Mount Evelyn: Police call in backup after huge cannabis crop seizure after a call to 000
When the first crew from Monbulk police arrived at a property in Mt Evelyn to carry out a drug bust they knew this job was too big. They needed backup. Find out what went down.
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When police call for backup it’s usually to help them subdue a particularly volatile offender or an out of control mob of drunken youths.
But when the crew from Monbulk arrived at a Yarra Ranges drug house they found a crop of cannabis so large they had to radio in for a trailer — this was no job for the divisional van
Plus, as Monbulk police Sergeant Luke Schroder said: “Cannabis stinks — you don’t want it in the car.”
Police arrived at the Bradman Ave house in Mt Evelyn about 1.30pm on Thursday, March 19 to find 24 cannabis plants growing in the backyard.
Sgt Schroder said officers had to pull most of the plants out of the ground, before they tried to fit them in their police car.
But he said they soon realised “there was no way they were going to fit” in the van, and had to wait for a trailer to take away the plants.
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Sgt Schroder said it was an unusual way for police to make a drug bust.
“People don’t normally ring triple-0 about this.”
He said police arrested a man in his 50s, who had since been charged and bailed.
Sgt Schroder said there was no evidence at the scene to indicate the drugs were being trafficked.