Police called to an ongoing burglary found the house door smashed and cannabis plants strewn over the steps, Bradford Crown Court heard today.
Inside the address in Maidstone Street, Bradford Moor, officers found a Vietnamese man with designer clothing, two phones and £86 in cash.
Today, Le Van-Le, 39, of no fixed address, was imprisoned for two years and seven months after pleading guilty to production of cannabis.
Recorder Michael Fanning said that although Van-Le, an illegal immigrant, had at first suggested he was trafficked to the country “he now no longer suggests that he was a slave in the enterprise.”
Prosecutor Adam Walker said that the police were called to the house at 9.50pm on February 1 after reports that three men in balaclavas had broken in and were carrying out plants.