Police raid busts cannabis factory
Thursday 27th November 2008, 12:15PM GMT.
More than 70 cannabis plants were found when police raided a drugs “factory” in Market Drayton. The plants were found in a hydroponic nursery housed at the back of Stafford Street.
A team of six officers led by Sergeant Tony Merrick swooped on the out buildings on Tuesday and carried out a search of the premises.
Sergeant Merrick said the premises were unoccupied at the time and although no arrests had yet been made, police inquiries are continuing.
He said: “In each of the two outbuildings there was a hydroponic set up.”
A total of 74 cannabis plants were recovered – 48 seedlings and 26 large mature plants.
There was also a large amount of cannabis drying out on net shelving and in nets suspended from the roof.
Samples will be sent for laboratory analysis and the rest costed and destroyed.
Councillor Rob Bentley, Market Drayton’s mayor, today welcomed the bust.
He said: “The trouble drugs can cause is immense so anything which takes the drugs, or the people that produce and sell them, off the streets has to be good news for the town.”
The find is the latest in a series of recent drug successes for police across Shropshire.
They have discovered cannabis nurseries at two other locations – near Shawbury and in Market Drayton.
Last month detectives seized more than 1,800 cannabis plants valued at £250,000 at a unit at Stafford Park, Telford.
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