Huge £267,000 cannabis farm discovered in Birmingham property

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A large cannabis factory worth more than £250,000 has been found in a Birmingham street following a raid by police.

Officers from the Tyburn police team attended a home in Hawkesyard Road in Erdington on Sunday (January 2) afternoon.

Once inside the residential property they discovered a cannabis farm with some 267 plants, worth an estimated £267,000. It took up the entire first floor of the address, with the loft also converted for cannabis cultivation.

The electricity metre had also been bypassed creating a ‘dangerous fire hazard’.

Read more: Cannabis factory found at city home after big blaze

The Erdington police team Tweeted: “Tyburn officers conducted a warrant on Hawkesyard Road in Erdington Hall.

“Where 267 cannabis plants were found within the address. Plants were seized. Thanks to all involved #dontdodrugs #newyearnewdoor.”

West Midlands Police confirmed an arrest had been made of a man living at the address and investigations are ongoing.

A spokeswoman for the force said: “A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis and later released under investigation.”

It is the latest cannabis growing operation discovered in the area. A large fire at a property at a semi-detached home on the A38 Tyburn Road shortly after midday on Tuesday, November 16 revealed a cannabis factory, with 25 firefighters tackling the blaze.

A drug-dealing suspect was stopped in Highcroft Road in Erdington with ’70 wraps of Class A drugs’ was stopped on November 2.

And cannabis farms worth more than £400,000 were found in the area in October.

Raids took place at properties in Howes Croft in Castle Vale on October 19, where 381 plants were found, at Beech Dene Grove in Stockland Green on October 24 where a large amount of Mamba (synthetic cannabis) was found.

And a property in Ryland Road in the Erdington Hall area was searched on Halloween (October 31) where 57 cannabis plants were found, with the property in a dangerous state with electricity bypassed.

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