Man charged over $2.5m cannabis

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A MAN will appear in court today after police seized hundreds of cannabis plants worth more than two and a half million dollars in Sydney's south-west.

 

Police said raids uncovered more than 1,085 cannabis plants at various stages of maturity, growing in hydroponic equipment inside homes and garages in Canley Vale, Fairfield West, Cabramatta, and Birrong.

 

More than 50 officers from the South East Asian Crime Squad, Drug Squad and Cabramatta and Fairfield Police were involved in the raids that started at 9.30am (AEDT) yesterday.

 

Two men, aged 56 and 39, and a woman, 42, were arrested and taken to Cabramatta and Fairfield police stations for questioning.

 

The 56-year-old Fairfield West man will appear in Liverpool Local Court this morning charged with cultivating a commercial quantity of a prohibited plant, police said.

 

The 39-year-old man from Canley Vale and 42-year-old woman from the same suburb were charged with cultivating an indictable amount of a prohibited plant.

 

They will appear in Liverpool and Fairfield Courts on March 3.

 

Detective Inspector Debbie Wallace said the police operation resulted from information received from members of the public via mail and calls to a hotline staffed by officers speaking Asian languages.

 

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