Kent Police carried out a drugs warrant at a commercial unit in Ramsgate on the morning of Wednesday 1 May 2024. Three people were seen leaving the back of a commercial building and were detained by officers after more than a fifteen hundred cannabis plants were seized at the unit.
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Inside the premises, police found between 1,500 and 1,700 plants which were seized along with cultivation equipment. UK Power Networks also attended to help make the scene safe, following concerns the electricity to the building had been tampered with.
Three men, aged 33, 43, and 48, have been arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis and abstracting electricity and taken into custody while enquiries continue.