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By Andrew Seymour

OTTAWA — An antiwar activist who buried thousands of rounds of ammunition in a wooded area outside Ottawa has been placed on 12 months probation and banned from possessing weapons for five years.

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Claude Haridge was under police surveillance on May 27, 2010, when he drove a pickup truck to a forest off in Tay Valley Township and disappeared into the rows of red pine trees for about 50 minutes.

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After he emerged, police with a sniffer dog entered the forest and located three areas about 30 metres from the road where the pine needles were spread thin and the ground appeared to be recently disturbed.

The next day, Ontario Provincial Police identification officers dug up a metal box and three wooden crates containing more than 1,600 rounds of 7.62-millimetre ammunition manufactured for automatic and semi-automatic military rifles.

A green garbage bag containing 15 cans of black rifle powder was also discovered.