8,000 pot cookies seized after White Rock home invasion

White Rock Mounties seized 8,000 home-baked cookies thought to contain marijuana on Thursday after responding to a report of an assault at a home by two would-be robbers.

The 22-year-old victim said he came home just before noon to find two men in the middle of a theft. One of them hit him on the head with a crow bar, but the resident was able to fend both men off.

Nearby, Earl Marriott high school was placed under lockdown.

Later in the evening police executed a search warrant on the home and seized an undisclosed amount of pot and 8,000 cookies.

The 22-year-old was arrested, along with two women, ages 20 and 54 years old. They are all charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.

The two robbery suspects were described as white, wearing black hooded sweaters with white designs. One was about six feet tall and wearing a black baseball hat, and the other was about five feet seven inches tall. They were last seen running north across 16th Avenue into Surrey.