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Angler presumed drowned in Fraser Friend tried to save him but needed saving himself BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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imported into the country and purchased by consumers here locally,” he said. “This is probably the first production of its kind that I have seen in British Columbia, if not one of the first in Canada itself.” Goddard said that the scale of the operation would have required the participation of more than just the two men arrested at the field.
Delta fisherman is presumed dead after he fell into the Fraser River at a popular access point just off of Old Orchard Road. The 33-year-old man was fishing Tuesday afternoon when he slipped from the rocks and fell into the river. A friend jumped into the river to help, but had to be saved himself. Lang’s Fishing Adventures guides Lang Nguyen and Matt Pace were heading upriver to meet a friend when a fellow boater waved them down and pointed out the wouldbe rescuer on the other side of the river. “I could see hands flopping and splashEB IRST i n g ,” N g u y e n See video at told freelance chilliwacktimes.com videographer Wa y n e P r i c e . The two guides managed to pull the man onto their boat. Pace said the man had been in the water for about 10 minutes and was so weak upon being rescued that he could barely get in the boat. But far from being happy that he was rescued, the man was downcast. “I couldn’t explain his face, so sad; he said ‘my buddy is dead,” Nguyen told Price.
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RCMP drug officers tally up opium poppy plants to try and determine the size of a huge poppy grow-op found Monday.
Poppy bust makes history
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ounties raided a seven-acre field of opium poppies in Chilliwack Monday in the largest such bust in Canadian history. Police estimate that more than 60,000 plants were growing in the field, which was leased from a local farmer. Two men, a 31year-old Abbotsford man and a 24-year-old Mission man, were arrested and will likely face charges of production of a controlled substance and possession for the
Police discover 60,000 opium poppies on seven-acre farmer’s field in Chilliwack
land. Police said they could not purpose of trafficking. reliably speak to the street While opium can be value of the drug. used to produce heroin, Staff Sgt. Dave Goddard, police believe the plants of the RCMP’s federal drug were grown to produce enforcement branch, said doda, a powder that is that while doda use is on combined with tea or hot EB IRST the rise in Canada, this water. The drink produces See video at bust may be the first of its a quick high and a sense of well-being and is popu- chilliwacktimes.com kind in British Columbia. “We’re seeing more and lar with some South Asian communities in the Lower Main- more cases where doda is being
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