Running a 950-plant marijuana grow-op near Oliver will cost a man the mandatory minimum of two years in jail.

A police expert testified at a trial in B.C. Supreme Court that bud from the operation headed by 36-year-old Blaine Alfred Harvey Vickers of Oliver could have fetched up to $400,000.

Vickers was sentenced to the mandatory minimum of two years on February 20 after being convicted for production of a controlled substance, possession for the purpose of trafficking and fraudulent consumption of electricity in 2013

The asserted value of the 950-plant grow operation near Willowbrook was estimated to be between $110,000 and $400,000. The operation discovered by RCMP was powered illegally by a meter bypass.

Vickers has a previous criminal record having been convicted for possession for the purpose of trafficking in 2003.