A Surrey man is facing charges after the Delta Police drug squad raided the Jojo Flowers shop on Scott Road and seized 3,600 opium poppy pods.

Police have recommended charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking a controlled substance against the 47-year-old man, whose name has not yet been released.

The raid happened in the 9400-block of Scott Road on Aug. 13. Delta police Sgt. Sharlene Brooks said police didn't reveal the results of the search until now because they didn't want to compromise other investigations.

"We had a couple of other things we were working on," she said.

Opium poppy flowers are dried and ground into powder, which contains morphine and codeine, and then added to tea. Police seized six kilograms of the powder, 15 kilograms of opium poppy seeds, a grinding machine, scales, a machete and a Sig Sauer replica pellet handgun, as well as cash.

Brooks said police have not established any link between this and the huge opium poppy seizure in Chilliwack on Aug. 23. Some 60,000 plants were found in a field there, marking the largest opium poppy seizure in Canada.