Bellatrix

Pot Found Growing On Riverview Hospital Site

Chris Johnson | Vancouver Sun | 23 Aug 2004

COQUITLAM - Riverview Hospital has always had drugs to mellow out mental patients. But not this kind.

On Saturday morning, Coquitlam RCMP seized 500 marijuana plants and equipment from the "Crease Unit," a building no longer used by the hospital. Const. Jeff Levine said the growing operation, which was discovered in an attic by a security guard, appears to have been professionally run and was hooked up to a power plant on the Riverview site.

Bellatrix; What makes a grow-op look "professional" to a cop - that it isn't on fire? I guess this means that someone had to stumble upon it - usually the only way the RCMP or the VPD find ANYTHING around here is if its covered in powdered sugar.

Police said the marijuana had been in the hospital building for at least three months. Whoever maintained the plants would have had to go through four locked doors and sneak past 24-hour security patrols regularly, said Levine.

Bellatrix; surprising that it was set up at all under these circumstances? Read on....

The operation included large, expensive industrial equipment that would have taken several people to move, he added. Movie crews have had access to the building and a number of people may have had keys, said Levine. Rented out by the B.C. Building Corporation, the building is not far from the quarters of about 500 mental patients.

Bellatrix; oh, there are a lot more than just 500 of us in the Greater Vancouver area! It's interesting to me that someone would have set all of this up only to be snitched out by a nosy security guard. What are the chances that someone on the inside got ticked off and decided to rat out his partners?

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