Two men who were caught tending to a cannabis farm at the former Haunted Museum in Mapperley have been jailed.
Nicolae Dumitru and David Moore were both inside the disused property on Woodborough Road when police forced the door open.
Rows upon rows of plants were found growing across three rooms within the property – with 284 eventually counted and dismantled.
Two further empty rooms had also been prepared for grows, while the electricity was also found to have been bypassed.
Dumitru and Moore had been living at the Woodborough Road based site, which had previously been used as the Haunted Museum and cinema.
The Haunted Museum shut its doors back in July 2021 before owners moved the attraction to a city centre site.
The warrant on the morning of April 3, 2024 came after months and months of planning and involved several teams from Nottinghamshire Police.
Having pleaded guilty to producing cannabis, Dumitru, 35, and Moore, 27, appeared at Nottingham Crown Court to be sentenced on Monday (16).
The cannabis growers, both of no fixed address, were jailed for 18 months apiece.
Following Dumitru and Moore’s sentencing, PC Tom Griffiths, of Nottinghamshire Police, said he was ‘very happy’ with the result.
“This is the culmination of many months of hard work across multiple teams at Nottinghamshire Police,” he said.
“This was just a fantastic example of our different policing teams working in tandem to get a positive result and put two criminals behind bars, so I’d like to thank all of those involved for their efforts.”
