Covert marijuana grow-op found in swimming pool
Another great grow-op has been discovered.
In Cheech & Chong’s movie “Nice Dreams,” a character named Weird Jimmy had set up a marijuana grow room inside a swimming pool. Now some Brits have been caught doing the same thing.
From the Manchester Evening News:
Cannabis farm in swimming pool
A PRIVATE swimming pool stuffed with cannabis plants worth £800,000 was discovered by police by chance.
Officers were “speechless” when they stumbled upon the massive cannabis factory in the grounds of a large detached house in a well-to-do area of north Preston.
The pool outhouse was decked out with infra-red lighting, heaters and ventilation equipment and there was a sea of marijuana greenery instead of water.
The raid was launched on Monday morning after a court official told Lancashire Constabulary he had seen a man running away from the property when he had gone to question the occupants about an unrelated unpaid fine.
Officers who attended the Tudor-style house on Durton Lane drafted in search dogs, forensic teams and a police helicopter.
They found more that 1,000 mature cannabis plants, with a street value of between £700,000 and £800,000.
This haul led officers to raid a second property in the Queen’s Road area of Fulwood, where they found a large number of cannabis plants being cultivated. But these plants were mostly immature or seedlings.
‘Speechless’
Detectives are now hunting the group of men and women they believe rented the Durton Place mansion.
Chief Inspector James Lee said: “I am speechless at the level of this discovery.
“We have had experienced search-trained officers working at the scene and they have never seen a drugs cultivation operation like this in over 20 years.”
He continued: “‘We know that the property on Durton Lane was rented to four people who have been described as oriental in appearance, two men and two women.
“We urgently want to trace them and would urge them to come forward and speak with police.”
A Lancashire Constabulary spokesman said neighbours told officers they had no idea of the drug den operating in their midst.
“They’ve said they thought the noise from the lighting and heating equipment was simply caused by machinery needed to run the swimming pool.”
British stoners rented this mansion for their grow-op.
The swimming pool was turned into this pot farm.
Lesson from Cheech: When the police come, you’ve got to get up on a ladder and pretend to be swimming.
admin @ April 18, 2007