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Massive cannabis farm discovered at house (From The Bolton News)
Massive cannabis farm discovered at house
12:14pm Monday 21st May 2007
CANNABIS plants worth up to half-a-million pounds have been discovered growing at a sophisticated farm set up in a terraced house in Great Lever.
Police made the startling discovery when they went to the house on Cestrian Street to investigate a car crash on the road on Saturday morning.
One or two men of oriental - possibly Vietnamese - origin are thought to have fled, leaving the professional-looking set-up behind.
Police estimate that £30,000 had been spent on lights, fans and venting and the walls of every single room were covered in reflective sheeting to help encourage the plants to grow.
There were more than 300 mature plants ready for harvest on the ground and first floor of the house and about 300 saplings and younger plants growing elsewhere.
The crooks had crudely rewired the house to bypass the electricity meter.
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