POLICE found a cannabis factory at a house.... after neighbours reported it being burgled.
Officers were called to Walnut Close, Laindon at about 3.45pm on December 27 after residents spotted a strange man going in to a property which they believed was empty.
Police arrived and went in to the house but discovered the man was living there.
However while they were in the house they discovered a cultivation of eight cannabis plants in a bedroom.
A 39-year-old man, of Walnut Close in Laindon was handed a police caution and the plants have been seized.
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