Innocent five-year-old girl's prank call to police 'accidentally exposes her mother's cannabis crop'
- A five-year-old girl in NSW called police before she suddenly hung up the phone
- Triple-0 operator was concerned so sent police for a welfare check at the home
- Officers allegedly found 15 cannabis plants in the 30-year-old mother's garage
- Police have since learned that the woman's daughter's phone call was a prank
A five-year-old girl who prank called police allegedly led officers to her mother's cannabis plants in their garage.
The infant is believed to have called police just after midnight on Tuesday before she hung up the phone.
Police immediately rushed to the girl's home on Elm Street in Albion Park Rail, on the New South Wales South Coast in order to make a welfare check.
But officers allege that the girl's call lead them to finding the crop.
A five-year-old girl's prank call to police allegedly led to her mother's cannabis plants being found (stock)
'Officers knocked on the door but couldn't raise the occupants before noticing a light on in the garage,' a spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia.
'Once inside police allegedly discovered 15 hydroponic cannabis plants.'
The 30-year-old woman was arrested and is now helping police with their investigation.
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Officers expect to charge the woman with cultivating a small quantity of a prohibited plant.
The plants were seized for forensic examination.
'Police understand the Triple-0 call was a prank made by a five-year-old girl,' the spokeswoman said.
Police immediately rushed to the girl's home on Elm Street in Albion Park Rail, on the New South Wales South Coast after she suddenly hung up the phone on them (street pictured)
Lake Illawarra Police District Sergeant Peter Northey told the Illawarra Mercury the case was highly unusual.
'In my 18 years of policing, this is the first time that this sort of circumstance has happened, but we're really grateful that it did happen,' he said.
He said drug possession is a serious crime and encouraged anyone with information to come forward.
