Man fleeing cannabis factory jumps straight into arms of police

Published: 7:30AM GMT 05 March 2010

Det Sgt Chappell said: "The operation went as expected, and nonetheless a masculine ran from the residence he was fast incarcerated and we are beholden to a piece of of the open who assisted with that" Photo: SOLENT

But the officers, one of whom was holding paperwork, seemed to be taken by surprise, and the man evaded their learn and jumped over a grassed area wall to have his escape. He was in the future wrestled to the belligerent 500 yards serve down the road.

Inside the residence in Basingstoke, Hants, military detected some-more than 500 cannabis plants which, it is estimated, could have been artistic to furnish drug with a intensity travel worth of some-more than 100,000 pounds.

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Police were executing a poke aver as the outcome of a tip-off.

The man leapt in to the behind grassed area from the belligerent building kitchen window as plain-clothed officers used a battering impel on the front door.

He was eventually apprehended in a beside cul-de-sac after a flitting outpost motorist shut off the fugitive"s trail by fixation his car opposite the road.

Meanwhile, behind at the house, an additional man was arrested in the hallway.

It is thought the men were creation breakfast when the military forced entry. A vessel full of rice was found still comfortable on the stove.

Potted cannabis plants were found flourishing underneath special lamps in five bedrooms and the garage.

Police additionally found chemicals and a H2O siphon in an the upper story bathroom, cosmetic sheeting covering most of the windows and a heating and lighting complement fraudulent up to the mains physical phenomenon supply.

Sleeping bags were found in the loll one of the couple of bedrooms not to enclose pots of the Class B drug.

The operation was overseen by Detective Sergeants Tim Chappell and Lee McClellan, from Basingstoke CID.

Det Sgt Chappell said: "The operation went as expected, and nonetheless a masculine ran from the residence he was fast incarcerated and we are beholden to a piece of of the open who assisted with that.

"This is piece of an organized crime squad and we are not going to let them get a foothold in Basingstoke."

A 23-year-old man and a 36-year-old man, both Vietnamese nationals, have been charged with being endangered in the prolongation of a tranquil Class B drug, in tie with the find of the cannabis plants.