Police allege a 49-year-old woman was growing cannabis in her backyard and back deck of a house in Glen Innes.
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On Monday, police executed a search warrant on a house in Heron Street where they will allege she was growing 72 mature cannabis plans in garden-like plots and pots.
Police say they also discovered what they allege is cannabis leaf and seeds in the raid, which unfolded about 1pm.
A 49-year-old woman has been charged with cannabis cultivation and the possession of a prohibited drug and has been ordered to front court on May 29.
Meanwhile, a woman has been arrested and charged with threatening police with a plastic pole on Saturday night.
The 34-year-old woman made verbal threats of violence to police about 11:30pm on Saturday before arming herself with a plastic pole, police allege. They were forced to use capsicum spray before placing her under arrest.
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Police had been called to the soccer fields on Grey Street to respond to a disturbance.
Police have charged her with affray and intimidating a police officer in the execution of their duty.
She will appear in Glen Innes Local Court on April 24.
Andrew Messenger
Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au
