Just dopey! As police celebrate £300,000 cannabis bust... thieves steal plants out the back door



AFTER seizing a bumper crop of cannabis, detectives were making the most of their triumph.

They boasted about the £300,000 capture in a blaze of publicity and posed for photos with some of the 1,000 plants in the haul.

However, while police were relishing the moment at the front of the drugs factory, thieves were busy at the back.

An officer from South Wales Police poses with the £300,000 cannabis haul. As police stood guard at the front of the cannabis factory, thieves broke in through the back and stole some of the drugs

They broke in and started stuffing the cannabis into black bin bags to be loaded into a waiting van.

A neighbour, who was clearly somewhat more vigilant than the officers on the scene, noticed what was happening and raised the alarm.

But, by then, an estimated £15,000 of cannabis plants had been stolen.

An insider at South Wales Police said: ‘There are a few red faces around.

‘Everyone was chuffed with busting the huge factory and there was a blaze of publicity about it.

‘There was such a lot of cannabis inside we had to bring in council experts to dispose of it.

‘While we were waiting for that to happen, the thieves broke in through the back.’