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Eight people have been charged after police dismantled an illicit cannabis grow operation on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and seized almost $3 million worth of cannabis.

The investigation began in August, when the Tyendinaga Police Service began looking into a production site allegedly involving a non-Indigenous criminal network, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said in a news release Wednesday.

A search warrant was executed at a property on the territory on Sept. 9 with assistance from several OPP units.

Police said officers seized approximately 5,560 cannabis plants valued at $2.78 million…

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