A police officer has narrowly avoided serious injury from a booby trap after detectives raided an alleged cannabis warehouse, seizing around $2 million in drugs.

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Live wires and other booby traps were allegedly discovered in a Cheltenham factory, in Melbourne's southeast suburbs, after police searched the property on September 24.

Police arrest cannabis trafficking suspect. Picture supplied

Victoria Police said the traps could be "deadly when stood on, with one officer narrowly avoiding injury - or worse".

Police seized more than 500 cannabis plants of varying maturity in the f

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