Raid finds house 'packed to the brim' with cannabis

Officers found nearly 200 cannabis plants in the property

Police raided a house that was "packed to the brim" with cannabis, after receiving intelligence that the property was housing drugs.

Officers carried out the search at the house in Whitemoss Close, Wollaton, on Tuesday at about 08:50 BST.

They found nearly 200 cannabis plants being grown in five different rooms and arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of producing a Class B drug.

Nottinghamshire Police said the way the house's electrics had been modified to power grow-lights could have caused a serious fire.

Officers located the suspected cannabis grower hiding in the bathroom, which the force said was the only room on the second floor that had not been used to grow the plant.

Electricity had been illegally bypassed to help power the grow, the force added.

All the cannabis plants were removed from the property following the raid, while the growing equipment was also taken out of commission.

Sgt Georgina Northwood said: “The extent to which the electrics had been modified within this property to power the grows inside provided a very real fire hazard and so put everyone living in the surrounding homes at risk.

“We know, having listened to the views of our residents, that they don’t want to see those involved in cannabis production operating within their communities.

“These practices bring nothing but trouble and often have links to the type of wider criminality that people want to stay far away from their homes and families."

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