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They've shut down 450 different operations across Ontario so far this year and destroyed nearly 1.93,000 plants. The bottom line? If you suspect your neighbor is actually mm~ing a grow op, don't play amateur detective before you call the police. "If people have suspicions about it, don't go in and investigate, because you don't know what you're going to come across, but let our officers go in who are specially trained. Source: http://www.citynews.ea/news/n.ews_5562.aspx 1`darcotics task force had a busy year By BRAD SMITH Daily News Staff Writer Published: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:46 PM CST SISKIYOU COUNTY -Last year proved to be a very busy one for the Siskiyou County-wide Interagency Narcotics Task Force and its agents......"The numbexs are going up. Everything is increasing with the exception of heroin.. Humboldt County is having problems with heroin but not us. Not yet," Dunwoody said. According to Dunwoody, the task force, along with the SCSO's marijuana eradication team, has seen the abuse of the Proposition 215 medical marijuana recommendations. "It's unfortunate. lt's a problem that we'll have until the state takes a stand on the medical marijuana l.aw," Dunwoody said. "There are people who take advantage of the law for financial reasons, not medical. When you can get more than $3,000 for a pound of processed dope -1 would call that a big incentive." Along with marijuana, methamphetamine is the county's biggest drug problem. Source: ~://www.sisk~ot~daily.com/articles/2007/01 /24/news/doc45b7c473ee1~ 1 1)9369502.tx t 20-Month-Old Child Discovered In Alleged Marijuana Grow-Op Thursday .March 15, 2007 It's becoming a far too common occun•ence -marijuana grow-ops located in the middle of a neighborhood where no one suspected a thing. Now authorities have found two more of the alleged drug gardens....Both homes are in Brampton. and involve the combined seizure of nearly 250 plants and 95 pounds of freshly harvested pot, along with some cold cash. But the alleged pot find isn't what really disturbed the officers involved. One house contained something far more valuable and far more vulnerable - a 20-month-old child.......The parents of the youngster were among four people arrested. lt's the third time this week that officers have found kids in a place where danger is lurking......The child is now in the custody of the Children's Aid Society, But Burnham wishes there was more that could be done to protect the innocent. "I'tn appalled," she declares. "I wish there was a way that John Q. Public could spot these things faster."....There have been far too many instances of children found i.n grow-op or drug producing homes in the GTA this year. Here are just a few of them: January 6`~'; Cops raid. a home on London Road in Newmarket and find 350 pot plants in the basement and two kids, ages 10 and 12, living inside. Both are turned over to the Children's Aid Society (CAS) and two men are arrested.. 12 75A-107