By Cathy Elelman • Published: 30 Aug 2019 • 23:30
RAIDS: Guardia Civil found nearly 16,000 marijuana plants (inset 1), most of them hidden on false roofs accesible by ladder only (inset 2). CREDIT: Almeria Guardia Civil
GUARDIA Civil seized nearly 16,000 marijuana plants from a major illegal cultivation set-up uncovered in El Ejido. Some 150 Guardia Civil officers were involved in the raids on 20 properties and 10 greenhouses in the El Pozo de la Tía Manolica area. The 12 hours of Operation Pozo Green searches also unearthed 120 illegal connections to the power supply, three shotguns, three pistols and nearly €60,000 in cash. There were 20 arrests. The Guardia reported that most of the marijuana plants had been hidden under plastic in false upper floors accessible only by ladders.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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