Caspe Local Police detained four people for illegally tapping electricity and water at an abandoned farm whose installations were prepared for indoor marijuana cultivation.[1][2] The intervention took place on Tuesday 27 October after officers received a citizen call warning of a possible break-in inside the property.[1][2] On arrival, officers caught two people unloading material while two others had hidden inside the farmhouse on the property.[1]

After ruling out the reported break-in offence, local officers alerted a Guardia Civil patrol that took over the case, and the four Albanian nationals were detained on suspicion of public-health offences and fraud over electricity and water.[1] Inspectors found several areas in an advanced state of preparation for a possible indoor marijuana plantation, with rooms lined in thermal insulation and fitted with specialist grow equipment.[1] The equipment included water tanks with pumps, industrial air conditioners, carbon odour filters, thermohygrometers, LED lighting with supports, digital ballasts, flexible tubing, growing substrate, plant pots and other work material for supplying the plantation.[1][2]

Police found that the four detainees were sleeping at the site and could not document ownership of the farm.[1] The detainees and the case file were placed at the disposal of the judicial authorities.[1]