 We initially got information about five months ago that there was suspect activity going on at an address in Forestdale and as a result of that information we've conducted some surveillance over a period of time to confirm what we thought might have been a drug operation going on and as a result of that surveillance we've executed a search warrant yesterday and located quite a substantial amount of cannabis grown hydroponically. How many rooms and what areas was it grown in? It's probably a case of what room it wasn't being grown in. There were seven rooms in the premises being used including a small granny flat to the side. Every room had or the other seven rooms cannabis was being grown in all rooms at different stages from seedling stage to one room which contained cannabis approximately two metres tall and yeah it was growing quite well. Even the kitchen had drugs in the fridge. We located steroids in the fridge. The bathrooms were being used to eliminate liquid from some of the hydroponic setups so yeah it was quite extensive. Every room had lighting. It had a substantial setup with regards to exhaust fans to eliminate odor and yeah it was quite a sophisticated setup. One one we haven't seen for a while. Yeah mature plants. There was a couple of rooms there where plants ranged from 1.5 to 2 metres tall and they wouldn't have been far off being at the stage where they could have been cultivated. There was bags located of leaf that had been obviously chopped up ready to go and there were also bags there where it looked like it was just bags of discard so even the bags of discarded leaf was quite substantive. He also had propagated some of the stems in a bid to obviously grow more trees. Power was coming in from the mains from the roadside. He has illegally obtained that power and Energex were out yesterday to ensure that that that ceased and the premises was made safe. How pungent was it? Pungent. We knocked on the front door and you could smell it from the doorway. What did your neighbours say? Were they surprised with you being so... We had neighbours come up to us. They thought maybe a serious crime had taken place or a violent crime of some sort. They had no idea who lived at the address. They said they didn't see many people there at all. It was quite an eye and to the two neighbours I spoke to they were quite surprised to know that this was going on in their neighbourhood. And he lived in that house? Yeah apparently. I don't know how he managed to do that but I lasted about 20 minutes inside the house before I was getting a headache so he's obviously a bit more tolerant than I am. How significant is this seizure for you guys? It's very significant. It's got a street value of $2.2 million at this stage conservatively and it flows onto so many other areas. If we can take $2.2 million worth of marijuana or cannabis off the road it means people aren't drug driving. It certainly dents the drug industry and we know that there is a nexus between property crime and traffic related injuries with drugs in people's systems. So certainly society is a bit of a winner in regards to that and certainly innocent people who get plowed into by people who are drug affected when they're driving. Any idea where it's going to be done? No none at this stage. We've still got quite a bit of investigation to go. The actual dismantling of the hydroponic setup is going to take the better part to two and a half days and I dare say the length of time to investigate the follow-up and the intelligence that we get out of this address will be even longer so it'll be an ongoing investigation for quite a while. Can we expect more arrests? I believe so yeah with what we've located so far there's certainly information to suggest that further arrests will be down the track. Who's that suggestion of some bikey lengths? Certainly it's an organised setup but as far as being an organised outlaw motorcycle gang setup that's yet to be determined but we'll certainly be looking at all avenues. Should it serve as a warning that you know if you're going to do this you're going to get caught? Definitely definitely crime stoppers is where we initially got this information. We take the crime stoppers information quite seriously and when we get a little bit information like that and we can value add to it with our own work it certainly shows that we can act on that and produce some good results so we just urge people to if they do you know even if it just seems a little bit off and they're not sure what's going on certainly something that can be followed up and this can be the result sometimes.