40 cannabis plants destroyed after Bestwood house raid
Nottinghamshire Police raided a house in Raymede Drive, Bestwood, and seized around 40 cannabis plants with growing equipment. The plants were destroyed and investigations are continuing.
🇬🇧 Raymede Drive, Bestwood, Nottingham · United Kingdom
Plants destroyed
40
Agencies
Nottinghamshire Police, City North Operation Reacher team
Officers arrived at a house in Raymede Drive, Bestwood, at about 07:00 GMT on
Thursday after receiving reports of drug-related activity.[1]A second account
says officers carried out the warrant in Raymede Drive, Bestwood, following
intelligence of drug activity at the address.[2]The City North Operation
Reacher team led the planned raid at around 7 am on Thursday.[2]
After forcing entry and searching the house, officers found around 40 cannabis
plants growing inside.[2]Officers seized the 40 plants, which were later
destroyed.[1]Police also removed the equipment used to power the grow.[2]Inside, officers found the electricity supply had been dangerously bypassed.[2]
Police urged anyone with information to get in touch as officers carry out
investigations.[1]
Photos and video
Cannabis plants seized after the Thursday morning raid in Bestwood.Photo details
The raid itself was reported as Thursday morning; 23 February 2023 is used as the incident date, with 24 February the publication date.
One account dates the Thursday raid parenthetically as 24 February 2023, but that date was a Friday, so the report uses the publication-date evidence that Thursday was 23 February.
The plant figure is given as 40 and in one account as around 40, not an exact measured count.
No arrests, charges or court outcome were reported.
South Staffordshire Police seized a quantity of cannabis and drug paraphernalia from a property in Penkridge after officers acted on information about suspected drug activity. Police said the individual involved would be dealt with accordingly, and published no weight, name or charge.
Bags of waste suspected to come from a cannabis factory were fly-tipped in a field near Newborough, Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire Police attended the scene earlier in the week and say an investigation with partner agencies is ongoing.
Police executed a warrant at a Birchwood, Warrington address and seized cocaine, cannabis, £2,000 cash and a phone, charging two men over an online cocaine and heroin supply investigation. Christopher Lee, 36, and Leighton Watson, 18, appeared at Wirral Adult Remand Court on 12 November 2026.
South Yorkshire Police found a white van on Brooklands Crescent, Sheffield, stuffed with black bin bags holding 75 cannabis plants after spotting two vehicles travelling in convoy in Fulwood. Follow-up enquiries led to a cannabis farm with about 40 plants in Gleadless and the arrest of a 27-year-old man, bailed pending further enquiries.
