A man involved in drug trafficking will be deported at the end of his prison sentence after CCTV led police to a cannabis farm. Electricity had been bypassed inside units at Crossgate Drive, on Queen's Drive Industrial Estate, in The Meadows, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Arrested Aurel Cira, 29, of Allenby Road, Southall, Ealing, had his phone seized and suspicious messages were found - one asking him to load cannabis plants. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in producing cannabis after plants were found on January 31 this year.
More than 50 plants were found with a potential street value running into thousands of pounds. Cira, whose role was described as "gardener", was jailed for 18 months after he entered his guilty plea on Friday (June 30).
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Judge Stuart Rafferty KC said he would be deported from this country at the end of his sentence. Also sentenced at the same hearing was father-of-two Samson Prelipcean, 28, of York Avenue, Stanmore, Harrow, after he an imitation firearm in his work van in Gateside Road.
Prelipcean pleaded to possessing an altered firearm without a firearm certificate and was jailed for 12 months. The judge told him: "What you were doing with an imitation firearm that was loaded with ammunition only you will know?
"You were fortunate that the small pin was still in the barrel, because otherwise you would be going to prison for five years. In this country, we don't play around with guns.
"Gun crime is a problem for us and we take it very seriously indeed. Imitation firearms are used in connection with serious crime in this country as well as real firearms".
