Highway 401 is becoming the thoroughfare of choice for most drug traffickers, police say. Shi Jun Lu of Ottawa and Khamsouriya Vongviset of Nepean found that out when they were arrested and charged with possession of $900,000 worth of marijuana last Saturday. They were pulled over by the OPP for driving 140 kilometres per hour. When police opened the trunk to investigate a smell coming from the car, they found 85 pounds of marijuana in half-pound denominations packaged in plastic bags. [continues 214 words]
Business's Boiler Doubles As Pot Incinerator Fifty years from now, when members of the Gibbard family tell their grandchildren the long history of their family business, one wonders if they'll include this particular tidbit. For at least the last 20 years, the boiler at the Gibbard furniture factory has been doubling as a drug incinerator. The OPP detachment in Napanee, where the Gibbard furniture store has been operating for the last 172 years, uses the facility - at no charge from the Gibbards - to dispose of seized narcotics, mainly cocaine and marijuana. [continues 509 words]
