More than 4,000 cannabis plants found in Flixborough offices
Humberside Police raided two office suites at the Bellwin House Business Park in Flixborough on 9 April 2008 and found more than 4,000 cannabis plants, put at about £4 million, with two men charged with cultivation.
🇬🇧 Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom
Humberside Police raided a building at the Bellwin House Business Park in Flixborough after a tip-off and found more than 4,000 cannabis plants being grown.[1]The plants, in two office suites beside legitimate businesses, were put at a street value of about £4 million.[1]Officers were still clearing the site on the Sunday after the Wednesday raid.[1]
Two men, Quang Van Tran, 36, and Anh Duc Ngugen, 45, both of no fixed address, appeared at North Lincolnshire Magistrates’ Court on the Friday charged with cannabis cultivation.[1]They both denied the allegation and were remanded in custody to appear at Scunthorpe court on the Thursday.[1]Police said a major drugs operation appeared to have run at night in the two suites, secured with roller-shutter doors and a complex ventilation system to hide the smell.[1]Pc Lee Smith, who took part in the operation, said it was an unusually large factory in an occupied first-floor office complex, and Health and Safety experts and Ministry of Defence police were brought in to help clear it safely.[1]
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