19/04/2007 16:00:00
UK: Police Bust 25,000 Pound-a-Year Drugs Factory
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Police have busted a major cannabis factory in Stoke-on-Trent.
They say the discovery in a house at Alberta Street, Dresden, dwarfs
others made the city in recent months.
One man - believed to be in his late 20s early 30s - was arrested and
taken away for questioning following the raid, at 9.05am.
The operation was pre-planned and involved detectives from
Stoke-on-Trent CID.
Hundreds of cannabis plants were found, filling every room in the large
Victorian terraced house and nestling amid a sophisticated lighting and
feeding system.
Police say the class C drugs would have yielded at least £40,000 if sold
on the streets - and as a rolling operation would have been worth
£250,000 a year.
A spokesman for Stoke-on-Trent Police Division said: "This is the ninth
address we've raided since January and is part of an ongoing operation
to tackle the supply of drugs in the city."
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Source:
http://www.ukcia.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=12465
Author:
The Sentinel: Stoke via UKCIA
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