Man charged after hundreds of cannabis plants found

Cannabis plants with lighting and equipment above them.
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Officers had a warrant to search the site at an industrial estate off Park Lane

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A man has been charged with cultivating cannabis after police found hundreds of plants growing at a site on an industrial estate.

Officers used a warrant to seize about 330 cannabis plants on the estate off Park Lane in Wolverhampton on Tuesday.

West Midlands Police said that all of the plants would be destroyed by its cannabis disposal team.

A 21-year-old man, of no fixed address, had been charged and was due to appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

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