Guardia Civil officers detained two men travelling in a car in Calasparra as alleged perpetrators of a drug-trafficking offence against public health.[1] Officers stopped the car, occupied by a driver and a passenger, at a preventive citizen-security checkpoint in the municipality’s industrial estate in order to identify the two occupants.[1] While identifying them, officers noticed a characteristic marijuana smell and then searched the vehicle.[1]
In the boot they found plant material distributed among three glass jars and one metal container, with a total reported weight of 170 grams whose identification as marijuana remains pending laboratory analysis.[2] Officers also seized a digital precision scale, two jerrycans of fertiliser, two containers of agricultural-use soap, a measuring cup and a pocketknife from the car.[2] The combination of finds led officers to suspect the car may have been used as a mobile street-level drug-selling point, described as a hypothesis since the reports record no observed sales during the checkpoint.[2]
The checkpoint operation ended with the detention of both occupants and the removal of the containers and the other related items.[2] Both detainees remain presumed innocent while the laboratory analysis of the substance is pending.[1]
