Police investigating former EPL player for growing industrial marijuana
The marijuana plantation at Pennant's home in the exclusive Hale Road area was discovered by chance by YouTuber Lukka Ventures
Former English footballer Jermaine Pennant, who played for Arsenal, Liverpool and Real Zaragoza among many other teams, is being investigated by the police after a man accidentally discovered an industrial marijuana production plantation in a mansion he owned.
Pennant, who bought the house worth more than three million euros in 2006 when he was playing for Liverpool, said he was shocked by the discovery.
The mansion, which was built in 1930 and has a pond, tennis court, jacuzzi and indoor swimming pool, had been uninhabited since Pennant split from his partner Alice Goodwin in 2020, according to The Sun.
The Daily Mail reports that a drug gang occupied Pennant's mansion as a production centre for their illegal activities.
The marijuana plantation at Pennant's home in the exclusive Hale Road area was discovered by chance by YouTuber Lukka Ventures, who snuck into the mansion to film and shared his video on YouTube.
"Guys, we just broke into a massive cannabis grow at the home of a former footballer.... wow, this is former footballer Jermaine Pennant's house and look at the mountains of weed everywhere," he said.
"There's so much stuff that it stinks."
The images show electrical installations, dozens of flower pots, pipes, covered windows, black bags full of marijuana and materials for growing and storing drugs.
Pennant was at Real Zaragoza in the 2009/10 season, in which he played 24 games.
Of his time in Spain, the English footballer spoke more about his nightlife and off the pitch than his performance on the pitch.
"The nightlife was very bad, it was like going out among students, almost everyone was very young," he later told the Periodico de Aragon.
"That's why we took advantage of it on the road.
"I got on the nerves of all my coaches, poor Marcelino. He was tough, severe, sometimes he was quick to anger, but I liked him a lot, he was great.
"I remember him coming up to me and saying 'How are those Spanish lessons going?' And I couldn't hold back my laughter and I'd nod at him."
