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Empty shop used to grow cannabis – ‘busted’ by police Last week, saw Police ‘chainsaw’ their way into an unoccupied shop on the shopping precinct, Stocksbridge. The premises, previously a frozen foods shop on Manchester Road was found to be a largescale Cannabis Factory in a unit on the top floor of the premises. Deepcar and Stannington Police posted “…apology for the noise and disruption we caused on Wednesday the 29th of June when we executed a drugs search warrant at the former Jack Fulton’s premises. We were very noisy as we had to use specialist teams with petrol Cut-Off Saw’s to cut through metal doors and shut-
ters at the premise in order to gain entry.
the electricity to make the location safe.
However, it was all very worth while as officers found a largescale Cannabis Factory in a unit on the top floor of the premises. Inside the location were two rooms, one filled with growing plants and the other with drying plants. From looking at the set up, it would appear it had been there a while and had been planned as a long-term facility.
… the production of Cannabis on this scale often involves vulnerable people within the community being exploited to assist with the growing of the Cannabis and the running and selling of the drug, not to mention the impact the use of the drug can have on its users.
The criminals will often abstract huge amounts of electricity which is not paid for and has an impact on everyone’s electricity bills going up (albeit by no means the only reason why our bills are going up) and in the case of this factory resulted in the electricity board having to dig up the pavement outside the shop to cut off FREE*
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The investigation into the set up is still on going and we will update you in the future with any charges brought.” If anyone has any information on drugs use and/or production, then please either contact the Police on 101 or online reporting tool or report it anonymously via the Crime Stoppers website
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