Brothers Diem and Tit Haong have been jailed.
- Credit: CAMBS POLICE
Two brothers caught growing a cannabis with an estimated value of £300,000 have been jailed.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s Rural Crime Action Team visited a property in Sawtry Road, in Glatton, on November 6 after members of the public alerted officers about recent suspicious behaviour.
Diem Haong, 39, and Tit Haong, 55, of no fixed abode, were found inside the property where officers found five rooms containing 360 cannabis plants of varying size with a potential street value of up to £300,000.
The pair pleaded guilty to a charge of producing cannabis. Diem was sentenced to 15 months in prison on March 3 and on March 10, Tit was sentenced to 16 months in prison.
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For a few years we saw a real focus on hare coursing by Lincolnshire Police and a very real reduction in incidents.
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