A drug gang have been jailed over an estimated £3 million a year cannabis growing operation after police found a ten-bed house filled with 5,000 plants with a £500,000 street value. Four men were arrested at the grow site on suspicion of the cultivation of cannabis and concerned in the supply of cannabis in November last year.
The fifth man was located and stopped on his way back to London shortly after. Zurafet Lika, 26 and Sajmir Mata, 41 from Exeter, were both found guilty this week of the cultivation of cannabis.
The pair were each sentenced to two years and three months in prison for their part in the biggest commercial production of cannabis ever seen in Devon and Cornwall. The three other men, Osman Hakorja, 31, Geraldo Mali, 25, and Mohamed Troci, 27, were also sentenced on April 1 after admitting cultivation of cannabis.
