Drugs factory shut down in police raid (From Haringey Independent)

Tottenham drugs factory shut down in police raid

9:21am Tuesday 5th February 2013 in News By Bruce Thain

Police closed down a suspected drugs factory and seized more than 15 cannabis plants during a morning raid.

Officers forced their way into the flat in Stellar House, High Road, Tottenham, on the morning of Friday February 1 and seized 16 small plants, believed to be cannabis, being cultivated.

They also found high intensity lighting, ventilation ducts and bags of a substance also believed to be cannabis.

Police also found the electricity meter had been tampered with to provide power to the operation.

A 39-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of producing cannabis and abstracting electricity. He has been bailed and due to return to a police station on March 26.