GREATER SHEPPARTON: Cannabis seized in raids


Police have charged a Springvale man after hundreds of cannabis plants were seized following two search warrants in Shepparton and Kialla.
Shepparton Crime Investigation Unit detectives and Shepparton Divisional Response Unit officers executed the first warrant at a property on Marungi St, Shepp-arton, about 8.30am on Wednesday (Nov. 26).
Police located what is alleged to be 269 cannabis plants, weighing approximately 180 kilograms.
A 48-year-old Springvale man was arrested and has been subsequently charged.
Charges include cultivate commercial quantity of cannabis, trafficking commercial quantity of cannabis, theft of power and possess a drug of dependence.
He was to appear before the Shepparton Magistrates’ Court.
Officers also executed a warrant at an unrelated property on Charm Court about 9am.
Police allege 223 cannabis plants, weighing approximately 140 kilograms were seized from the property.

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