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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.

The squatter emerges with the bag of drugs (SWNS)
The squatter emerges with the bag of drugs (SWNS)

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 police officer gives chase (SWNS)
The police officer gives chase (SWNS)

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.

The man drops the bag (SWNS)
The man drops the bag (SWNS)

“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.

The police officer confronts a member of the public (SWNS)
The police officer confronts a member of the public (SWNS)

“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”.