Czech man suspected of growing six cannabis plants by a railway in Nelahozeves
A 29-year-old man from Mělník told police he grew six cannabis plants beside the railway track in Nelahozeves in two crops in 2021. Police stopped the car he was travelling in, seized 1,266 grams of freshly harvested marijuana and notified him of suspicion of illegal drug production, which carries one to five years if charged and convicted.
🇨🇿 Nelahozeves, Mělník District · Czechia
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- Plants destroyed
- 6
- Cannabis
- 1.3 kg
A 29-year-old man from Mělník confessed to police that he grew cannabis beside the railway track in Nelahozeves in at least two crops in 2021.[1] On Thursday 6 January 2022, Mělník criminal investigators notified him that he was suspected of the illegal production and other handling of narcotic and psychotropic substances and poisons.[1]
Between April and July 2021 he germinated three plants at home, transplanted them into flowerpots and took them to the railway track, where he watered them and let them grow.[1] In July he harvested them and used them himself, smoking the marijuana and making an ointment from the leftover leaves.[1] He repeated the process between July and September 2021, growing and harvesting three more plants, and this time asked a friend to pick him up and drive him away with the harvest.[1]
Police stopped and checked the car during that drive and found the freshly harvested marijuana with him.[1] Officers seized it and sent it to the criminalistics and expertise unit (OKTE) in Kladno, whose expert opinion confirmed 1,266 grams of cannabis plant.[1] He faces one to five years in prison if he is charged and convicted.[1]
Sources
- Devětadvacetiletý muž pěstoval konopí u železniční trati. Bezpečné město Kralupy nad Vltavou, 21 January 2022. In Czech.
Open questions the AI reported
- The exact date of the traffic stop and seizure is not given; it fell between July and September 2021, during the second crop. The 6 January 2022 date is when police notified the man of suspicion.
- The source does not say whether the man was later formally charged, tried or convicted.
- The 1,266 grams came from the second crop; the first three plants were harvested and used by the man before the stop.
- The account rests on one police statement, signed by spokesman Capt. Pavel Truxa and republished by the Kralupy nad Vltavou safe-city portal; no independent second report of the case was found.