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£200K cannabis farm found in Newcastle
Jun 1 2008 by Coreena Ford, Sunday Sun
A HASHISH harvest worth more than £200,000 has been seized by police in a drugs bust.
Cops executed a search warrant at a Newcastle house and found every room had been turned into a cannabis cultivating farm bulging with 404 plants, said to have a street value of £216,000.
Northumbria Police also found lighting and heating equipment at the property at Cloverdale Gardens in High Heaton, Newcastle.
Yesterday morning, as Hun Wang, 35, appeared at Newcastle Magistrates Court to be charged with cultivating cannabis, the police officer who executed the warrant last Wednesday told of the forces commitment to stamp out such drugs farms. Neighbourhood inspector Sav Patsalos who stormed the High Heaton home with members of his Neighbourhood Policing team said: We will not tolerate this kind of activity in our communities and well continue to take enforcement action, seize drugs and arrest offenders.
We always listen to the concerns of local residents and this activity which prevented a substantial amount of cannabis from reaching the streets proves well take whatever action we can to address issues they may have.
We are committed to reducing the supply and use of drugs in our communities and we can do this by working with partner agencies and local residents.
Id encourage people to be alert and report any suspicious activity to police.
Last week, nine members of a Vietnamese drug ring were jailed at Newcastle Crown Court for their parts in the production of cannabis.
Around 3500 cannabis plants with a street value of £2m were discovered when more than 100 police officers raided houses in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Gateshead last November as part of Operation Scorpion.
Four Newcastle properties at Newton Road, High Heaton, Simonside Terrace, Heaton, Wingrove Road, Fenham, and Fairholm Road, Benwell, all in Newcastle were all found to contain huge cannabis farms, along with houses on Styan Avenue and Edwards Road, both in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside and a house on Whitehall Road, in Bensham, Gateshead.
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As a footnote to this, I keep my ear to the ground well, a lot of smaller busts are made, not big enough to make the daily news and 1 in 10 busts is Vietnamese ran, we are flooded with them.
Jun 1 2008 by Coreena Ford, Sunday Sun
A HASHISH harvest worth more than £200,000 has been seized by police in a drugs bust.
Cops executed a search warrant at a Newcastle house and found every room had been turned into a cannabis cultivating farm bulging with 404 plants, said to have a street value of £216,000.
Northumbria Police also found lighting and heating equipment at the property at Cloverdale Gardens in High Heaton, Newcastle.
Yesterday morning, as Hun Wang, 35, appeared at Newcastle Magistrates Court to be charged with cultivating cannabis, the police officer who executed the warrant last Wednesday told of the forces commitment to stamp out such drugs farms. Neighbourhood inspector Sav Patsalos who stormed the High Heaton home with members of his Neighbourhood Policing team said: We will not tolerate this kind of activity in our communities and well continue to take enforcement action, seize drugs and arrest offenders.
We always listen to the concerns of local residents and this activity which prevented a substantial amount of cannabis from reaching the streets proves well take whatever action we can to address issues they may have.
We are committed to reducing the supply and use of drugs in our communities and we can do this by working with partner agencies and local residents.
Id encourage people to be alert and report any suspicious activity to police.
Last week, nine members of a Vietnamese drug ring were jailed at Newcastle Crown Court for their parts in the production of cannabis.
Around 3500 cannabis plants with a street value of £2m were discovered when more than 100 police officers raided houses in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Gateshead last November as part of Operation Scorpion.
Four Newcastle properties at Newton Road, High Heaton, Simonside Terrace, Heaton, Wingrove Road, Fenham, and Fairholm Road, Benwell, all in Newcastle were all found to contain huge cannabis farms, along with houses on Styan Avenue and Edwards Road, both in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside and a house on Whitehall Road, in Bensham, Gateshead.
Source :- Change ?? to www
http://???.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2008/06/01/200k-cannabis-farm-found-in-newcastle-79310-21004801/
As a footnote to this, I keep my ear to the ground well, a lot of smaller busts are made, not big enough to make the daily news and 1 in 10 busts is Vietnamese ran, we are flooded with them.
