Peterborough County OPP Const. Iain McEwan stands by the site of a property north of Havelock where OPP raided a grow-op netting some 10,000 marijuana plants worth an estimated $10,000,000. (Clifford Skarstedt, QMI Agency)

HAVELOCK, Ont. - Police seized 10,000 marijuana plants from a large-scale grow-op in a rural home in central Ontario.

The estimated street value of the plants, ready for harvest, would have been about $10 million.

Police, who had been investigating the operation for about two weeks, stopped two men in their vehicle leaving the residence as they swooped in to raid the home.

Sheng Zhang, 41, of Millbrook, and Jin Sun Gou, 46, of Toronto, are both charged with production and possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.