Cannabis with an estimated street value of £14,000 was seized by police this morning

Fifty mature cannabis plants were found in the outbuilding of a property in Stilebridge Lane, Marden.

Almost all of them were ready to be harvested.

Police discovered the cannabis plants when they were searching the property for stolen goods.

A 37 year-old man from Maidstone was arrested on suspicion of burglary and cultivating cannabis. At the time of writing he was being held in police custody.

Det Insp Chris Benson from Kent Police said: “This is a substantial amount of cannabis that we got to at just the right time, as the plants were almost ready to be harvested.

“This find means that the cannabis will be destroyed instead of finding its way onto the streets of Kent, and that can only be a good thing.”