Cannabis plants worth £16k seized in Kingswinford caravan site raid
Around £16,000 worth of cannabis plants have been seized by police during a raid on a caravan site.
Nearly 30 officers swooped on the site, off Oak Lane, in Kingswinford, leading to two people being arrested.
An old Somerfield van and a large metal container had been converted into artificial greenhouses in which the tropical plants were being grown under heat lamps.
The 50-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of producing a controlled drug.
Both are being questions by detectives at a police station in the West Midlands.
Suspicions were confirmed when aerial shots taken earlier this month by the National Police Air Service pinpointed a series of unusual heat sources.
Superintendent Andy Parsons, head of local policing for Dudley, said: "The operation is the culmination of months of work.
"An operation was launched following concerns that people were farming cannabis and that dealing was operating from the site and we were determined to take action.
"We have been collating information which led us to believe that drug dealing was happening on this site and was being managed by a small minority of its residents."
