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ISSUE NO. 1758
14 - 20 March 2019
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Cannabis clubs TWENTY-ONE people with eight different nationalities have been arrested by Guardia Civil officers from Torrevieja for allegedly belonging to a criminal narcotic drugs organisation that used legal cannabis associations as a front for their own illegal business. The Special Anti-Drugs Prosecutor’s Office for Alicante Province petitioned an investigation to determine whether any crimes against public health were related to the sudden surge in the number of cannabis associations which had opened in Torrevieja, and the rise in their membership numbers. It was discovered that people around the Paseo Maritimo area, interested in buying narcotic substances, were taken to one of the cannabis associations under investigation and the transaction was carried out there. When police raided the association, they discovered a sizeable marihuana plantation, with numerous plants in different stages of maturity. Seven people were arrested, including the club’s two owners. Another line of investigation led to a second drugs organisation, headed by four
TORREVIEJA: Police raided the associations and subequent arrests were made. Torrevieja cannabis clubs, which were all owned by a British couple living in Torrevieja. In total, five cannabis associations and two private properties were raided, which ended up with
€40,627 in cash being seized as well as 1,012 grams of methamphetamines, 24,800 grams of marihuana, 4,446 grams of hashish, 541 grams of hashish oil and 11,641 grams of cannabis derivatives
amongst other items. Seventeen men, aged 25 and 57, and four women, 28 to 48, have been arrested, with the British couple remanded in custody as the alleged ringleaders of the whole operation.
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