Police dismantle massive cannabis factory in Newport

Police officers were busy as they seized more than 400 cannabis plants from a property on Manley Road on Friday, January 12.

The video shows officers enter a property before standing next to dozens of mature cannabis plants.

Cannabis plants are crammed into rooms with heat lights on them.

Police officers are seen cutting the plants at the stems before disposing of them and the equipment used to run the factory.

Police uncover mature cannabis plants (Image: Gwent Police)

Over 400 cannabis plants were discovered (Image: Gwent Police)

Police went in and destroyed them (Image: Gwent Police)

Watch the video in the post below as Gwent Police dismantle massive Newport cannabis factory

🚨 Officers carried out a warrant at an address in Manley Road, Newport last Friday (12 January).

❗ More than 400 cannabis plants were seized at the property.

📱 Enquiries are ongoing and anyone with information can call 101 or DM us quoting log ref: 2400013110. pic.twitter.com/GzaJkUQoYy

— Gwent Police | Newport Officers (@GPNewport) January 16, 2024

This is just the latest in a series of drug busts in the city centre.

Last week, illegal immigrants Adrian Daja, 27, and Andi Shabani, 28, were in court after being caught looking after the enormous crop inside where Wildings had once stood for 145 years in Newport.

The former city centre department store was transformed into a £2.1 million cannabis factory with 3,000 plants.

Byron Broadstock, prosecuting, said the building on Commercial Street was raided by Gwent Police on October 10 last year.

The defendants, who followed proceedings with the help of an Albanian interpreter, claimed they had been put to work there to pay off the cost of their passage to the UK.

The defendants, both of no fixed abode, admitted the production of cannabis.

Adrian Daja and Andi Shabani and the £2.1 million cannabis factory with 3,000 plants in Newport city centre (Image: Gwent Police & CPS Wales)

• Newport department store turned into £2.1m cannabis factory

Enquiries into the Manley Road bust are ongoing and anyone with information can call 101 or DM us quoting log reference number 2400013110.