One detained after 30 cannabis plants found in Çamlıhemşin hotel room
Police in Çamlıhemşin, Rize province, found 30 cannabis plants in 29 pots in a private room at an apart hotel, fitted with automatic watering and climate control. A man identified only as E.A. was detained; the Anadolu Agency said his police processing continued, while DHA reported he was referred to the courthouse.
Police in Çamlıhemşin, Rize province, detained a man identified only as E.A.
after finding 30 cannabis plants, known in Turkish as Hint keneviri, in a
private room at an apart hotel.[1]Officers from the provincial anti-narcotics
branch and the Çamlıhemşin district police launched the operation after a tip
about drug dealing at the apart hotel.[2]The search found that the room had
been converted into a cannabis greenhouse, the DHA news agency reported.[3]
The 30 plants had been sown in 29 pots.[2]Officers also found ventilation,
heating, liquid fertiliser, humidity and temperature meters, and fluorescent
lamps in the room, along with similar equipment.[2]
The Anadolu Agency reported that his processing at the police station was still
continuing.[2]The DHA news agency reported that he had been referred to the
courthouse.[1]
Photos and video
Cannabis plants sown in 29 pots inside the private room of the apart hotel, photographed during the police search. Photo: DHAPhoto details
The reports give no separate date for the search; 26 July 2018 is the publication date of the earliest accounts.
No weight, area or estimated value was published for the 30 plants.
The Anadolu Agency account carried by Haber7 said E.A.'s police processing was continuing, while DHA reported that he had been referred to the courthouse; no charge, detention order or court outcome was published.
The reports do not say whether the 30 plants were destroyed or kept as evidence.
Haber7 carries an Anadolu Agency dispatch and Hürriyet and Sözcü carry the same DHA dispatch, so the accounts rest on two agencies rather than independent reporting by the outlets.
The same reports describe a separate police operation in central Rize involving two suspects, which is left out here.
A second DHA photograph on the Sözcü page carries a caption about projectors and fans in the room but an image alt text referring to the separate 57 kg seizure, so it is not linked here.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Sözcü: DHA reported that the room had automatic watering and climate control, that projectors and fans had been installed, and that the cannabis was dried there.
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