Sentenced after cannabis farm found in Fartown house
Police obtained a search warrant for a house in Fartown after smelling cannabis from outside the property and discovered two rooms being used for growing and drying the illegal plants.
Robert Galley, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court yesterday police called at the house in Abbey Road on May 7 last year and got no answer when they knocked on the back door.
There was a “strong smell of cannabis” and there appeared to be fans leading out of rooms upstairs.
After obtaining a search warrant officers returned on May 13 and found the occupier, Steven Netherwood, present in the living room.
Two of the four bedrooms in the property were being used to grow or dry cannabis with entry only gained via a key-pad system.
Netherwood said he did not have the code but later accepted he had allowed the cannabis to be grown.
Mr Galley said...
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