Cluj: two men held over outdoor cannabis plot in Florești
DIICOT Cluj and organised-crime police detained two men aged 49 and 51 on 22 October 2026 after documenting an outdoor cannabis grow in Florești meant for sale. Searches seized 20 plants up to three metres tall plus packaged cannabis; a judge ordered 30-day preventive arrest for both.
🇷🇴 Florești, Cluj · Romania
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Cluj organised-crime police and DIICOT prosecutors documented an outdoor cannabis cultivation
in Florești during 2026 and detained two local men, aged 49 and 51, on 22 October.[1][2]Investigators seized 20 plants between one and three metres tall and additional cannabis in
bags and containers found during house searches, along with grinders and other evidence.[1][2]
Both were held for risk-drug trafficking and a Cluj rights judge ordered 30-day preventive
arrest on 23 October, AGERPRES reported in the national police communiqué.[1][2]
DIICOT and Covasna organised-crime police searched a home in Sfântu Gheorghe on 1 October 2026 and seized 60 indoor cannabis plants and 5.4 kilograms in vacuum bags from a 62-year-old man they said had grown the crop for sale throughout 2026. Prosecutors detained him and asked a court for 30-day preventive arrest.
DIICOT prosecutors and organised-crime police carried out five searches after finding a cannabis plantation in an isolated area outside Berzovia, run by four suspects aged 19 to 53 who bought seeds from Spain. The four were taken for questioning.
Border police and DIICOT detained four men aged 29 to 43 on 8 September 2026 over an organized group that allegedly imported cannabis seeds from Czechia by courier and ran indoor grows in Singureni, Giurgiu, seizing more than 90 plants and about 42 kg of cannabis material; a judge ordered 30 days' preventive arrest.
On 14 August 2026 DIICOT and organized-crime police caught two men tending an outdoor cannabis plot in extravilan Lipova on the Mureș, seizing 101 plants weighing about 65 kg of green material; both were detained and a judge later ordered 30 days' preventive arrest.
