Three people have been charged after police seized more than 800 cannabis plants and a gun in raids on alleged crop houses in Melbourne.
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Melton Crime Investigation Unit detectives arrested two men and a woman during the week-long operation.
Police executed search warrants at eight homes in the Brookfield, Melton West, Rockbank, Caroline Springs and Burnside Heights areas, as part of Operation Neckties, between Monday and Friday, seizing 837 cannabis plants and a gun.
A 53-year-old Melton West woman was arrested at a Melton West house on Wednesday.
She was remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates' Court on March 8 on charges including cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis, trafficking cannabis and theft.
Investigators arrested a 26-year-old man at his Caroline Springs home on Thursday.
He was charged and bailed to appear at Sunshine Magistrates' Court on March 19 to face a number of charges including cultivating cannabis, trafficking cannabis and theft.
Detectives also seized a small number of plants from a Burnside Heights home on Friday morning arresting a 31-year-old man.
He has been bailed to appear at Sunshine Magistrates' Court on March 23 on charges including cultivating cannabis, and theft.
Police say the investigation is ongoing and more arrests are likely.
