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Inside the huge factory factory in Grove Lane, Lozells(Image: WMP)<\/p>\nFive men were arrested after West Midlands Police raided the drugs factory in Lozells which had an estimated street value of \u00a39.5millionInside the huge factory factory in Grove Lane, Lozells(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n
Thousands of plants scattered across the address, of all shapes and sizes, growing in pots and under artificial lights.<\/p>\n
This was the scene inside one of the biggest cannabis factories ever discovered by West Midlands Police<\/a> (WMP) earlier this month.<\/p>\n WMP<\/a> said the drug farm in Lozells<\/a> was a ‘central supply hub’ to other cannabis factories in the region.<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/strong>Moment police and paramedics descend on Midlands street after stabbing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n A total of 9,488 plants were discovered inside the address with a whopping street value of around \u00a39.5million.<\/p>\n Plants were discovered at various stages of growth and cultivation.<\/p>\n Some were baby plants which police believed were intended to be delivered for distribution.<\/p>\n These were stored in propagators, which can act as mini greenhouses.<\/p>\n Five men were arrested following the raid at an address on Grove Lane on November 19.<\/p>\n A WMP<\/a> spokesperson said: “We seized more than 9,000 cannabis plants with an estimated street value of \u00a39.5 million from a property in Lozells<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We made five arrests after discovering the huge haul, which is believed to be one of the biggest cannabis plant seizures ever within our force.<\/p>\n “In total 9,488 plants, at various stages of growth, were seized from a property on Grove Lane on 19 November.<\/p>\n “It was clearly a central supply factory to other cannabis farms due to the large amount of propagators, which contained hundreds and hundreds of baby plants for distribution.<\/p>\n “Five men, one aged 37, one aged 36, two aged 32 and a 21-year-old, were arrested and taken into custody on suspicion of offences including cultivating cannabis, burglary and possessing a Class B drug.<\/p>\n “They have since been bailed as our investigations continue.”<\/p>\n Sgt Cheema added: “This was an absolutely fantastic outcome for our team.<\/p>\n “A major supply network has been disrupted which would have supplied cannabis across the West Midlands area.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five men were arrested after West Midlands Police raided the drugs factory in Lozells which had an estimated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-604425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115641898100817561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604425","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=604425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Inside](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1_grovelane03wm.jpg\")
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Inside the huge factory factory in Grove Lane, Lozells(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n