Police dig up an underground cannabis farm of 700 plants in Demen
Police uncovering a suspected hidden grow at a house on the Sint Laurensstraat in Demen, North Brabant, on the evening of 12 October 2026 found an underground cannabis farm and seized 700 plants, destroyed on site by a specialist firm; the residents were said to be on holiday and nobody had been arrested by the next day.
🇳🇱 Demen, Oss, North Brabant · Netherlands
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Plants destroyed
700
Police dug out an underground cannabis farm behind a house on the Sint Laurensstraat in Demen, a
village in the municipality of Oss, on the evening of Monday 12 October 2026, finding 700 cannabis
plants, the outlets 112Brabant and Omroep Brabant reported.[1][2][3]
The police already suspected a grow at the spot and were right when officers went to look; agents,
firefighters, grid operator Enexis, water company Brabant Water and the municipality worked on the
site for hours, the electricity and gas supplies were cut, fire crews pumped water away, and staff of
the specialist firm Strukton pulled the plants, shredding them on site and carting the remains off in
containers.[1][4][3] A sports car and a van on the property were seized.[1][3]
Neighbours said they had noticed nothing of a farm they were told lay under the garden pond,
reachable through a hatch by the shed — details the police did not confirm; the couple who live in
the house were said to be on holiday, and their son came to move the pond’s fish into a container at
the police’s request.[4] Police said on Tuesday 13 October that nobody had yet been arrested.[2][4]
Neighbours said the farm lay under the garden pond, reachable through a hatch by the shed, but the police did not confirm the exact spot; they also did not say where the 700 plants stood in the ground.
No arrests had been made by Tuesday 13 October, and the owners, said by neighbours to be on holiday, were not named or charged in the accounts.
Whether electricity and water were stolen as in similar cases was not confirmed; the water and gas supplies were shut off and fire crews pumped water away.
The seized vehicles (a sports car and a van, per one account; two cars, per another) were not tied to a named person.
On the morning of 28 October 2026 police entered a building on the Molenwerf industrial estate in Uitgeest and found more than 200 cannabis plants and more than 60 cuttings. They said the power had been tapped illegally and that the plants would be destroyed. No one was arrested.
Police found 611 cannabis plants in a house in Waalre on 20 October, with one grow room directly beside a child's bedroom. The Veldhoven-Waalre police called the setup incomprehensible and warned of fire and electrical dangers.
On 9 July 2026 the North Holland drugs team dismantled a cannabis grow of more than 280 plants in business premises on Dolfijn in Enkhuizen after anonymous tips. No one was arrested. The plants are to be destroyed.
Police entered a business hall on the Pol in Losser after an anonymous tip and found a working cannabis farm with more than 1,000 plants. The nursery had illegally tapped electricity and water; no one had been arrested.
