Massive Ontario pot grow-op had live-in staff, global expansion plans: RCMP [Video]

Six people are facing charges after a large-scale cannabis network with an estimated annual value of more than $16 million was shuttered by the RCMP.

Canada’s federal policing agency said in a news release Thursday that its Ontario division had been investigating the operation, which was recently shut down, for more than two years.

The RCMP said it has seized and destroyed roughly 17,000 cannabis plants from the network, which was operating three large-scale illegal grow sites.

“Each of the sites were staffed with full-time live-in workers, none of whom have legal status to work and grow cannabis in Canada,” the RCMP said in the release.

“The criminal network was also linked to the operation of two other illicit cannabis production sites in Ontario, which were dismantled by the OPP and the Toronto Police Service.”

The RCMP estimated the operation could’ve had an annual production value of more than $16 million. …