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Police seized a makeshift incubator used for growing marijuana plants in a raid on a public housing flat in Hong Kong on Monday. A 42-year-old man and his mother were arrested.
Police said they confiscated a tent converted into an incubator from inside the flat, along with 10 cannabis plants, a UV light, a ventilation system and fertilisers. The haul had an estimated street value of HK$9,000 (US$1,147).
It was one of two public housing flats raided by police to seize illegal drugs in the space of an hour on Monday night.
Officers raided the flat on Heng On Estate in Ma On Shan at about 8pm on Monday.
Inside the apartment, they arrested the man and his 68-year-old mother on suspicion of cultivating cannabis plants and possessing illegal drugs.
Police were investigating whether the seized cannabis was for the suspects’ own consumption.