In slurry pit, behind bookcase: hiding hemp farm creative activity

In a slurry pit
In Boxtel, a hemp nursery was found on June 8 this year in a slurry pit on the Roond. Through an office space, a ladder led the agents to the well where the nursery was located. Here were more than 750 hemp plants and associated equipment. The police also found five kilos of dried hemp buds in a package. All of this stuff was confiscated and the hemp buds were destroyed.

Under a commercial building
After an anonymous tip, the police found a hemp nursery under a company building on Jules de Beerstraat in Tilburg in mid-September last year. According to a police spokesman, the fact that the three to five hundred plants were located under this company building made it a particularly risky situation. “You had to crawl to get to the spot. It really took a while to get there. If you were there and something went wrong, you were done.”

In a forest
At the end of April last year, the police discovered an underground cannabis nursery in a forest near a caravan camp on Terraweg in Best. According to the police, hundreds of plants were found here.

Behind a bookcase
At the beginning of March 2021, the police made a special find in Oss. A hemp farm turned out to be hidden behind a bookcase. In the secret room were 637 plants that were almost ready to be harvested. Officers also found 645 cuttings in the attic. The electricity and water were illegally tapped for cannabis cultivation.

In a buried shipping container
On December 2, 2020, a cannabis plantation was found in Aarle-Rixtel in a buried sea container. “You don’t see that often,” said a police spokesman at the time.

In a boat
At the beginning of October 2020, a large ship floated in the port of Werkendam. About 2,000 plants were hidden in the cargo area. Difficult to find and a life-threatening situation. The hemp plants were in fact in the hold where there was a considerable layer of water and where power wires were swinging open and exposed. In 2013, a large cargo ship was also found in Brabant, containing more than a thousand plants. This ship was in Veghel. The police tracked down these hemp plants because it had been noticed that a striking amount of electricity was being consumed in the port of Veghel.

Under the lift bridge at a garage
At the end of January 2020, the police discovered a highly professional hemp nursery with 750 plants under the lift bridge of a garage on Jules de Beerstraat in Tilburg, on the Kraaiven industrial estate. A kilogram of dried hemp buds was also found. The police tracked down the cannabis farm after a tip and because a striking amount of electricity was suddenly used.

In an overpass
In mid-July 2012, a cannabis farm was found in a viaduct on the A73 near Linden. The police discovered the nursery on Hooge Voort around midnight. The cannabis plants had already been removed after a harvest. A cherry picker from the fire brigade in Cuijk had to come to open the hatch in the viaduct. The power turned out to be tapped through matrix signs above the highway. A year earlier, a nursery was also found in a pedestrian viaduct above the A2 near Vught.

On farmland
In 2010, a large amount of hemp was also found at an asparagus grower in Budel. More than twenty thousand plants were hidden there among the vegetables. This was noticed at a certain point because the cannabis plants grew much higher than the asparagus. The man was demanded two years in prison, but according to the judge there was insufficient evidence for a conviction because it was not certain that the farmer knew that there was hemp on his property.