At 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 15, Grand Forks RCMP executed a search warrant on a residence on Sleepy Hollow Road in Grand Forks.
The search yielded 437 marijuana plants and a hydro bypass was discovered.
Grand Forks RCMP’s Staff Sgt. Jim Harrison said two Grand Forks residents were arrested – a 34-year-old female and a 31-year-old male.
“Both are facing charges of theft of hydro, because they found a hydro bypass associated to the marijuana grow-operation, as well as production of marijuana and possession for the purposes of trafficking,” Harrison said.
“The male was also arrested in an unrelated investigation for shoplifting and both were released and investigation is still going on and charges are pending.”
Jan. 16 At 12:19 a.m., there was a single vehicle rollover crash on Spencer Hill.
A 2009 International seven-tonne moving truck lost control on slippery road conditions and rolled over.
The driver, a 46-year-old West Kelowna male, and his passenger, a 50-year-old male from Terrace, B.C., were uninjured but there was substantial damage to the vehicle, say RCMP.
Later in the day, at 4:38 p.m., police received a report of a boulder on the road at Highway 3 near the Texas Point turnoff – RCMP say the debris rolled down the hill.
Emcon attended the scene to remove the boulder while RCMP provided assistance with traffic control.
Harrison said there was a subsequent incident of debris sliding onto the road between Christina Lake and Grand Forks.
“Motorists are advised to keep their eyes open with the recent thaw that we’ve had. Certainly the avalanche danger and the danger of landslides and rocks and things coming off our steeper areas near the highway are real dangers,” he said.
“When you get debris on the road like that, if you hit that at 100 kilometres an hour, there’s going to be some really bad things happening.”