Mossos seize 656 cannabis plants in home facing a Gavà school
Mossos d'Esquadra officers found 656 cannabis plants in the upper floor of a home facing an infant and primary school in Gavà on 28 October 2026, where a couple aged 24 and 22 lived downstairs with two young children. They arrested the man, later released because of his childcare duties, and reported his partner as an alleged co-author.
🇪🇸 Gavà, Baix Llobregat, Barcelona · Spain
- Arrested
- 1
- Plants destroyed
- 656
Mossos d’Esquadra, Catalonia’s regional police force, dismantled an indoor
cannabis plantation of 656 plants in a home facing an infant and primary school
in Gavà, in the Baix Llobregat district, on 28 October 2026.[1][2][3] A couple aged
24 and 22 lived on the ground floor with their two minor children, one of them a
month old.[1][3] Officers arrested the 24-year-old man as the alleged author of a
crime against public health and another of electricity fraud.[1][3] The man’s
detention was later lifted after he gave a statement at a police station,
because of his obligation to care for the children.[1][4][2]
The investigation began with several complaints from neighbours about possible
illegal activity in the home.[1][4][2] Officers from the Gavà investigation unit
carried out the entry and search.[1][3] The upper floor was used entirely for the
cannabis plantation, while the couple and the two children lived below.[5] The
plants were in an advanced stage of growth.[5] Officers also found a
fraudulent electricity connection feeding both the grow area and the
ground-floor home.[1] The distribution company confirmed that the electricity
bypassed every authorised meter and recorded high consumption.[1] The Mossos
said they had removed the fraudulent connection.[6] The company’s report said
303,446.4 kWh had been defrauded between 23 July 2025 and 22 July 2026, a loss
it claimed at €74,190.40.[1][3] Officers dismantled and disabled all the
infrastructure used for the cultivation.[1]
The detained man’s partner was reported over the fraudulent electricity installation.[4][2]
Sources
- Los Mossos desmantelan una plantación de 656 plantas de marihuana delante de un colegio en Gavà. El Periódico, 30 October 2026. In Spanish.
- VÍDEO | Las quejas de los vecinos acaban en el desmantelamiento de una plantación de marihuana en Gavà. La Ciutat, 30 October 2026. In Spanish.
- Los Mossos desmantelan una plantación de 656 plantas de marihuana en Gavà. VilaPress, 2 November 2026. In Spanish.
- VÍDEO | Las quejas de los vecinos acaban en el desmantelamiento de una plantación de marihuana en Gavà. La Ciutat, 30 October 2026. In Spanish.
- Desmantelada una plantación de marihuana en una casa de Gavà frente a una escuela. La Vanguardia, 30 October 2026. In Spanish.
- Arran de queixes veïnals sobre un immoble davant d'una escola municipal, investiguem i desmantellem una plantació amb 656 plantes de marihuana. Mossos d'Esquadra (X), 30 October 2026. In Catalan.
Open questions the AI reported
- The Mossos' X post says a young couple was detained, while El Periódico, La Vanguardia and Metrópoli Abierta say only the man was arrested and the woman was placed under investigation; the report follows the press account.
- No weight, cultivated area or street value was published for the 656 plants.
- The €74,190.40 is the electricity distributor's claimed loss from the fraud, not a valuation of the cannabis.
- No court appearance, formal charges or sentence was reported; the man's detention was lifted and the woman remained under investigation.
- The reports do not name the couple or the school.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Metrópoli Abierta: His partner was left under investigation as an alleged co-author of the same offences rather than arrested.
- The La Ciutat page embeds a video, but no playable video address was published, so no video entry was added.
- La Ciutat gives no descriptive caption or credit for the embedded video beyond an internal file identifier.
