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UK: Police dismantle Terrington St Clement cannabis factory Victoria Fear Lynn News Monday 05 Mar 2012 And they are on the trail of members of a suspected drugs gang who rented a large farm barn within full view of one of the area’s busiest roads. Thousands of motorists using the A17 just west of Lynn would have thought nothing of the typically-rural barn with its large straw bales outside. But inside, as I saw for myself, it is a mass of MDF partitions, electric cabling and reflective sheeting...and it housed more than £100,000 worth of growing cannabis plants. Police estimate there were upwards of 1,000 plants being cultivated in the former grain store in Station Road, Terrington St Clement It was discovered on Thursday after police were called to the barn, which had been rented for some time. Neighbours described how a van would be driven inside the barn and then the doors would always be shut behind it. A local resident said: "You never saw them working outside, but it has been very cold and you didn't think that was suspicious." The barn is only a few metres from the main road and this weekend police were questioning people who live and work nearby as to whether they saw any suspicious activity. Inside the factory, the rooms are dominated by a large extraction unit to regulate heat and humidity. An electricity meter had been removed from a wall by police and was wrapped in an evidence bag. Strip lighting hung from the ceiling and the air was thick and heady with the distinctive smell of cannabis. As the picture show, this was a highly professional operation. One of the questions police are trying to answer is just how long the factory has been in operation and whether any drugs have been sold on the black market - and if so, how much. Police spent much of the weekend in the barn, gathering evidence from the 12 separate growing chambers they discovered there. They estimated the cost of setting up the factory ran to "tens of thousands of pounds". Once the evidence-gathering process is finished, police say the cannabis plants will be destroyed. http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/latest-news/police-dismantle-terrington-st-clement-cannabis-factory-1-3589372
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