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Regional Police Drug Squad Make Arrests And Seize $6,000,000 Plus In Pot
Waterloo Regional Police have charged three local men in connection with a four month investigation into an alleged marihuana production and distribution operation.
The investigation by members of the Strategic and Tactical Services Division Drug Branch, with assistance from the Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy Team and Emergency Response Unit, resulted in search warrants being conducted on June 2, 2011 in Kitchener , Cambridge and North Dumfries Township . A subsequent warrant was executed on June 3, 2011 in Blandford-Blenheim Township with the assistance of the Ontario Provincial Police Drug Enforcement Unit.
George Gobran, 40 years of Kitchener , Kenneth Michael Meaney, 49 years of Cambridge and Martin Kenneth Hackborn, 48 years of North Dumfries Township were arrested without incident on June 2, 2011. The three were charged with Production of a Controlled Substance and Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking. They were held for an appearance in the Ontario Court of Justice in Kitchener and are remanded in custody.
In connection with this investigation, Police seized 6,114 marihuana plants; 277 pounds of packaged marihuana and 480 grams of cannabis resin which investigators estimate have a street value of approximately $6,676,950. Also seized was, approximately $50,000 in equipment, 10 long guns and ammunition, $31,227 cash, seven vehicles and a paraglider.
The Kitchener warrants were executed at a commercial building on Shoemaker Street and at a residence on Knox Crescent in Kitchener . In Cambridge , police searched two storage lockers on Industrial Road and a residence on Pineview Crescent . Items were also seized during a warrant at a barn and a residence on Sprague’s Road in North Dumfries Township as well as a barn and residence in Blandford-Blenheim Township .
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