Police arrest two men at Telford cannabis factory after dozens of plants found
A cannabis farm was busted and two men were arrested after police officers spotted them acting suspiciously in Telford.
The men were stopped and searched in the Woodside area on Thursday by West Mercia Police’s Local Policing Priority Team.
Inside a nearby address officers found a cannabis factory containing 80 plants.
Police tweeted alleging that the two men entered the country illegally from Albania and had been driving around the country with no documents.
Xhonino Koci, aged 20, and Arlind Jolla, aged 28, were charged on Friday with possession and production of cannabis.
Both men, of no fixed abode, were remanded in custody.
The Local Policing Priority Team targets problems specific to local communities, be that drugs, burglary, modern day slavery, economic crime or fraud.
