A man in the U.K. has been arrested on suspicion of cultivating a Class B drug, namely cannabis, after the police found an illegal grow-op 550 plants strong.
Acting on tips from members of the community, officers with the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) executed a drugs search warrant at the Wigan, U.K. property at about 9:30 a.m. on June 7, notes a police statement.
Inside, they found both the substantial grow and a man, who was promptly arrested and was taken into custody.
According to the Manchester Evening News, the illegal grow had been set up in a large Victorian terraced home.
Officers discovered that the “house had been fully converted into a large cannabis farm and the electricity had been bypassed,” Wigan Today adds.
The electrical supply had been tampered with to power the grow, so GMP reports engineers were called to the
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