Hampton pub, drugs above.

[lencops]

Sgt. Leaver said, Some of the drugs were ready for harvesting and would have been gone in about a week. It’s a good job we got in before then. “This operation has prevented these drugs from getting onto the streets of Birmingham.”
Sgt Leaver said a number of plants were taken away for analysis while the rest would be destroyed, denting the market for cannabis in the city.
Police smashed a record number of cannabis factories hidden away in suburban homes across the West Midlands last year.
A total of 174 cannabis factories were found in 2004 but this rocketed to 672 - almost two a day - by the end of last year.
A 33-year-old man was due before magistrates today charged with cultivating cannabis and abstracting electricity.
A woman, aged 24, was arrested at a separate address yesterday was released on bail pending further inquiries

 

[lencops]

Cannabis farm found over Hampton pub in Great Hampton Row



Apr 29 2009 by Mark Cowan, Birmingham Mail

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HUNDREDS of cannabis plants worth thousands of pounds were seized by police who raided an illicit drug production “factory” above a Birmingham pub.
Two people were arrested after officers who burst into the flat above the Hampton pub in Great Hampton Row, Hockley, found around 500 plants growing in two tiny attic rooms yesterday.
Police believe it would have been harvested and on the streets within a week.
Hampton boss Simon Dean, who rents the pub with his brother Martin, said the upstairs rooms were let out separately and he was shocked by the discovery.
“The upstairs rooms are separate from the pub and were rented to someone else. We hardly ever saw anyone there,” he said.
“We took the bar part over last year and have spent a lot of money on it. It’s frustrating because it has nothing to do with us. We don’t tolerate drugs in the bar.
“We just hope we haven’t wasted our money and can continue running it.”
Officers from West Midlands Police’s Newtown neighbourhood team swooped at 8am after a tip-off.
Thermal imaging cameras aboard a force helicopter had also picked up a heat source being given off by the superstrong growing lamps needed to cultivate the drugs, even though the rooms had been lined with foil to mask the tell-tale sign.
Acting Sgt Rob Leaver said officers smashed through a reinforced door to get into the third-floor rooms at 8am. Well done the Police. Len

 

[Patty]

Len there was one just by me last month, top of Mucklows Hill. It was a big house, rented out apparently, the owner lived abroad and rented it for 6 months of the year.
My friend lived 3 doors away and one night they heard some glass smashing, so they phoned the police. When they arrived the police found the porch door glass smashed, so entered the house where they found a Chinese man badly injured. When they had a good look around it was full of Cannabis. The man was just sleeping there to look after the crop, but I think a rival group wasn't too happy. I don't think they caught the intruders. The police told my friend to always be alert if you see a rented house and they never open there curtains, they ought to come to my road, there are a few rented houses and when they let them to younger folk they never seem to open there curtains, think they stop up all night and sleep all day, oh to be young LOL

 

[Frothblower]

Blimey! I was only taking photos of that place a few weeks ago. I should have popped in for a quick joint--I mean Pint

 

[motorman-mike]

I like a joint meself, provided it's British beef or pork with all the trimmings and some roasters. Roll on Sunday!