Cannabis plants discovered by police above Southend bakery
A cannabis grow has been discovered above a Southend bakery after a warrant was executed on Beach Road
A cannabis grow has been discovered above a Southend Bakery, with police finding 99 mature plants.
Officers entered the building, and after passing through the shop and kitchen, they forced entry to the upstairs flat.
They found a series of sealed rooms that had been converted to cultivate the cannabis plants.
All of the 99 plants were seized, and will be destroyed.
Sergeant Alex Farr from Southend Proactive Problem Solving Team said:
“As we suspected, it wasn’t only bread and sausage rolls being produced in the building. The cannabis plants would be worth a lot of dough to the criminals behind this grow and this seizure limits their ability to operate in the city.
“Drug dealing is linked to a whole range of other types of offending from anti-social behaviour through to serious violence. If you see suspicious activity at a building – windows covered, people coming and going at unusual hours, the smell of drugs – please report it to us and we will investigate.
“We have uncovered a series of grows in the past three months and our message to anyone producing or selling drugs on the streets of Southend is clear – we will track you down and arrest you.”