643 cannabis plants found in a Burgenlandkreis raid
Police searching a property in Balgstädt, in Saxony-Anhalt's Burgenlandkreis, found a cannabis plantation with 643 plants on 5 August 2026 and provisionally arrested two men aged 30 and 24. Prosecutors in Halle said they would seek arrest warrants.
🇩🇪 Balgstädt, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt · Germany
Police found a cannabis plantation with 643 plants while searching a property in an outlying part of
Balgstädt, in the Burgenlandkreis, on 5 August 2026.[1] Two men aged 30 and 24, described by
police as of Albanian origin, were provisionally arrested, and the Halle public prosecutor’s office
said it would seek arrest warrants against them.[1][2]
Investigators estimated that the plantation could produce about 30 kg of cannabis flowers every six
to eight weeks, worth more than €100,000 at sale prices.[1][2] The plants were seized as
evidence.[1]
The searches were carried out under court orders in investigations into suspected violations of the
Consumer Cannabis Act and illegal trafficking in narcotics.[1] Officers also searched three
properties in Halle, where they seized evidence and communications devices; those investigations
target two men of Turkish origin aged 52 and 30 and were continuing.[1][2]
Sources
- Cannabisplantage bei Durchsuchungen aufgefunden. Polizeiinspektion Halle (Saale), 5 August 2026. In German.
- Burgenlandkreis: 643 Cannabispflanzen bei Razzia entdeckt – zwei Festnahmen. MDR Sachsen-Anhalt, 5 August 2026. In German. Archived copy.
Open questions the AI reported
- The 643 figure is the police's count of plants seized; no final weight of the harvest was published.
- The two men were provisionally arrested; whether arrest warrants were issued was not reported in the accounts opened.
- The police did not say what happened to the plants after they were seized as evidence.