A misdial on a cellular phone netted Ontario police more than they expected over the weekend.
Ontario Provincial Police in Havelock responded to a 911 call from a cellular phone Saturday morning to check on the well-being of the occupants of an Orange Street apartment.
Although it appears that the call was a so-called "pocket dial" police discovered some 27 marijuana plants, more than 150 grams of marijuana bud and other drug-related paraphernalia.
The seized drugs have an approximate street value of more than $27,000.
A 30-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, both of Havelock, have been charged with production of marijuana, possession for the purposes of trafficking and possession of marijuana.
The pair is scheduled to appear in a Peterborough court on Feb. 23.
The incident comes as police in Toronto planned to launch a campaign against pocket dialing in an effort to prevent unintentional calls to emergency operators.
Toronto's 911 workers received 107,000 pocket-dials and 116,000 misdialed calls last year.
