17/01/2008 00:00:00
UK: Police find cannabis factory
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A CANNABIS factory has been discovered on a quiet suburban street in
Withington.
On Wednesday night at around 6.30pm the landlords found the tenants had
gone, leaving the remnants of a massive cultivation operation at the
Delaine Road property.
Police swooped on the semi-detached house at 7am the following morning
and discovered every room apart from the bathroom and front room had
been used as a makeshift greenhouse.
Electricity had been re-routed, holes had been cut in the ceiling, and a
massive amount of fans had been dumped in a room.
Police removed growing equipment from the scene and dumped a huge mound
of soil in the garden.
Thomas Cunningham, of Withington, told the MEN: "We recently spent
£65,000 on an extension to the house and let it to five people who told
us they were Chinese students.
"They didn't pay the rent last month so we came round to see what the
score was and found they had left, leaving behind quite a mess.
"It was a shock but I'm just glad nobody got injured. As a landlord
everybody assumes you just collect the money, but there can be a lot
more risk to it than that."
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1032583_police_find_cannabis_factory
Source:
http://www.ukcia.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=13176
Author:
Manchester Evening News via UKCIA
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