POLICE seized 24 cannabis plants from a home in Darlington after an email tip-off.
A message was sent to officers via the Net the Rat website, which was set up to snare drug dealers.
The site attracted a flurry of responses when it was launched last March, but in the first four months of this year it only received three emails.
Sergeant Paul Robinson, of Darlington's police community safety unit, said traffic had picked up since then, with seven emails being received in the past two months.
"As a result of one of those we have recovered 24 cannabis plants from an address in Darlington," he said.
He urged people to use the site at www.nettherat.org to tell police about drug dealing activities in the town.
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