10:53am Wednesday 4th March 2009
A selection of gardening magazines was discovered at a cannabis factory packed with plants in a police raid this morning.
Officers from Sutton West Safer Neighbourhoods Team led the raid at a privately owned house in Mulgrave Road, Sutton, at 8am today.
Five rooms - one downstairs and four upstairs - were packed with mature plants, police said.
No-one was in the property after police forced a sidegate and entered the house through the conservatory.
Make-shift lighting were found in the rooms where the cannabis was growing and all the windows had been blacked out.
Power supply boxes had been poorly fitted to walls and electricity wires hung haphazardly across the rooms where cannabis was growing.
And there were even copies of cultivation and gardening magazines left scattered in the conservatory.
Sutton West SNT Sergeant Graham Elrick estimated that there were about 200 plants approx with an estimated value of £15,000. He said: “Sutton police will not tolerate the cultivation, supply and use of drugs on the borough.”
The operation involved officers from Sutton’s Safer Parks Teams, scene of crimes and forensic officers, and dog units with two dogs. Electricity company officials were on hand to turn off the supply to the property.
Anyone with information call Sutton police station 0300 123 1212 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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