Alanya Merkez İlçe Jandarma Komutanlığı teams, coordinated by the Alanya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, raided a home in Yaylalı Mahallesi, Alanya, Antalya province, at dawn after technical and physical surveillance targeting drug trafficking.[1] The teams carried out the raid at dawn as a simultaneous operation against the identified address as part of work against drug trafficking.[2] Officers detained 39-year-old suspect Metin K. during the raid on the address in Yaylalı Mahallesi.[2][3][4]

After his procedures at the gendarmerie, officers transferred the suspect to the Alanya courthouse under security measures.[5][3] The on-duty court remanded Metin K. on a charge of committing drug trafficking and sent him to Alanya L-Type Closed Prison.[2][3][4] Officers searched the house and its outbuildings and seized 1 kilogram of dried esrar obtained from the cannabis plant, and the seized drug was confiscated.[5][3][4]

Gendarmerie investigators determined that he had grown the cannabis in a wooded area, harvested it and brought it home to dry.[1] The gendarmerie described the work as part of its continued efforts to prevent drug trafficking under the coordination of the prosecutor’s office.[5]