POLICE have dismantled a "multi-million pound criminal organisation" with the arrest of eight Vietnamese men in a drugs raid.
The arrests were made early this morning, when officers raided a warehouse on an industrial estate in Purfleet.
It followed a lengthy and complex operation carried out by police, who discovered cannabis growing in homes and warehouses across Essex.
The operation included a raid on October 25 when 1,500 cannabis plants were found in a warehouse in Sutton Road, Southend.
The eight men, from Essex and East London, are currently in police custody, on suspicion of growing cannabis.
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