Drug dealer inspired by Home Alone rigged house with booby-traps
Ian Claughton used tripwires, pipe bombs, and a homemade flamethrower to protect a £40,000 cannabis grow, leading to a 100-home evacuation in Grimethorpe, police said.
- Ian Claughton, 60, fortified properties with traps to protect his cannabis operation, leading to evacuations.
- Officers found mantraps, firearms, cannabis, amphetamine, imitation guns, a crossbow, and a flamethrower made from a fire extinguisher.
- Claughton and his ex-wife were convicted of drug, weapon, and explosives charges related to the booby-trapped drug den.
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Drug dealer who rigged house with Home Alone-style booby traps seen with flamethrower
Yorkshire drug dealer who rigged house with 'Home Alone' traps jailed
A drug dealer who booby-trapped his house after being inspired by the Christmas comedy Home Alone has been jailed for seven years.Ian Claughton, 60, rigged his South Yorkshire home with tripwires and homemade pipe bombs to protect his drugs business from would-be intruders.He was jailed for seven years at Sheffield Crown Court by Judge Graham Reeds on Tuesday, who said he was “a drug dealer who used these weapons to protect his cannabis growing …
Drug dealer rigged house 'Home Alone' style with flamethrowers, trip wires and explosives - The Mirror
Paranoid cannabis and amphetamine dealer Ian Claughton and his wife Lesley rigged their home with trip wires, explosives, flamethrowers and firearms to deter cannabis thieves
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