Police find three tonnes of cannabis in lettuce lorry on A36
French anti-drug police found about three tonnes of cannabis resin and more than 200kg of marijuana leaves hidden among lettuce crates in a lorry searched at an A36 motorway toll station on 14 December 2017. The Spanish driver and an alleged scout-car driver were detained in Bayonne; police put the haul's street value at six million euros.
French anti-drug police seized about three tonnes of cannabis from a lorry
transporting lettuce at a toll station on the A36 motorway in eastern France
on Thursday 14 December 2017.[1][2]The consignment was cannabis resin, and
officers also found more than 200 kilograms of marijuana leaves hidden among
the lettuce crates.[1][2]Police put the street value of the haul at six
million euros.[1][2]
The seizure was disclosed on Saturday by sources speaking to the AFP news
agency.[1]The lorry’s 60-year-old Spanish driver was detained, along with
a second driver who police allege was driving a scout car ahead of the
lorry.[1]Both men were held at a police station in Bayonne, in the French
Basque country, and were due to appear in court the following Monday.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Cannabis
3 t
Value (official estimate)
EUR 6,000,000
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
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