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Police seize £2.4m of drugs from Tipton industrial unit

More than £2.4 million worth of cannabis plants have been seized from an industrial unit in Tipton.

Published Mar 2, 2013

Police ripped through the shutter doors of the unit on Great Bridge Street with a fork lift truck.

The unit was packed full of around 6,000 cannabis plants – worth about £400 each.

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Around seven officers acting on community intelligence stormed the unit at 2pm yesterday.

Two men were discovered inside and were arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis.

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