Three men between the ages of 26 and 51 were arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis and abstracting electricity after police raided a premises in Rochdale today
The warrant on Fenton Street in the Milkstone and Deeplish area saw a cannabis farm located and dismantled, and 81 large plants with an estimated street value of £81,000 were seized.
Inspector Meena Yasin of GMP’s Rochdale neighbourhood policing team, said: “Our team of neighbourhood officers and PCSOs are relentless in their pursuit of neighbourhood crimes, we are out daily in the communities we serve.
“We engage with residents, gather intelligence and execute warrants to disrupt criminal activity and are determined to shut down cannabis farms across Rochdale, but we need your help to keep a line of communication between the public and the police.
“The distribution of drugs can result in violent crime, and the exploitation of vulnerable people, the equipment used can be prone to malfunctioning, which has resulted in dangerous fires that have spread to neighbouring homes.”
