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UK: Bradford man who set up cannabis factory jailed

Bradford Telegraph and Argus

Tuesday 24 Jul 2012

A man who had fallen on hard times tried to get out of financial difficulties by setting up a cannabis factory, a Court heard.

A police raid at an address linked to Andrew Carroll uncovered a full hydroponic system with heating, lighting and irrigation, and 29 cannabis plants, Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday. The plants had a street value of £9,600. Police also discovered six live handgun bullets on the mantelpiece of the house in Larch Hill, Low Moor , Bradford.

In a simultaneous 8am raid in June last year at the home of Carroll’s friend Lee Wong, in Royds Hall Avenue, Odsal , Bradford, police discovered 693 grammes of cannabis, with a street value of £5,940. A further 55 grammes of the drug was found in a carrier bag at the property. Wong, 37, accepted being the effective custodian of some of the drugs for his friend.

Tom Rushbrooke, solicitor advocate for Carroll, also 37, said his client had lost his job, got into financial difficulties and thought growing cannabis to make money was a way to resolve his problems. Mr Rushbrooke said Carroll had found the bullets in a car at a scrap yard.

Wongs barrister, Andrew Dallas, said Wong, who had been jailed for drugs offences in 2004, had since sorted out his life, been in work and was free of drugs.

Wong pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis with intent to supply his co-defendant. He was given a 12-month community order, with 150 hours' unpaid work, and ordered to pay £600 costs.

Carroll, of Ullswater Drive, Woodside, Bradford, pleaded guilty to producing cannabis, possessing it with intent to supply and possessing ammunition without a firearms certificate. He was jailed for 12 months for the drugs offences and a consecutive three months for the firearms offence.

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/9834984.Bradford_man_who_set_up_cannabis_factory_jailed/

 

 

 

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