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Cannabis farm in building neighbouring police station

BBC The outside of the disused building with other shops beside itBBC
The disused building being used to farm cannabis was on a main shopping street, four doors down from the police station

A cannabis farm with more than 400 plants has been discovered four doors down from a police station.

A warrant was executed at the former Co-op on Sycamore Street in Newcastle Emlyn on the Carmarthenshire/Ceredigion border on Wednesday evening.

About 435 cannabis plants were seized, along with growing equipment.

Dyfed-Powys Police said no arrests had been made but officers remained in the area as inquiries continued.

The smell of cannabis had been noticed by people in the area, with one woman who works in the town saying: "I'm not surprised, I've been smelling it for at least a month."

Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn said large vacant premises in town centres are a "very lucrative opportunity... for a cannabis cultivation to be produced in that location, sort of hidden in plain sight".

"The fact it was very close to the police station just highlights how these organised crime groups are quite brazen," he said.