Smell leads Shropshire police to cannabis in indoor greenhouse
An "indoor greenhouse" full of cannabis was discovered at a house in the heart of a small Shropshire town.
Police found three tents containing eight "well developed" plants in the garage of a house on Union Street in Bishop's Castle after officers smelled the plants while at the property.
A man in his 40s has been arrested and released on police bail while investigations continue.
Sergeant Adrian Woolley of West Mercia Police said officers had chanced upon the home-grown drugs farm while visiting the house on other business on Saturday.
The greenhouse kit was designed to evade detection, keeping heat in while dissipating the smell, he said.
But officers still caught a whiff of the class B drug when searching the property for the man, who was later arrested.
Sergeant Woolley said: "We seized a cannabis cultivation set of three tents containing well-developed cannabis plants.
"They are black square tents with silver on the inside to reflect the heat and light.
"There were also lamps, water feeders with optimum water fertilisation fed to the the plants and extractor fans that throw the smell out into the air.
"They're set up for maximum growth and designed to be discreet for internal growing.
"It's an indoor greenhouse, basically."
The plants were found in a converted garage that had been boarded up, he said, and the makeshift greenhouse was being powered illegally.
"A set up like this takes up a lot of electricity and you often find them accessing it illegally," said Sergeant Woolley.
