A group of people have faced court after they were allegedly seen running away from police during a raid on a large cannabis crop.
Just before 8am on Tuesday, police who arrived to search a property at Nemesis Court at Buckland Park allegedly saw the group running away.
They set up cordons and arrested the five men and three women, who are aged between 28 and 66.
At the property, police said they located a “significant amount” of cannabis plants growing in glasshouses.
They were of varying sizes, and some were being grown hydroponically.
Photos taken inside the glasshouses, released by police, show several rows of plants at different stages of maturity.
Acting officer in charge of the Serious and Organised Crime Branch, Chief Inspector Darren Fielke, said the raid was one of the biggest in recent South Australian history.
“At the moment there’s upwards of 5000 plants, but the count is continuing so we expect it to be at least double that,” he told reporters at the scene.
“We don’t know exactly how much dried cannabis is there, but initial estimates would be that this is worth millions of dollars at street level and millions of dollars on the black market.”
Insp Fielke said the set-up had been “hiding in plain sight” among vegetable crops, and police had acted on a tip-off reported to Crime Stoppers.
“It’s very brazen. We’re surrounded by glasshouses here ……
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A group of people have faced court after they were allegedly seen running away from police during a raid on a large cannabis crop.
Just before 8am on Tuesday, police who arrived to search a property at Nemesis Court at Buckland Park allegedly saw the group running away.
They set up cordons and arrested the five men and three women, who are aged between 28 and 66.
At the property, police said they located a “significant amount” of cannabis plants growing in glasshouses.
They were of varying sizes, and some were being grown hydroponically.
Photos taken inside the glasshouses, released by police, show several rows of plants at different stages of maturity.
Acting officer in charge of the Serious and Organised Crime Branch, Chief Inspector Darren Fielke, said the raid was one of the biggest in recent South Australian history.
“At the moment there’s upwards of 5000 plants, but the count is continuing so we expect it to be at least double that,” he told reporters at the scene.
“We don’t know exactly how much dried cannabis is there, but initial estimates would be that this is worth millions of dollars at street level and millions of dollars on the black market.”
Insp Fielke said the set-up had been “hiding in plain sight” among vegetable crops, and police had acted on a tip-off reported to Crime Stoppers.
“It’s very brazen. We’re surrounded by glasshouses here ……
