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UK: Five arrests follow discovery of cannabis plants

Portsmouth News

Thursday 14 Dec 2006

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Police today carried out an early-morning raid on a suspected cannabis
factory.
Officers swooped on the semi-detached house in Festing Grove, Southsea,
at 7am and arrested five people.

They found the basement of the four-bedroom home had been turned into a
cannabis factory, with about 30 plants of the class-C drug, as well as
powerful lighting and ventilation equipment to create indoor growing
conditions.

Suspicions were first aroused after the electricity company reported a
surge in power use at the property.

Officers from the Eastney's neighbourhood policing team involved in the
raid were this morning outside the property informing passers-by that a
drugs raid had taken place at the house.

Officers said they had received no reports from residents about a drugs
factory but wanted to make it clear to those living in the area that it
would not be tolerated.

PC Karl Warner said: 'It shows people we are doing this sort of thing.

'We are not going to let people get away with it.'

Neighbour Trudy Burton, 40, said: 'It is worrying and shocking,
particularly if it is an up-and-coming industry in the area. I've seen
people going to and from the house and they look hippie types.'

Ann Hamilton, 64, said: 'There are strange characters that go in and out
of there and they have very weird bonfires at night with black acrid
smoke that fills the house for hours afterwards.

'They have a camper van outside and sometimes people sleep in the van.

'I don't like it being nearby, obviously.'

There have also been cannabis finds at other houses across the area,
including one at Winter Road, Southsea, last week when police recovered
100 plants with a street value of up to £2,000.

Police are not linking the latest find with earlier raids at this time,
and believe it could have been a solo operation rather than one linked
to organised crime gangs.
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