Mindaugas Damaesvicius was living at the property in Bradford when police raided it following a tip off that the house was being used to grow cannabis.
Their intelligence suggested someone was being held against their will at the terraced house.
Bradford Crown Court heard that Damaesvicius, who is from Lithuania, opened the door to officers as they were attempting to gain entry to the house on Back Lane in Heaton in January 2023.
There they found two of the rooms had been given over to cannabis growing in what was described as a relatively sophisticated operation.
One room contained 24 mature plants, and the other was operated as a drying room with recently harvested cannabis plant covering four of six tiers of a drying net.
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