Albanian Man Jailed Again for Cannabis Operation

0:00It's April 2. From your city to your ears, this is Lester News today, powered by AI, I'm Cory with the story. A 33-year-old Albanian man named Claudio Leechi just got hit with another jail term for running a cannabis operation in Lester. This comes only three years after he served 12 months for the exact same crime. Lester's Shahr police raided a house on 2 to road on March 4, busting him with 77 plants in the backyard and half a kilo of harvested. He died. Officers forced the door open and found the place looking freshly painted, like nothing was up. But they uncovered lights, filters, transformers, and other gear stashed and covered in underbeds. Leechi was asleep upstairs when they nabbed him, fresh out of his last prison stint. He opened up in his interview, saying he still owe 20,000 pounds to the smugglers who got him across the channel in a dinghy back in 20. 23. His lawyer pointed out trouble just keeps finding him here, and he couldn't figure why he wasn't deported after round 1.

1:00All his families back in southeast Albania. Leechi hit Magistrate's court the next day, March 5, pleading guilty to producing the class B drug. Then on April 2nd, at Crown Court, prosecutors laid out how the house screamed large-scale setup before the cover of job. The judge called it a relatively sophisticated grow, bummed up the sentence because of his repeat offense, but noted he was just a cog in someone. Plus his machine. Leechi signed papers to get sent home for good.