611 cannabis plants found next to child's bedroom in Waalre
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.
🇳🇱 Waalre · Netherlands
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Plants destroyed
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Veldhoven-Waalre police found 611 cannabis plants in a house in Waalre on 20
October.[1] Officers had suspected an illegal nursery in the house, and the
suspicion proved correct.[1] One grow room directly adjoined a children’s
bedroom.[1] The Veldhoven-Waalre police wrote on Instagram on Monday that a
child’s safety must never be put at stake.[1] The police called the find
incomprehensible and warned of the dangers.[1]
Officers said they could not get their heads around a grow room sitting next to
a children’s bedroom.[1] Police pointed to short circuits, dangerous
electrical installations and fire risk from such grows.[1] They called it
incomprehensible that those dangers sat directly beside a room where a child
should sleep and play.[1]
Police urged people to report a regularly strong hemp smell, buzzing sounds or
other suspicious signs around a house, anonymously if preferred.[1]
The article names no arrests, charges or court outcome for this find.
Only one source could be opened, so no second account confirms the find.
The year 2026 for the 20 October find is inferred from the article's 2 November 2026 publication date.
Whether the 611 plants were removed or destroyed on site is not stated; they are recorded as plants_destroyed under the tracker convention for seized plants.
The page's only image is a generic ANP stock photo of a hemp plant, so no media entry is added.
The page also links a separate Waalre grow of 120 plants, a different event left out here.
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 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.
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.
