Man Jailed After Perivale Pot Farm Found
House in Woodhouse Avenue was being used to cultivate cannabis
One of the rooms in the house in Perivale. Picture: Met Police
A 25-year-old man has been jailed for 7 months after a police raid discovered a cannabis farm in Perivale.
Emiljan Ndreca of no fixed abode was found guilty on Friday, 16 September at Isleworth Crown Court for production of cannabis.
The court heard that on Monday, 9 August, officers from the West Area Violence Suppression Unit (VSU) attended an address in Woodhouse Avenue, following information received about the address being used to cultivate cannabis.
Once inside the property they discovered multiple rooms set up for the growth of cannabis and Ndreca on his own working to cultivate and supervise the crop.
The cannabis seized had a street value of approximately £50,000. Ndreca was was arrested for production of cannabis and taken to custody.
He was subsequently charged and remanded overnight to Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, where he entered a plea of not guilty.
Due to the strength of evidence against him, he changed his plea to guilty at a pretrial hearing at Isleworth crown court on Thursday, 16 September.
Emiljan Ndreca initially pleaded not guilty
PC Kevin Taylor of the Violence Suppression Unit team 2 said, “This was a great result following vital intelligence passed to us by the public. Cannabis production and the sale of it is a vital income source for organised crime groups and gangs. The money from it is used to fund further criminal activities and fuels ongoing violence on the streets. Shutting down this factory and imprisoning Ndreca who was being used to cultivate the crop has taken a tool out of the hands of the gangs to make money and fund criminal activities. We will do our best to shut down as many of these as we can and imprison anyone we can identify in the involvement of setting up or running them. This is just a small part of the work we are doing every day to help drive down drug related violence in the West Area.”
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September 23, 2021
