Police seize more than 1,500 plants in East Oakland, California marijuana grow-up bust
A report of a burglary in progress Sunday morning at an East Oakland home led to the seizure of a stash of marijuana worth more than $400,000, including 1,500 plants in various stages of growth and bags full of finished product, and the arrest of the resident, police said Monday.
The seizure, one of the largest recently, began about 4:26 a.m. Sunday after police received a call that three men were trying to break into a house in the 2300 block of East 16th Street.
Officers arrived and found that someone had partially pried open a security gate in the rear of the house.
Cops bust $1.2 million marijuana grow of BC Bud
Marijuana plants worth more than $1 million were seized on Friday in a massive grow-op bust in Winnipeg.
Winnipeg police executed a search warrant at a home at about 6:30 p.m., where they discovered a sophisticated marijuana grow operation.
Close to 1,100 marijuana plants were seized, which have an estimated value of $1.2 million. Also seized was roughly 40 grams of dry cannabis marijuana, worth about $400 and assorted growing equipment worth $25,000.
"When we get that amount of drugs off the streets of Winnipeg, it's certainly something I think that these investigators should be proud of," Winnipeg police Const. Natalie Aitken said.
Cannabis grower used government loan to set up marijuana farm
A search revealed a total of 123 plants in various locations about the premises being grown using a hydroponic system and a diverted electricity system Photo: GETTY
Stephen Duxbury's misuse of taxpayers money came to light when police raided his Merseyside home and found an illicit crop worth at least £6,400.
And there were about six times as many "nursery" plants not yet for ready harvest.
His barrister, Tom Watson, said that he has a heavy cannabis habit and no structure to his life.
"He was on benefits and got a crisis loan which he used to set up this illegal enterprise."
Liverpool Crown Court heard today (Fri) he was jailed for six months for running an earlier cannabis farm and released in October last year but on March 31 police raided the house he was renting in Archer Grove, Parr, St Helens.
A search revealed a total of 123 plants in various locations about the premises being grown using a hydroponic system and a diverted electricity system.
Setting up the system had involved making a hole in a ceiling and in walls and the property owner estimated repairs, replacing carpets, replacing the electricity meter and eradicating the damp smell would cost up to £5,000, said Joanne Maxwell, prosecuting.
Jailing 34-year-old Duxbury to 15 months imprisonment, the judge, Recorder Roderick Carus, QC, said that the six month sentence he received last year should have given him time to reflect and wean himself off drugs. "It was an opportunity to come off drugs and you spurned it."
