POLICE yesterday unveiled a cannabis haul worth more than £100,000 seized from a remote North-East farmhouse.
Officers found more than 100 cannabis plants when they answered a routine call to the house in Greencroft, near Stanley, County Durham, on Friday.
A team of bailiffs - on the farm to repossess a car - called in police after the vehicle's owner threatened them.
Uniformed officers checked the house and found what detectives described as a sophisticated set-up, with hydroponic lights and heaters used to accelerate the plants' growth.
The 12-week-old plants were already mature, giving each a street value of about £1,000.
The evidence was hung up to dry in a police lock-up, so samples can be sent for laboratory analysis.
About 16 uniformed officers and CID were involved in the operation.
A 51-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill and cultivating cannabis.
A 33-year-old woman was also arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis.
The pair were interviewed at the weekend and bailed pending further inquiries.
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