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Anduen Spahiu, 20, was caught with more than 10kg of cannabis after he and fellow defendant Relos Havalja, 26, had been growing the drugs in Caerphilly. The pair had arrived in the UK illegally and had been put to work by gangsters at a house in Bedwas cultivating a cannabis crop. Alexander Greenwood, prosecuting, told Newport Crown Court that police acted on a tip-off on January 31 and went to Tydfil Road.
They stopped the defendants after they spotted them getting into a taxi. Officers found two bags of cannabis in a Ford Transit van as well as fans and electrical equipment. Mr Greenwood said: "It is the prosecution's case that a cultivation procedure had been set up and the defendants were arrested following the harvest.
"The total amount of cannabis recovered were in excess of 10kg...
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