Pubdate: Wed, 14 Jan 2004
Source: Vankleek Hill Review, The (CN ON)
Copyright: 2004 The Vankleek Hill Review
Contact:  http://www.thereview.on.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2419

POT? WHAT TO DO . . .

ST-EUGENE - When a Plantagenet woman went berry picking last year, she came 
across an illegal crop -- a marijuana plot.

"We called the police, but there was no satisfactory resolution," her 
husband said at a meeting on all-terrain vehicles last Wednesday in 
St-Eugene. "Two ladies in a car arrived but they didn't want to get out."

Prescott County Ontario Provincial Police detachment commander Inspector 
Joffre Dupuis conceded, "It is a difficult situation to control and 
enforce," adding that police are short on resources. "We are woefully 
equipped," he told the meeting, relating that the detachment is hoping to 
acquire two all-terrain vehicles. "We can't be everywhere all the time."

Citizens who come across pot-growing operations should be wary of booby 
traps. "And in some cases, razor blades have been hidden in the stalks so 
officers have cut their hands when they tried to remove the plants," said 
Dupuis. A special drug eradication unit handles most such seizures. "Call 
us. If you can, get a licence plate number," suggested Dupuis.
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