{"id":469297,"date":"2025-10-02T20:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469297\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:21:17","slug":"illegal-cannabis-factory-found-not-far-from-king-charles-family-home-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469297\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal cannabis factory found not far from King Charles\u2019 family home | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"image\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Highgrove House<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Tom Bevan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A huge cannabis factory has been found near to King Charles&#8217; family home.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Tetbury in Gloucestershire and uncovered a giant weed haul consisting of hundreds of plants growing in an industrial unit.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"image\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"436\" height=\"610\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p>Officers say the grow was so large that they were forced to use the suspect&#8217;s bedding to collect all of the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The site of the grow in Tetbury is close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highgrovegardens.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoqBz1_qtD5yt76CbeARit8Ch8jJ2rGpo2TkuW5UBIIx-wO_xM8X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Highgrove House<\/a>, the family residence of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.<\/p>\n<p>Two officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.police.uk\/area\/your-area\/gloucestershire\/cotswolds\/tetbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tetbury Neighbourhood Police<\/a> team came across the factory while on a routine patrol through the units.<\/p>\n<p>Cotswolds Neighbourhood Police said: &#8220;Its been quite the night for the Tetbury Neighbourhood Police Team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While patrolling some industrial units in the town PC Callum Morley-Blackwell &amp; PCSO Ed had occasion to challenge suspicious men who fled through one of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While searching the unit for the suspects the officers located a large cannabis factory, along with the suspects living quarters which were also on site.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Huge cannabis factory found near King Charles Highgrove home\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1246\" height=\"1662\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Inside the cannabis factory in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. (Cotswolds Neighbourhood Policing \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some time later, with the help of colleagues from Dursley, the grow was dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to confess that we ran out of extra-large evidence bags and had to borrow the suspects&#8217; duvet covers in order to recover all of the 225 plants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We nearly didn&#8217;t get all the evidence in our van. We&#8217;ll be happy to return the bedding if the owners would like to get in touch with us at Cirencester.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highgrove House By Talker By Tom Bevan A huge cannabis factory has been found near to King Charles&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519,156326],"class_list":{"0":"post-469297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-tom-bevan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115306436126317646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}