An emergency response to a downed power line at a Melbourne property has led to the discovery of nearly a quarter of a million dollars in drugs.
The cannabis “crop house” was neighbouring a property at Batesford Rd in Malvern East, where a tree fell onto electricity lines in mid-March, Victoria Police said.
The responding energy company had noticed an electricity bypass to the rental property where 90 cannabis plants were later found.
After a months-long investigation, the property was raided at about 5.30am on Thursday and $246,000 of cannabis plants were seized.
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