Dewsbury man jailed for a year over 700-plant cannabis factory
Kristean Delia, 24, was jailed for a year after police raided a house on Bradford Road, Dewsbury, in May 2025 and found 700 cannabis plants in various stages of growth. He admitted producing a Class B drug after community intelligence led officers to the large-scale factory.
🇬🇧 Bradford Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire · United Kingdom
Officers raided a house on Bradford Road in Dewsbury in May 2025 after receiving reports that the property was being used to produce drugs.[1]Inside they found 700 cannabis plants in various stages of growth, along with 24-year-old Kristean Delia.[1]
Sentence
Delia admitted producing a Class B drug and was jailed for a year.[1]Inspector Charlotte Nicholls of West Yorkshire Police said the team had located the large-scale drugs factory by investigating community intelligence about suspicious activity, shutting down another criminal enterprise in local communities.[1]She said every such closure takes money from those behind drug-related violence and county lines crime, and urged residents to keep reporting suspected criminality.[1]
Case data
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Callum Roper, 22, of Holton Road, Barry, was jailed for 30 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting offences involving the supply of cannabis and magic mushrooms. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of both drugs between 3 December 2025 and 14 September 2026 and had been remanded in custody awaiting sentence.
Bolton Crown Court sentenced seven members of three linked drug gangs that trafficked cocaine and cannabis between Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. Five men received prison sentences of up to eleven and a half years, while two couriers received community orders and two leaders await later sentencing.
Daniel Thompson, 36, was found with 8,223.6 grams of cannabis resin, valued at up to £35,950, when officers searched a house on Moss Side Lane in Rixton in July 2023. Chester Crown Court gave him a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted possessing the resin with intent to supply and possessing cocaine.
Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.2236 kgPrison 9 months suspended for 12 months
Bradford Crown Court jailed Alfie Leahy, 21, for five years and Connor Broadbent, 26, for three years and four months over drugs found when police raided two homes in the Holmewood area at dawn on 17 July 2026. Cannabis was seized at a Grayswood Crescent address and cocaine, cash and jewellery at Dawson Street; police put the total street value of the drugs at more than £22,000.
Charged 2Prison 5 years (Leahy); 3 years and 4 months (Broadbent)
