Four men have each been sentenced to two years and two months behind bars after police discovered just under 7kg of cannabis with a street value of around £20,000 at an address in Littlehampton.
Officers from the Local Support Team in Littlehampton carried out a drugs warrant in October last year after intelligence was received that a property in Sussex Street was being used to grow cannabis. Police forced entry and found four men inside together with the harvested drugs and a commercial set up in place to grow cannabis plants.
At Chichester Crown Court on Thursday (28 January), the four men were sentenced for growing cannabis after they pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing. They are Dinh Anh Tuan, aged 34, Ngyuen Tien Duy, aged 37, Tran Ngoc Dinh, aged 50, and Dinh Quang Tu, aged 30. All are from Vietnam but were living in Littlehampton.
As part of the case, police seized assets from the suspects under the Proceeds of Crime Act and a Confiscation Order has been made to the court.
DC Dave Midgley, of Arun CID, said: “This shows that crime does not pay. Police have stopped £20,000 of cannabis being sold on the streets of Sussex. Not only have the defendants received a lengthy prison sentence for harvesting cannabis, they have also lost the proceeds of this crime, and may lose several assets of around £15,000. This cash will ultimately be recycled into resourcing further police activity against such operations."
Tuesday 2 February 2010
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