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Spain Dismantles Cannabis Grow Sites and Street Sales Hubs in Coordinated Raids

Authorities describe networks pairing indoor cultivation with street-level retail under judicial oversight.

Overview

  • Police in Aldaia (Valencia) shut down a drug sales point in an occupied home, arresting three people and seizing marijuana, hashish, cocaine, cash, a high-end vehicle, ammunition, a Taser, a baton and a machete.
  • Investigators in the Aldaia case located a Villamarxant chalet used as a stash house and say the ringleader used a luxury car to conceal narcotics, with searches authorized by a judge and the suspects now before the court.
  • The Guardia Civil in Casillas (Murcia) dismantled an indoor greenhouse with 1,000 cannabis plants and one kilogram of buds, arrested two suspects and recovered lighting, HVAC, carbon filters and irrigation equipment following judicial approval to search.
  • In Tarragona, an eight-month probe led to Dec. 17 raids that removed two indoor plantations in Montblanc and Roda de Berà, detained four Albanian nationals aged 27 to 32 and brought charges including trafficking, cultivation, criminal organization and electricity fraud, with pre-trial imprisonment ordered.
  • Guardia Civil estimates from the Tarragona seizures place the cannabis at €142,734 in illicit market value, logistical equipment at €109,973 and fraudulent power consumption at nearly €46,000.