05/06/2007 00:00:00
UK: Yet Another pot factory - and this one's the biggest yet
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ANOTHER cannabis factory has been discovered in a Huddersfield house -
and it's the biggest ever found in the town.
It means cannabis cultivation in Huddersfield has made the town a
hotspot for this type of crime.
Police on routine patrol made the astonishing find in Wasp Nest Road,
Fartown, early yesterday morning when they were visiting the house as
part of another investigation.
They found 1,000 cannabis plants in various stages of growth and with a
street value of £300,000 in the empty three-storey property.
The electricity supply in the house had been tampered with to provide
heat for the plants.
Just last month firefighters at a property in Bradford Road, Hillhouse,
discovered another cannabis factory - the sixth in the town so far this
year.
The find in Fartown is bigger than Huddersfield's largest-ever haul - in
February - when hundreds of cannabis plants with a street value of
£250,000 were discovered in St Peter's Street in the town centre.
Det Sgt Anil Shuklar, of Kirklees District Drugs Team, said: "There has
been a concerted effort within the division over the past few months
targeting cannabis growing. But obviously there are some coincidental
finds as well, such as this.
"We have had several significant finds in the Huddersfield area which
have hit the headlines. It is interesting to suggest the area is a bit
of a hotspot.
"I know other divisions, such as Bradford, have also had some big finds.
It is certainly something we will be looking into. There is a lot of
private rented accommodation in the town because of its growing student
population."
Several people have been arrested in connection with the incidents, many
of them Vietnamese.
Source:
http://www.ukcia.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=12588
Author:
Huddersfield Daily Examiner via UKCIA
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