Moment two crooks are caught by police after climbing roof of their £44K cannabis farm in bid to escape raiding officers

• Ledjon Petku and Alban Muca were jailed six months for producing cannabis

This is the moment two crooks trying to evade raiding officers were caught by police by climbing on the roof of their cannabis farm.

Bodycam footage shows police using a battering ram to break down the front door of a home in Peterborough. Half a dozen officers charged into the property shouting, ‘police, show yourselves,’ before carrying out a search of the home.

Ledjon Petku, 19, and 22-year-old Alban Muca attempted to escape the raid by standing on top the roof, but police managed to climb up and arrest them.

Officers found 53 cannabis plants – with an estimated street value of £44,520 – being grown in the basement of the home.

Petku and Muca have admitted to producing cannabis. The pair appeared at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court last week and were sentenced to six months in prison.

Ledjon Petku, 19, and 22-year-old Alban Muca (circled) attempted to escape a police raid of their makeshift cannabis factory by standing on top the roof of their home in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough last month. But their bid was unsuccessful and they were arrested

As officers entered the property, Petku and Muca climbed into the loft and up on to the roof through a hatch (pictured), but police persuaded the pair to come back inside the home

Officers found 53 cannabis plants (pictured) – with an estimated street value of £44,520 – being grown in the basement of the home. The court heard that multiple rooms within the home had been converted to grow the plants, causing ‘extensive’ damage to the property

Officers executed a search warrant at a home in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough on November 14 after it had been suspected that the property was being used as a cannabis factory.

As officers entered the property, Petku and Muca climbed into the loft and up on to the roof through a hatch.

Responding officers persuaded the pair to come back inside the home, where they were then arrested on suspicion of producing cannabis, The Peterborough Telegraph reported.

The court heard that multiple rooms within the home had been converted to grow cannabis, causing ‘extensive’ damage to the property. 

‘The destruction that had happened to that house in order for it to be changed into a cannabis factory is extensive and will cost the homeowner a substantial amount for it to be restored,’ Det Con Matthew Walker, who investigated, said.

‘Cannabis factories are an issue to all communities, we as a force are continually working on tackling and disrupting them to ensure the drugs are taken off the streets and the people involved are brought to justice, anyone with information or concerns about drugs should report it to us.’

The pair were sentenced to six months in prison on November 29. 

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