A 39-year-old Hamilton man has been charged with cultivating cannabis after a police raid at his house on Wednesday.
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Hamilton police Sergeant Rex Habel said a search warrant was executed at a property in Hamilton's Dempster Drive at 9.40am.
The search uncovered one mature cannabis plant and a small quantity of dry cannabis leaf.
The drugs were seized and the man was arrested and charged with cultivating narcotic plants (drug cultivation) and possession of cannabis.
He was bailed at the police station and will face Hamilton Magistrates Court on July 9.
The raid is part of a south-west police crackdown on rural crime which has seen seen hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of cannabis off the streets.
In March, a 47-year-old Heywood man was this week remanded in custody after police uncovered six large cannabis plants, 24 cannabis seeds and dried plant weighting over two kilograms, as well as 30 high-powered lights believed to be used in a hydroponic grow-house.
A 56-year-old Dartmoor man was also arrested in an unrelated police raid that uncovered six mature cannabis plant and two illegal firearms.
A Warrnambool woman was busted with 20 grams of cannabis, drug paraphernalia and evidence of significant drug trafficking.
And two Vietnamese nationals were charged in relation to $140,000 cannabis drying operation found in a central Hamilton home.
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