Cannabis worth £2 MILLION seized in just two weeks
Nearly £2 million worth of cannabis and more than 3,800 plants have been seized after a two-week police crackdown across the West Midlands and Staffordshire.
The seizures included more than £1.3 million from Staffordshire and some £409,000 from the Black Country. The remainder of the plants seized were in Birmingham.
In total, from April 7 to April 22, 3,832 cannabis plants were seized with an estimated value of £1,990,800.
A raid at an address on Laundry Road in Smethwick produced a haul of 318 plants worth 6,450 were found at a property in Leslie Road in Wolverhampton.
A total of 310 plants worth £139,500 were found at an address on Himley Road, Lower Gornal, Dudley, while 29 plants worth £13,050 were seized from an address at Humphries Crescent in Bilston.
The largest haul came in Stoke on Trent, more specifically Atlas Street, where officers seized a whopping 1,714 plants worth £771,300.
Another large seizure in the county also came in Stoke where 766 plants worth £344,700 were found at a property on Railway Passage in Longton.
A total of 483 plants were seized from a property in Ellgrave Street in Stoke worth £217,350 in a third seizure from the north of the county.
Other seizures included 141 plants worth £63,450 from the City Arcade in Birmingham, 64 plants worth £28,800 from Ludstone Road in Selly Oak, 110 plants worth £49,500 from Needham Street in Nechells, 14 plants worth £6,300 from Castle Road in Weoley Castle, 195 plants worth £87,750 from Sheaf Lane in Sheldon and seven plants worth £3,150 from Essex Street in the city centre.
The Cannabis Team used Twitter to alert residents about their huge haul.
They tweeted: "Last week we seized cannabis worth at least £1.4 million from 10 addresses across the West Midlands & Staffordshire"
The tweet was met with a congratulatory 'nicely done!' by one follower.
