Drug dealers jailed after cannabis factories uncovered

Police who brought down a cannabis factory insist crime does not pay after three drug dealers were jailed.

Altin Laska, 27, Mircea Rusu, 24, and Nicolae Pasc, 25, all admitted conspiring to supply cannabis at Exeter Crown Court on Friday.

Devon and Cornwall Police said Albanian born Laska was handed a five-year prison term, while Romanians Rusu and Pasc both received twelve month sentences.

Their arrests came as part of the force's Operation Cesta, which uncovered four cannabis factories in Exeter, Newton Abbot, Dunkeswell and Minehead which contained a crop worth more than £400,000.

Last July, detectives stopped and searched Exeter-based pair Rusu and Pasc, in the West Midlands while the pair were en route to Scotland. Around 7kgs of Class B drug cannabis was found in the boot of their car.

Those arrests then led police to Laska, who moved in to large scale drug dealing after the failure...

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