Inside cannabis farms raided on Greater Manchester estate

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A tip-off led to police raiding two cannabis farms filled with plants on a Greater Manchester estate. Officers discovered 'multiple rooms' filled with plants as they searched two properties on Chapel Road and Halliwell Road, yards away from one another near Rainsough Brow, in Prestwich.

Images shared by Greater Manchester Police show rooms with lamps, fans and wires dangling from the walls, above dozens of cannabis plants being grown.

GMP says one person was arrested at the scene. A spokesperson for GMP Bury South posted on Facebook: "As a result of intelligence led policing, two simultaneous warrants were executed on Thursday, November 2 2023.

Prestwich neighbourhood police officers entered addresses on Chapel Road and Halliwell Road in Prestwich. READ MORE: The takeaway so filthy the mice were eating the grease READ MORE: 'This has been brewing for years': Two teenagers stabbed in broad daylight outside Manchester College "Multiple rooms of small and fully grown cannabis plants were recovered during the searches and one male was arrested at one address." The spokesperson added: "You tell, we listen and together we make our communities safer." Information can be passed on to GMP by calling 101 or online here.