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Police Seize Cannabis and Weapons Cache at Burggen Farm

Investigators uncovered professional cannabis cultivation equipment; a loaded unregistered firearm; explosive materials; prohibited weapons at the suspect's property.

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Overview

  • Kriminalpolizei Weilheim executed a June 3 search warrant at a Burggen farm with support from Murnau reinforcement units and the Weilheim-Schongau district office
  • Officers confiscated more than 2.5 kilograms of ready-to-sell marijuana, hashish, packaging materials, roughly €1,000 in cash and a cultivation setup with about a dozen cannabis plants
  • Authorities seized five blank-firing guns, a loaded unregistered firearm, knuckle dusters and spring knives during the operation
  • Expired pyrotechnics, gunpowder, propellant chemicals and other explosive materials prompted the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office’s Technical Special Group to secure the volatile substances
  • The 37-year-old suspect remains in custody under investigation by Kriminalpolizei Weilheim and the Munich II Public Prosecutor’s Office for alleged narcotics, firearms and explosives violations after the district office deemed him unreliable and seized his legally owned weapons and ammunition