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UK: Police raid home cannabis factory

Herts Essex News

Thursday 01 Jun 2006

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POLICE discovered a cannabis factory when they raided a house in
Bishop's Stortford yesterday (Wednesday, 31 May).

All three floors of the terraced building in Cavell Drive were a jungle
of hundreds of flourishing cannabis plants, some reaching up to waist
height, and cultivation equipment.

There were also remnants of plants already harvested with cut leaves
littering the floor and plastic flowerpots containing just earth and
severed stalks.

Powerful lights hung precariously from a tangle of electric cables -
diverted from the mains - strung across the ceilings and throughout the
house.

Insulating material was pinned to the walls, a network of ventilation
pipes led through the roof timbers, and net curtains backed by sheets of
opaque plastic hid the operation from prying eyes.

In 12 months, a house of this size could produce up to a staggering
£250,000 worth of cannabis, said a police expert.

The raid was part of the highly successful Herts police Operation Miss
which has hit about 10 cannabis factories across the county in the past
two months.

Around 20 officers were involved in the 9.25am raid. Police, using
specialist equipment, forced the door and arrested a woman in her 20s in
an upstairs room.

A man in his late 20s or early 30s was arrested later at another
address. Both people, who are not believed to be related, are foreign
nationals.

Sgt Alan Feary, police search adviser, said: "On the ground floor, we
have got the nursery with all the young plants and they go up in stages
of growth as you go up through the different floors of the house."

Further police raids were expected to be carried out in both Herts and
Essex after the Observer went to press.

Insp Paul Lawrence, commander of Bishop's Stortford police, said: "This
is the work of organised criminal enterprises where entire addresses are
converted into cannabis growing factories.

"The cash from the sale of the product is used by criminal gangs and
supports the financing of major crime world wide."

 

 

 

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