Cheeky squatter tries to run off with huge bag of cannabis as police raid mansion
This is the moment a brazen squatter tried to run off with a huge bag of cannabis as police were raiding a £15m mansion
The house in Grosvenor Gardens, which is next to Buckingham Palace, was being used a drugs factory to grow £500,000 worth of weed before police shut it down this morning.
Officers were loading a police lorry with seized equipment when the squatter attempted the risqué move.
In the video, the man can be seen dashing out of the door with a huge sackful of drugs and turning a corner.
An officer gives chase and the man drops the bag, leaving it behind as he escapes.
In the video, one of the police officers appears to then hit another man with a truncheon before his colleague intervenes.
Around 30 bags of suspected drugs were seized from the five-storey empty property at 1 Grosvenor Gardens at around 7.30am on Friday morning.
The raid was filmed by another group of squatters who live opposite at number four, a seven-storey building worth £25million.
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It is believed to be the same group who were evicted after nine days from a £15million mansion in Eaton Square, owned by Russian oligarch Andrey Goncharenko.
Squatter Tom Fox, 23, filmed police outside and said: “We saw coppers coming out with cameras and a tripod. We presumed it was surveillance on our squat.
“Then later the truck was outside with a copper guarding it so I went to check it out, and overheard a copper saying to another, ‘Wanna see a £500k grow op?”
“We then saw the grow equipment so went back to the squat and gathered troops.
“The police took out maybe 30 or so bags, I don’t know who was growing, looking at the plants they seem mature, maybe two months?
“There were two uniformed at the van, I think two uniformed inside, also specialist drugs officers.
“After the event, all manner of police turned up including armed SO19.”
Police confirmed that a raid was carried out on an address in Grosvenor Gardens at around 7.45am.
A Met Police spokesman said: ‘We can confirm that a drugs raid took place on Friday morning at 7.45am on a drugs warrant.
“We need to get details clarified by the officers who attended”.