Pot-Growing Dad Busted After Baby Calls 911

Mounties led to operation by toddler playing with phone
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 22, 2009 4:38 AM CST
Pot-Growing Dad Busted After Baby Calls 911
Police say that marijuana operations in houses with small children are especially concerning because of the risk of fire and of health hazards caused by condensation.   (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

Mounties responding to an aborted 911 call from a Vancouver home discovered a cute baby playing with a cordless phone upstairs—and 500 marijuana plants downstairs, the Globe & Mail reports. The boy's pop was arrested and the baby was returned to his mom, who is separated from the father and had dropped off the 11-month-old earlier in the day.
(More 911 call stories.)

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