Tons of of hashish vegetation have been present in what police have known as a “large-scale hashish operation” in South Auckland this week — however these behind the operation are but to be discovered.
Counties Manukau Central Space Commander, Inspector Adam Pyne, mentioned in a press release the search was undertaken at a collection of flats within the Manurewa space, due to info supplied by the general public.
“On Monday, employees from our Tactical Crime Unit executed 4 search warrants on the road.
“They discovered at the very least 357 hashish vegetation at varied levels of maturity from throughout the 4 flats, totalling 444kg.”
The hashish has an estimated avenue worth of between $200,000 and $600,000, police mentioned.
“Roughly half of the vegetation have been nearing maturity for harvesting, and we additionally discovered a major quantity of packaged hashish positioned contained in the oven in one of many flats,” Pyne mentioned.
The vegetation have been taken away and destroyed, police mentioned.
Pyne mentioned there have been no folks positioned in the course of the search warrants, “however we’re persevering with to make enquiries to find these accountable and maintain them to account.”
“We’re elated to have this unlawful drug off the streets and out of the palms of sellers, and people would make revenue from it.”
Anybody with info is inspired to name police on 105, quoting file quantity 240530/6133.
It comes two weeks after police uncovered hashish plots value $15 million in rural Auckland which led to the arrest of 9 folks.
