Four sentenced over 620 kg of hashish found with pomegranates on Ängelholm farm
Swedish Customs found about 620 kg of hashish hidden with pomegranates on a farm outside Ängelholm in October 2024. Three people were jailed for five to eight years and a fourth was given probation for money laundering, as reported on 11 August 2025.
In October 2024, Swedish Customs officers raided a farm outside Ängelholm in
Skåne and found about 620 kilograms of hashish hidden in cardboard boxes
together with pomegranates.[1]Three people were later convicted of extremely
serious narcotics offences and sentenced to prison terms of between five and
eight years.[1]A fourth person was convicted of money laundering connected
with the case and sentenced to probation.[1]
The sentences were reported on 11 August 2025.[1]The account describes the
raid and the convictions without naming the people involved.[1]
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Police in Kungsbacka arrested a woman in her 30s after watching a carrier bag of drugs handed to her and finding more drugs and packaging in her home. She admitted the offence and has been sentenced to four years in prison for aggravated narcotics crime.
Helsingborg District Court sentenced eight people over a Billesholm flat used as a hash factory that mixed hemp with cannabis into branded hash cakes. Police found almost 19 kilos of cannabis resin at the first flat, while imported synthetic cannabinoids handled by the same network are excluded from the cannabis total.
Östersund District Court has tried four men over the transport of cannabis to northern Norway, in a case that began when police in Östersund stopped a car with just under 2 kg of suspected cannabis in the luggage. The men's alleged offences involved buying the cannabis in Gothenburg and carrying it through Sweden to Norway, where prosecutors said it was sold on.
Norrköping District Court sentenced a 23-year-old from the city to two years and three months in prison for a gross drug offence after he stored just over 116 grams of cocaine and 218 grams of cannabis. He admitted the offence, and the court found that the information he gave about the dealers he owed money to did not affect his sentence.
Charged 1Cannabis 218 gPrison 2 years and 3 months
