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Blue skies, birds singing, a farmer on his tractor, and the wind rustling hundreds of lush marijuana plants -- those are some of the images captured by amateur video at what has been called the largest grow-op in Saskatchewan history.
On Thursday, jurors at the Regina trial for six men accused of cultivating marijuana watched about half of a three-hour DVD compiled from video discs found during an RCMP search on the Pasqua First Nation in 2005.
The images show the construction of plots and greenhouses, the care and maintenance of the plants, and the daily activities at the grow operation, including a campfire and cook shack next to a teepee. It was inside the teepee that RCMP found the video discs after three men fled.
For the most part, the only sound on the DVD is the wind whipping up the black tarps that form the greenhouses, but that's occasionally punctuated by reggae and rap music and the rare voice.
"Definitely a bug spray day," one person off-camera is heard to utter, followed by slap. In another scene showing how each plant was individually watered and fertilized through a series of pipes, someone comments, "nice, nice." While another time, as the camera pans knee deep into plants, a voice comments on how big they've gotten.
The neat rows of marijuana plants are kept relatively weed free by a man seen cutting around them with a grass trimmer.
The discovery of more than 6,000 plants at that site on Aug. 21, 2005 led to the arrests of Lawrence Hubert Agecoutay, 52, Chester Fernand Girard, 59, Nelson Edward Northwood, 58, Jack Allan Northwood, 55, Joseph Clayton Agecoutay, 47, and Robert Stanley Agecoutay, 48.
The prosecution intends to show the men had plans to share a potential $3-million profit from the operation.
A document seized from Lawrence Agecoutay's house in Regina contains dollar figures and measurements. On the back page, someone has written, "Larry Questions Who will control the money?"
Another paper found on the kitchen table reads "Loud Blasting Boy" next to the name "Nelson."
Retired RCMP corporal Ed Rodonets, who seized those documents, also took the jury through a booklet of 90 photographs, mostly showing the site on the Pasqua First Nation, near the homes of Robert and Joseph Agecoutay.
A potted pot plant sits out front of the residence of Robert Agecoutay. Inside his home, dried pot plants were found hanging in closets. Down a trail, officers discovered eight large greenhouses == constructed out of tarps, boards and posts -- and four marijuana plots. Rodonets said most of the plants in the greenhouses were three to four feet in height.
The trial continues Friday.
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderp...d=7d72b41e-7760-46fa-bd8c-44dfaef016e5&k=6800
PS: I would like to get my hands on that dvd.
On Thursday, jurors at the Regina trial for six men accused of cultivating marijuana watched about half of a three-hour DVD compiled from video discs found during an RCMP search on the Pasqua First Nation in 2005.
The images show the construction of plots and greenhouses, the care and maintenance of the plants, and the daily activities at the grow operation, including a campfire and cook shack next to a teepee. It was inside the teepee that RCMP found the video discs after three men fled.
For the most part, the only sound on the DVD is the wind whipping up the black tarps that form the greenhouses, but that's occasionally punctuated by reggae and rap music and the rare voice.
"Definitely a bug spray day," one person off-camera is heard to utter, followed by slap. In another scene showing how each plant was individually watered and fertilized through a series of pipes, someone comments, "nice, nice." While another time, as the camera pans knee deep into plants, a voice comments on how big they've gotten.
The neat rows of marijuana plants are kept relatively weed free by a man seen cutting around them with a grass trimmer.
The discovery of more than 6,000 plants at that site on Aug. 21, 2005 led to the arrests of Lawrence Hubert Agecoutay, 52, Chester Fernand Girard, 59, Nelson Edward Northwood, 58, Jack Allan Northwood, 55, Joseph Clayton Agecoutay, 47, and Robert Stanley Agecoutay, 48.
The prosecution intends to show the men had plans to share a potential $3-million profit from the operation.
A document seized from Lawrence Agecoutay's house in Regina contains dollar figures and measurements. On the back page, someone has written, "Larry Questions Who will control the money?"
Another paper found on the kitchen table reads "Loud Blasting Boy" next to the name "Nelson."
Retired RCMP corporal Ed Rodonets, who seized those documents, also took the jury through a booklet of 90 photographs, mostly showing the site on the Pasqua First Nation, near the homes of Robert and Joseph Agecoutay.
A potted pot plant sits out front of the residence of Robert Agecoutay. Inside his home, dried pot plants were found hanging in closets. Down a trail, officers discovered eight large greenhouses == constructed out of tarps, boards and posts -- and four marijuana plots. Rodonets said most of the plants in the greenhouses were three to four feet in height.
The trial continues Friday.
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderp...d=7d72b41e-7760-46fa-bd8c-44dfaef016e5&k=6800
PS: I would like to get my hands on that dvd.
