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UK: Yet Another pot factory - and this one's the biggest yet
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Tuesday 05 Jun 2007 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.
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