More than $122 million worth of marijuana has been seized from illegal grow-op on a First Nations reserve in Eastern Ontario that was allegedly being operated by an organized criminal network.

The OPP says three firearms were also seized during a six-month investigation – and 10 people have been charged, six of whom are not members of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory community.

“In April 2025, the Tyendinaga Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB) began an investigation into illicit cannabis production sites controlled by non-Indigenous organized criminal networks, aided by a limited number of community members,” the OPP said in a statement released Friday.

“The majority of the profits from these operations were not invested in or utiliz

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