Police have raided yet another suspected drug house - this time at Mayfield.
Officers executed a search warrant on a home in Carrington Street yesterday afternoon, allegedly uncovering a sophisticated hydroponic growing operation with more than 60 Cannabis plants and 5 kilograms of the drug being dried in 3 bedrooms.
It's also alleged the fuse box at the house had been tampered with.
Police stopped a 66-year-old man as he was leaving the house and searched his car allegedly finding cash and cannabis inside.
He's been refused bail to front Newcastle Local Court today charged with cultivating and supplying a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, goods in custody suspected of being the proceeds of crime and altering or add to an electricity installation.
It's the 3rd suspected drug house uncovered in the Hunter this week.
