On Thursday morning the Zurich cantonal police carried out house searches in the Dielsdorf district, finding an arsenal of prohibited weapons and an indoor cannabis facility and arresting three people.[1][2] The three provisionally arrested people are two Swiss men and one Swiss woman aged 41 to 43.[1][3] They must answer before the prosecution for, among other things, violations of the weapons law and the narcotics law, with the presumption of innocence applying until a final conviction.[1]

Following prior investigations, the police searched a farm in the Dielsdorf district on behalf of the Winterthur/Unterland public prosecutor’s office.[1][3] In a barn there, officers found a hidden indoor grow with more than 700 marijuana plants, over seven kilograms of ready-to-use packaged marijuana, technical equipment such as lamps and filters, and several thousand francs in cash.[1][3][2] In a second search at the grow operator’s home, officers found an arsenal of prohibited weapons, including a machine pistol with magazines and ammunition, a silencer, an air pistol, a shotgun, a slingshot with arm support, a brass knuckle, a flick knife and various throwing stars and throwing knives.[1][2]

The cash and weapons were seized for the investigating authority, while the drugs and growing equipment were dismantled by a private disposal firm and sent for destruction.[1]