The Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia carried out the 'Corpus' operation in Archena, which resulted in the arrest of two people and the dismantling of an active marijuana cultivation and handling point. In the operation, the Benemérita Citizen Security Prevention troops seized 141 marijuana plants and 22 kilograms of buds ready for imminent distribution, all the effects related to the illicit activity and several weapons.
The actions began a few months ago, when the Civil Guard resumed a previously opened investigation into an alleged marijuana crop in a home in Archena, located very close to an educational center and a playground, events that had generated some social alarm. among the neighbors.
The agents then established a discreet surveillance device on the property where it was presumed that a greenhouse could be installed for the illicit cultivation of 'indoor' marijuana. As a result of the investigation, the civil guards identified the two residents of the house, a man and a woman who were a couple, who were allegedly behind the criminal activity.
Dozens of troops by land and air
Once all the necessary evidence was obtained, the Civil Guard designed the exploitation phase of the operation, which was made up of several dozen troops by land and air due to the violent background of one of the suspects.
Upon entry and the search carried out at the investigated home, the civil guards found a greenhouse installed in several rooms of the property, with capacity for the cultivation of approximately a thousand plants per year, which at that time was in the final phase of cultivation 141 floors. In another room, used as a drying room and for handling drugs, 22 kilograms of buds were found ready for imminent distribution.
Weapons seized.
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Along with all the drugs, the Civil Guard seized all the elements that made up the clandestine greenhouse and the drying room, such as lighting, heating, irrigation and ventilation devices, as well as three firearms – a shotgun with the serial number erased and with ammunition and two compressed air rifles – and two large, machete-type bladed weapons.
The search culminated in the arrest of the two suspects as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of growing or manufacturing drugs, fraud of electrical fluid – due to an illicit connection to the electrical grid – and illicit possession of weapons. Those arrested, the drugs, the effects seized and the proceedings carried out were placed at the disposal of the competent judicial authority.
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