Cannabis plants found after police search
More than 35 mature plants were seized by officers and cultivation equipment was dismantled and taken away, Kent Police said
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Dozens of cannabis plants have been discovered in a house by police in Ramsgate following a routine check of a car.
On Monday, officers approached a parked vehicle in Argyll Drive as they investigated suspected drug-dealing. Following a vehicle search, they found a locking knife in the glovebox.
A further search at a property found 35 mature cannabis plants and a collection of prohibited bladed weapons.
The driver of the car, a 33-year-old man from Ramsgate, was arrested on suspicion of possessing a knife and further arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis and possession of an offensive weapon.
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