{"id":363839,"date":"2026-01-11T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363839\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:59:09","slug":"police-seize-two-tonnes-of-cannabis-in-blackrod-farm-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363839\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seize two tonnes of cannabis in Blackrod farm raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have recovered about two tonnes of cannabis from a tenement farm in what is believed to be one of the largest ever seizures of its kind in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bagfuls of the class B drug with an estimated street value of about \u00a324m were seized from a property in Blackrod, Bolton, on Friday, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Supt Joe Harrop said officers had &#8220;uncovered a large-scale and sophisticated illegal operation at the location, housing a significant volume of illegal drugs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men, aged 27 and 35, have been arrested on suspicion of drug offences and remain in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have recovered about two tonnes of cannabis from a tenement farm in what is believed to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-363839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}