Police seized $2.9 million worth of marijuana plants in a bust of a major growing operation linked to the former head of Windsor & Essex County Crime Stoppers.

A total of 2,900 pot plants were seized in the bust, along with 41 kilograms of harvested marijuana, according to the OPP.

On Thursday, police arrested and charged Jon-Paul Fuller, who was the region's Crime Stoppers president. That same day, Crime Stoppers board members scheduled an emergency meeting where they terminated Fuller.

Former president Charlie Hotham has been reinstated as as president on an interim basis.

Fuller, 44, was president for just a few months before the OPP laid charges. Investigators executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a home at 1935 Fox Run Rd. in Leamington.

Fuller is charged with production of marijuana and possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Another 53-year-old Leamington man was also charged.

The charges have not been proven in court.