ACT police believe organised crime behind Canberra cannabis grow house network
Police say more than $6 million worth of cannabis was pulled off the streets when they charged six people and seized more than 900 plants from houses across the ACT.
Raids of eight rental properties uncovered the most sophisticated grow house network in the capital's history and disrupted a highly sophisticated drug syndicate that had operated in the ACT for up to six months, ACT Policing said.
A cannabis crop seized from a Kaleen grow house.Photo: ACT Policing
The discovery of about 148 plants and ahydroponic set-up at a Kaleen home in mid-June triggered Operation Armscote.
Detective Sergeant Richard Gough said evidence discovered at that house led drug team members to search nine more houses across the territory, most in the northern suburbs, in recent weeks, including two properties raided on Wednesday morning.
One of those properties was a grow house, while another, where police allegedly seized...
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