A man has pleaded guilty to farming cannabis in Tolworth following a raid.
Tuan Nguyen, 22, was arrested last week when police raided a house in Hook Rise South.
Three areas in the house were being used for the drug farm, police said.
A recently-harvested crop was found drying out upstairs when officers carrying out a warrant burst into the house at about 7pm last Thursday.
A second crop was also being grown and another room held bags of fertiliser.
A neighbour said yesterday he had seen police outside the house.
They dug a hole in the ground to cut the electricity supply, he said.
The owner of a car parked in the driveway, displaying a driving school website, could not be reached for comment.
Nguyen pleaded guilty at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.
He will be sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on Friday, August 23.
Previous farms found in Kingston:
- Cong Phuong Nguyen, a 17-year-old Vietnamese boy, died after a cannabis farm in New Malden caught fire in 2007.
- A teenager was sentenced to 100 hours’ unpaid work and fined £100 in August 2010 when police found cannabis plants in his garden in Hook, days before he was due for sentencing for dealing the drug.
- A mysterious farm with 50 plants was found in a field in Malden Rushett in October 2010. The plants were hidden in a plastic greenhouse ready for harvest. No one was
arrested.
- Surbiton man Freddie Lee was convicted in January of cannabis production in Thornhill Road. He had told police he was just house-sitting.
- Neighbours tipped off police about a farm in Kelvedon Close, off Tudor Drive, in Kingston this January, when 200 plants were seized.
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