Thuan Van Ha

Thuan Van Ha, 42, was sentenced in October to serve two years less a day in the community for convictions of drug production and possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
Ha was placed on electronic monitoring for the first eight months of the conditional sentence.
The Crown had asked for 18 months in jail.
Ha was charged after police found about 250 marijuana plants at various stages of growth inside his home on the 900 block of Rae Street.
On Thursday, agent for the federal Crown, Doug Curliss, argued the sentencing judge erred in imposing the community-based sentence by not taking the circumstances of the case, nor case law, into full consideration.
Curliss said Ha accrued a gambling debt and, despite making good money as a welder, decided the best way to deal with the debt was by starting a grow op. As part of that grow op, Ha caused damage to his house and stole electricity from SaskPower, Curliss said.
In asking for the court to consider overturning the sentence, Curliss told Justices William Vancise, Gene Anne Smith and Darla Hunter that grow ops are a serious problem in the community, with many growers seeing it as "quick and easy money."