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An illegally trafficked carpenter caught hiding behind cannabis plants at a Bradford drugs farm has been jailed for eight months.
Police called to an ongoing burglary found the house door smashed and cannabis plants strewn over the steps, Bradford Crown Court heard today. Inside the address in Maidstone Street, Bradford Moor, officers found a Vietnamese man with designer clothing, two phones and £86 in cash. Today, Le Van-Le, 39, of no fixed address, was imprisoned for two years and seven months after pleading guilty to production of cannabis. Recorder Michael Fanning said that although Van-Le, an illegal immigrant, had at first suggested he was trafficked to the country “he now no longer suggests that he was...
A general file picture of a cannabis plant A father of three has been spared an immediate prison sentence after he was caught tending a £54,000 cannabis farm at a house in Bradford. Reece Smith had lost his employment when he agreed to water the plants for money at the address in Toftshaw Lane, East Bierley, his solicitor advocate said today. Smith, 29, of Breaks Fold, Wyke, Bradford, pleaded guilty to production of cannabis on July 4, 2019. Prosecutor Fiona Clancy told Bradford Crown Court that he did not set up the cannabis farm and had made no agreement about how much he would be ...