Five people face charges following a series of police raids on unsanctioned pot shops in London and the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation.
Five people face charges following a series of police raids on unsanctioned pot shops in London and the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation.
The Ontario Provincial Police-led cannabis enforcement team launched an investigation in June into the illegal sale of cannabis at a dispensary on Chippewas territory and at two London stores, operating under the name Spirit River, that weren’t licensed by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the province’s pot regulator, the OPP said.
Police raided the London locations – one in a trailer at 72 Wellington St., the other a storefront at 685 Richmond St. – and the Chippewas store on Aug. 20, seizing $350,000 worth of cannabis products, $9,000 in contraband tobacco, $2,500 of magic mushrooms, $11,000 cash and an extraction press, police said.
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