This hydroponic lab was found in a home in Flamingo Vlei. Photo: SAPS

It was something in the air that got a young man from Table View busted. The 18-year-old was arrested on Friday after members of the public alerted the police to the smell of dagga coming from a house in a complex in Flamingo Vlei.

When Constables Lubabalo Makhubalo and Mzukisi Siximba arrived at the house at 3 pm they “could smell this odour,” says the spokesperson for Table View police, Captain Adriana Chandler. The police found a hydroponic dagga laboratory consisting of containers, dagga plants, aluminium lamps, fans, chemical masks and other paraphernalia in one of the bedrooms. The man appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of Cultivation of Cannabis Sativa.