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Police raided a property on Tuesday morning and found hundreds of plants



Cannabis plants were found packed into four rooms of a house in Coventry when police carried out a raid this morning.

Officers executed a drugs warrant at an address in Lythalls Lane, Holbrooks, at around 9am and discovered hundreds of plants throughout the house.

Plants were seized from a downstairs room, two bedrooms and the attic.

Police haven’t released the exact number of plants seized because they are still being counted.

The crop could have been worth hundreds of thousands of pounds as one plant usual yields around £1,000 worth of sellable cannabis.

A 42-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of cannabis cultivation and is currently in police custody.

Anyone with information on any suspected drugs issues in the city is urged to contact Coventry Police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Man charged after hundreds of cannabis plants found at house in Coventry

Police have charged a 42-year-old man after a huge cannabis factory was discovered in Coventry yesterday.

Nearly 350 plants were found at an address in Lythalls Lane, Holbrooks, after officers executed a drugs warrant at around 9am.

The plants were packed in to five rooms throughout the house and the crop could have been worth thousands of pounds in street deals.

Huong Truong, of no fixed address, was arrested at the scene and has now been charged with production of a class B drug (cannabis).

The unemployed 42-year-old is set to appear at Coventry Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday morning.

Cannabis farmer who paid £3,000 to come to the UK spent four months stuck in Coventry house

A cannabis farmer who spent four months in a house in Coventry after arriving in the back of a lorry from Vietnam will be sent back home - after spending six months behind bars.

Huong Truong was taken straight to the home in Lythalls Lane, Holbrooks, as soon as he arrived in the country.

The next time he left was four months later when police raided the address and arrested him after discovering it had been turned into a cannabis factory.

At Warwick Crown Court Truong, aged 42, pleaded guilty to being involved in the production of a drug.

When the police raided the house in Lythalls Lane on August 23 they found a downstairs room, two bedrooms and the loft had been ‘skilfully and professionally’ converted for growing cannabis.

The abstraction of electricity to run the growing lights, fans and other equipment was so great that the fuse box was overheating and melting.

Altogether there were 335 cannabis plants of varying stages of maturity, and although there had been no valuation of the potential street value, Recorder Christopher Goodchild said it ‘must have been hundreds of thousands’ of pounds.

Prosecutor William Douglas-Jones said Truong told the police he had entered the country illegally four months earlier, for which he had to pay $3,000.

He said he was taken straight to the address and told to water the plants and not to leave.

Truong added that he had been promised £200 a week which was to be paid when the crop was harvested, and that he had wanted to earn enough to return home to Vietnam.

In a reference to the fact that Truong will be deported after serving his sentence, Recorder Goodchild commented: “There will be no problem in him getting home now.”