Covasna: 60 cannabis plants and 5.4 kg seized from indoor grow, man held
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.
🇷🇴 Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna · Romania
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Arrested
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Plants destroyed
60
Cannabis
5.4 kg
Prosecutors and police in Covasna county said a 62-year-old Sfântu Gheorghe man ran an indoor
cannabis grow in 2026 to supply the black market.[1][2]On 1 October they searched his home
and seized 60 plants in various stages of growth and 5.4 kilograms of cannabis packed in nine
vacuum-sealed bags.[1][2]
DIICOT Covasna ordered his detention for risk-drug trafficking and, on 2 October, asked the
Covasna court to hold him in preventive arrest for 30 days, according to the police communiqué
carried by AGERPRES.[2]Digi24 quoted DIICOT saying the same cultivation timeline but did not
name him.[1]
Romanian law treats risk-drug trafficking seriously; neither outlet reported a sentence.[1][2]
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Cannabis plants Romanian investigators seized in Sfântu Gheorghe, October 2026. Source: Digi24 · archived copy
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