Mr Burns
08-03-2008, 05:35 PM
Domestic leads to hydroponics find
August 04, 2008 06:05am
POLICE stumbled on more than they bargained for after being called out to a domestic incident in Sydney's south-west and discovering a hydroponics set-up and a cannabis haul worth more than $30,000.
While at the scene of a domestic incident at a residence at Fiveash Street in St Helens Park yesterday, officers stumbled across a hydroponics set up, 14 cannabis plants and more than 4 kg of cannabis leaves worth about $30,000.
A 27-year-old man was arrested at the scene and has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, cultivating a prohibited plant, possessing a prohibited plant, supplying cannabis, possessing a prohibited drug and goods in custody.
He has been refused bail to appear in Campbelltown Local Court later today.
The set-up is not thought to be connected to NSW Police Operation Moonlight.
More than 2000 plants worth $11 million and sophisticated hydroponic set-ups were seized in raids at modified suburban houses in Blair Athol and nearby Bradbury in south-western Sydney in May.
August 04, 2008 06:05am
POLICE stumbled on more than they bargained for after being called out to a domestic incident in Sydney's south-west and discovering a hydroponics set-up and a cannabis haul worth more than $30,000.
While at the scene of a domestic incident at a residence at Fiveash Street in St Helens Park yesterday, officers stumbled across a hydroponics set up, 14 cannabis plants and more than 4 kg of cannabis leaves worth about $30,000.
A 27-year-old man was arrested at the scene and has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, cultivating a prohibited plant, possessing a prohibited plant, supplying cannabis, possessing a prohibited drug and goods in custody.
He has been refused bail to appear in Campbelltown Local Court later today.
The set-up is not thought to be connected to NSW Police Operation Moonlight.
More than 2000 plants worth $11 million and sophisticated hydroponic set-ups were seized in raids at modified suburban houses in Blair Athol and nearby Bradbury in south-western Sydney in May.