Guardia Civil uproots 4,020 flowering plants by the Mijares at Cirat
On 15 October 2026 the Guardia Civil ROCA team from Burriana dismantled two guerrilla cannabis plantations beside the river Mijares at Cirat, Castellón, counting 2,200 and 1,820 flowering plants — about eight tonnes gross, valued near €2 million. Four people aged 23 to 40 were arrested while cutting buds; agents also took 40 kg of buds in two sacks.
🇪🇸 Cirat, Alto Mijares, Castellón (by the river Mijares) · Spain
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Arrested
4
Plants destroyed
4,020
Cannabis
8 t
Value (official estimate)
EUR 2,000,000
On 15 October 2026 the Guardia Civil’s ROCA team from Burriana dismantled two nearby outdoor
“guerrilla” cannabis plantations by the river Mijares at Cirat in Castellón’s Alto Mijares
comarca.[1][2]Agents counted 2,200 plants at one site and 1,820 at the other, 4,020 in all, in
flower and close to harvest, with a gross weight of about eight tonnes and an illicit-market value
estimated near two million euros.[1][2]
Rudimentary shelters built from local materials had been set up for people watching the crops.[1][2]During a device at the second plantation, officers saw four people aged between 23 and 40 cutting
buds to remove them, arrested them for alleged drug trafficking, and seized two raffia sacks holding
40 kilograms of buds.[1][2]
Guardia Civil dismantled a hidden mountain cannabis complex in Aznalcóllar, seizing 2,500 plants and 50 kg of dried buds and detaining four people. Courts in Sanlúcar la Mayor ordered the four held in prison without bail as alleged members of a criminal organisation.
On 15 October 2026, the Guardia Civil dismantled a hidden cannabis plantation in woodland at Vilopriu, Girona, seized 1,360 kg of cut cannabis and arrested a 34-year-old man living in tents on the site. A judge later released him with bail conditions.
Spanish police destroyed about 415,000 cannabis plants across 11 fields covering 67 hectares in Navarre on 13 April 2022, calling it Europe's largest cannabis plantation. Three people were arrested after an investigation that began in mid-2021.
Spain's Guardia Civil found 135,000 marijuana plants on a 12-hectare holding in Huerta de Valdecarábanos, Toledo, announced 18 October 2021, calling it the largest marijuana plantation found in Europe to date. Wider October raids across Toledo province seized more than 200,000 plants, amid official warnings over illegal farms disguised as hemp.
