The group employed scouts on the ground to find the likely properties
A gang used heat-seeking drones to identify houses in Nottinghamshire with cannabis grows and steal more than £250,000 of the plants, a trial has been told. The group employed “scouts” to find premises where the illegal enterprises had been set up and send footage back to the leaders in London who “assembled a team” to burst into the properties and steal from them, a jury heard.
Four co-defendants, Addil Elmi, 24, of Buchan Road, Nunhead, London; Golam Yackobi, 19, of Brambles Farm Drive, Uxbridge; Donnell Quarry, 24, of Langston Hughes Close, Lambeth, London; and Khalid Omar, 23, of Montague Road, Uxbridge, have all pleaded guilty to the same charge and will be sentenced at the conclusion of the trial.
“How they spot these is by putting up aerial drones with heat-seeking cameras which can ‘zero in’ on the property and footage is sent back to London. If the cannabis had been grown to full bud the price we are talking about is in excess of £250,000 so would have been a pretty lucrative business indeed.”
Mr Lody played police body-worn footage to the jury of five women and seven men. It showed Yackobi climbing out of the bathroom window, falling, and being arrested. In the clip, an officer is heard to say to one of the other defendants who was Tasered: “What are you doing, robbing the grow?”
Nottinghamshire Police Mansfield Courts
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