"On Tuesday, officers said they had arrested a 70-year-old man on suspicion of allowing the property to be used for the supply of cannabis before releasing him on bail.
A 38-year-old man, arrested on suspicion of supplying cannabis, was released but remains under investigation.
While Plas Glynllifon limped on as a visitor attraction, 23,000-square-foot The Flass in Cumbria was left derelict after falling into the hands of a new owner who acquired it as part of a divorce settlement.
Originally built by tea and opium traders Lancelot and Wilkinson Dent of Dent & Co in the mid-19th century, the mansion was rented for a bargain £5,000 a month to a London-based drugs gang, who filled its 52 rooms with a cannabis crop worth an estimated £5million.
When police raided the house in the quiet village of Maulds Meaburn, they discovered ducting, cabling and other equipment believed to have been used to cultivate more than 260kg of cannabis."
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