Toronto store.
Authorities arrested three people in connection to the web of grow-ops and seized about 8,000 pot plants worth an estimated $8 million. There were 18 illegal drug growing outfits in total which investigators allege were all connected to a Toronto business that sold equipment needed to cultivate marijuana indoors.
An anonymous tipster told York Regional Police about the grow-ops and the business allegedly connected to all of the illegal outfits - a store called Tropical Distribution at 135 Ormont Rd. The investigation started back in May of 2006.
Police claim the owners of the store were facilitating the people running the grow-ops.
Search warrants were executed at the 18 drug-growing outfits littered across the GTA and last Thursday police also searched Tropical Distribution and a home in Newmarket and arrested three people.
Van Duong LE, 41, of Newmarket, Tu Cam LAM, 29, of Newmarket, and Dai Tho LE, 28, of Mississauga are all facing several charges. They're scheduled to appear in a Newmarket court on May 1.
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