Cannabis found in home raid.Byline: By Jasbir Authi CANNABIS cannabis: see hemp; marijuana. cannabis Any plant of the genus Cannabis, which contains a single species, C. sativa. It is widely cultivated throughout the northern temperate zone. plants were discovered when officers raided a Birmingham house. West Midlands Police West Midlands Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second largest in the United Kingdom after London's Metropolitan Police [1]. It covers an area with nearly 2. swooped on the property in Westfield Road in Acocks Green Acocks Green is an area and ward of south Birmingham, England. It is named after the Acock family who built a large house in the area in 1370. Acocks Green is one of the four wards making up Yardley formal district. Nowadays, it is written without an apostrophe. , seizing a number of cannabis plants from the house. Police but have not released any more information about the latest in a series of raids at around 11pm on Wednesday. Mike Bedford-White, who lives near the raided house, was told police may have recovered hundreds of cannabis plants from the house. He revealed the property, a three-storey late Victorian or Edwardian style house, had been let out to a tenant during the last six months. Mr Bedford-White, a retired engineer aged 64, said: "The house had already been entered by the police and they must have found the cannabis plants. "When I asked a few pertinent questions, they clammed up. There was a concentrated door knock up and down the road." Mr Bedford-White said a skip had been placed outside the house yesterday and police or police workers were seen throwing plants into the skip, which was later taken away around 5pm. Mr Bedford-White said the owner of the house had come round to see him and he had been informed that police had recovered 500 plants in the house. Hundreds of cannabis plants, with an estimated value of pounds 80,000, were found when officers swooped on a property in Falmouth Road in Hodge Hill Hodge Hill is an area seven km east of Birmingham city centre, England. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. The constituency includes the smaller constituency ward and the wards of Bordesley Green, Shard End and Washwood Heath. on the same day. Two Vietnamese nationals were arrested and are helping police with their inquiries. TWO men were arrested and a further three cautioned following a series of drugs raids in Birmingham. Officers executed warrants at six addresses in the Quinton area yesterday. They found a quantity of what was believed to be Class A drugs, cannabis and CS spray. A man was held on suspicion of possessing CS spray, and a woman on suspicion of possessing a Class A controlled substance. A further three people were cautioned for possession of cannabis. |
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