Narcotics (443)

Police discovered a 30-plant cannabis factory after executing a warrant at a farm in Thornton.

Operations support officers, acting on community intelligence, swooped on the farm in Fleetwood Road South at 11am on Thursday 22 July.

The cannabis factory was discovered in a concealed room in the eaves of a brick barn.

Police today issued photographs of a suspected cannabis farm they uncovered in Wigton this week where they seized £7500 worth of the drug.

Fifteen cannabis plants were discovered during a raid in Rochdale today.

Acting on intelligence from members of the public, officers from the Rochdale South Neighbourhood Policing Team raided a house on Kensington Street, Milkstone and Deeplish, at about 8am on 14 July 2010.

A cannabis farm of 15 mature plants was found in a first floor room.

Around 60 cannabis plants were found after officers searched a house in Goldsworth Park, Woking, last Wednesday (June 30).

Police were called to the address at 8-15pm following reports of a disturbance at the premises in Littlemead.

A search uncovered the plants being grown in two bedrooms.

A man and a boy have been arrested following the discovery of a large cannabis factory in south Northampton.

The factory was discovered at shortly after 11am today at a three-storey end of terrace property in Thorn Hill on the Briar Hill estate.

Around 500 cannabis plants, at various stages of maturity, are being seized and removed from the property today.

An electrical fire at a house in Northampton early today alerted police to the presence of a cannabis factory.

The alarm was raised at 9.25am in respect of a fire at a property in Faramir Place in Overstone Lodge, Northampton.

Police have arrested 13 men and six women in a series of early morning drugs raids across New Milton and other parts of the New Forest today, Tuesday, June 29.

All 19, who are aged between 21-55 years, are being held at police stations across Hampshire where they are being questioned by detectives.

This week, officers from Protective Services, Norfolk Constabulary community volunteers and Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service destroyed the cannabis growing rooms and drugs paraphernalia at a factory unit.

King's Lynn DC Simon Stephenson said:

Police executed the warrant on King Street at about 9.50pm on Tuesday 15 June 2010, and seized a mobile phone converted to work as a stun gun stashed in a kitchen cupboard.

Officers also discovered a foil wrap containing white powder, a syringe of brown liquid and a bag of blue pills in the bathroom.

Officers from east Surrey are investigating a cannabis factory which was found in Horley Road, Earlswood, on Friday, 11 June.

Just after 3.30pm a number of police officers arrived at the four-bedroom semi-detached house and uncovered a significant hydroponics factory in operation with cannabis plants, at various stages of growth, being cultivated in each bedroom.

The medication, Tramadol and an Epipen were stolen during a party at a private house and could be extremely dangerous if used by anyone other than the prescription holder.

Tramadol is a powerful pain killer and the Epipen contains adrenalin, which if injected, even by accident could prove very dangerous.

The Holbeck Neighbourhood Policing Team uncovered more than 100 cannabis plants after executing a drugs warrant at the weekend.

Police officers and police community support officers (PCSOs) executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at an address in Shafton View, Holbeck just after midday yesterday.

Police discovered a 39-plant cannabis factory after searching a house in Thornton

Officers had attended an address in John Street, Thornton, yesterday (Tuesday June 8) in order to make an arrest.

After carrying out a search of the property, the cannabis plants, along with various items of cultivation equipment, were found in the loft.

Police in Blyth have recovered 83 cannabis plants with an estimated street value of more than £43,000.

Acting on information received, they carried out a search warrant at a house in Barnard Street, Blyth, on Wednesday morning, June 2, and found the cannabis farm.

Enquiries are currently being carried out to trace the tenant of the house.

Police executed a drugs warrant at an address in Mill Lane, Layham on the morning of Monday 24th May.

Ten cannabis plants, cannabis leaf and hydroponic equipment were seized and a 65-year-old man from the Hadleigh area was arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis, he was given a caution for this offence.