Big cannabis find
Cannabis plants, some more than 3m high, with a street value estimated at more than $140,000 were seized by the police from the Waitaki riverbed yesterday. From two small plots, 144 plants were taken after being spotted from an R.N.Z.A.F. Iroquois helicopter.
Many of the plants had been “manicured” half-way up their stems indicating that someone was making a lot of money from them, said Senior-Sergeant R. G. Middlemiss. It was the first time a helicopter had been used in the area to find cannabis. The recovered cannabis would have had a street value, of an average of $lOOO a plant, he said.
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Press, 10 March 1984, Page 1
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