Drug bust

A drug bust took place this week in Canley which found over 300 cannabis plants in one household.

Following a lead about a suspiciously high use of electricity the local police forces honed in on this address and its owner. On the afternoon of Tuesday, 6 October, the police took action and raided the property.

Neighbours, who include Warwick students Sam Playle, Richard Howell-Peake and their flatmates, looked on as the police emptied the house plant after plant. The number of marijuana plants totaled 317.

“We didn’t suspect anything,” said Sam Playle. He and others living in the area rarely or never saw the residents of the house in Pershore Place.

“Stuff like this doesn’t normally happen, it’s like something off the TV,” Howell-Peake

Possession of this class B drug can result in significant fines and jail time. The street value of the drugs has not yet been calculated by the police. The owner of the plants has been identified as Tuan Hoang and has been charged with two counts of cultivating cannabis and one count of “abstracting electricity,” reported the Coventry Telegraph.

Hoang will appear before Coventry Crown Court in the near future, they added.