Officers from the National Police and the Motril Customs Surveillance Service raided a farm of almost 13,000 square metres in a remote area of Albondón, in the province of Granada, on the morning of 4 August 2025.[1] The investigation, dubbed Operation Plastic, was run jointly by the Motril customs unit and the Motril National Police narcotics brigade after they established that cannabis was being grown and processed there.[1]
As the search began, officers spotted two men who had been seen maintaining the plantation; the pair fled but were caught metres away and taken back to the greenhouse.[1] Inside the nearly 6,000-square-metre greenhouse, almost a third of the floor held Cannabis sativa plants ranging from cuttings to advanced flowering, suggesting continuous year-round cultivation, with almost 3,300 plants found in total.[1] An annex served both as lodging for the greenhouse workers and as a room where the cannabis was processed for distribution.[1]
Four men were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking: two Spaniards aged 50 and 23, and two Albanian brothers aged 36 and 28.[1] The seized drugs were valued at more than 1.6 million euros at wholesale prices on the illicit market.[1]
