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Houses are extensively modified to hide drugs
Kirsty Nicolson
Peterborough ET
11/9/07
CROOKS who run cannabis factories are doing DIY so they can cram in more drugs without arousing suspicion.
In what has been described as the most sophisticated lengths yet seen by police, criminals installed fake walls into a respectable looking home so anyone who peered through the window would see what looked like a normal family room.
But beyond the fitted cupboards and plasterboard walls lay rooms packed to the rafters with cannabis plants and hi-tech heating and monitoring equipment.
This was the scenario which faced city detectives when they raided the property in Peterborough Road, Farcet, yesterday morning.
They discovered what looked like two normal rooms at the front of the detached property – the front room and a room which was a converted garage and had patio doors at the front.
Detective Shanie Nayor, from Peterborough CID, said today: “I have never seen a house where people have gone to these lengths before.
“They had gone to some effort to disguise the fact they were using the house as a cannabis factory.
“The false walls had made it look like you were walking into a normal room, but behind the walls there were all these rows of cannabis plants.”
Officers took away nearly 500 full sized plants and nearly 500 seedlings, amounting to around £100,000 worth of drugs.
Det Nayor said she had seen instances where people had put plasterboard behind a bay window, so it looked like there was a normal room inside.
The false
walls are not the only methods criminals use in an attempt to thwart officers.
In some houses, in other parts of the country, they have booby trapped drug factories.
In one raid in London police had to be extra careful after discovering the back door had been wired to the mains, so that anybody trying to enter it would be electrocuted.
Over a 12-month period in Hampshire, 87 cannabis factories were discovered – two of which were booby trapped.
When officers raided the properties they found that the mains electricity had been wired up to the doors and windows.
Hampshire’s drugs intelligence manager, Detective Sergeant Andy Waite, described the move as a “sinister development” and urged landlords to be cautious.
Peterborough police said they have found no booby trapped properties so far and ensure staff from the electricity board are in attendance when they raid the homes.
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Kirsty Nicolson
Peterborough ET
11/9/07
CROOKS who run cannabis factories are doing DIY so they can cram in more drugs without arousing suspicion.
In what has been described as the most sophisticated lengths yet seen by police, criminals installed fake walls into a respectable looking home so anyone who peered through the window would see what looked like a normal family room.
But beyond the fitted cupboards and plasterboard walls lay rooms packed to the rafters with cannabis plants and hi-tech heating and monitoring equipment.
This was the scenario which faced city detectives when they raided the property in Peterborough Road, Farcet, yesterday morning.
They discovered what looked like two normal rooms at the front of the detached property – the front room and a room which was a converted garage and had patio doors at the front.
Detective Shanie Nayor, from Peterborough CID, said today: “I have never seen a house where people have gone to these lengths before.
“They had gone to some effort to disguise the fact they were using the house as a cannabis factory.
“The false walls had made it look like you were walking into a normal room, but behind the walls there were all these rows of cannabis plants.”
Officers took away nearly 500 full sized plants and nearly 500 seedlings, amounting to around £100,000 worth of drugs.
Det Nayor said she had seen instances where people had put plasterboard behind a bay window, so it looked like there was a normal room inside.
The false
walls are not the only methods criminals use in an attempt to thwart officers.
In some houses, in other parts of the country, they have booby trapped drug factories.
In one raid in London police had to be extra careful after discovering the back door had been wired to the mains, so that anybody trying to enter it would be electrocuted.
Over a 12-month period in Hampshire, 87 cannabis factories were discovered – two of which were booby trapped.
When officers raided the properties they found that the mains electricity had been wired up to the doors and windows.
Hampshire’s drugs intelligence manager, Detective Sergeant Andy Waite, described the move as a “sinister development” and urged landlords to be cautious.
Peterborough police said they have found no booby trapped properties so far and ensure staff from the electricity board are in attendance when they raid the homes.
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I was dating his daughter.
). Also they *used* to look for heat sources of grow rooms but I believe that has either been disallowed, or is only allowed with warrants now.
