Police in Telford raided a cannabis factory in Telford this morning, seizing plants worth thousands of pounds, arresting a man and seizing a machete.
Officers say plants with a street value in the"thousands of pounds" were seized as evidence during the raid and the power company was called in to make safe the power supply to the property in Ketley.
"There were plants in virtually every room and the house was like a sauna. There is evidence that the grower had been illegally abstracting electricity."Sgt Jones said the community is key to policing drugs and other problems in the community. He added that sometimes cannabis factories have used child slave labour which gives them an extra dimension and includes the involvement of social services.
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