Police raid home as dog wrongly smells cannabis
December 28th, 2011 - 12:00 am ICT by IANSLondon, Dec 27 (IANS) A middle-class couple were stunned after their house was raided by police following a sniffer dog’s mistake of suspecting them of growing cannabis in their garden.
Chris and Anne Vincent, a respectable couple in their late 50s, answered the door of their village home to find police demanding access to their garden, the Daily Mail reported.
Police dogs picked up the waft of cannabis coming from the Vincents’ flower bed in the Warwickshire village of Bidford-on-Avon.
Neighbours had reported how streams of local teenagers had been knocking on the couple’s door asking to buy marijuana.
As the couple allowed the drug squad into their detached home, the mystery was solved.
The source of the smell was not marijuana plants but a common evergreen Moss Phlox, a five-petalled flower in hues of blue and pink.
Chris, a shopkeeper by profession, said: “My wife’s a keen gardener. When we bought the house, the plant was already there - but then it grew and grew.”
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