Mossos d’Esquadra officers arrested eight men and four women between 3 and 5 November 2026 over four cannabis grows in the province of Girona.[1][2][3][4][5] Four of the twelve arrested had previous police records.[2][5] The twelve, aged between 20 and 48, were held over drug trafficking, electricity fraud and an offence against public health.[2][3][6][5] The grows were dismantled in three homes and an annex of an industrial warehouse in Lloret de Mar, Anglès, Llagostera and Maçanet de la Selva, the Catalan police said in a statement.[7][2][3][5] Police treated the four sites as independent investigations rather than one network.[1] Investigators from the units of three Mossos d’Esquadra stations took part, and the inquiry began in summer 2026, when officers suspected a home in an urbanisation in Lloret de Mar was being used to grow cannabis.[2][5]
At Lloret de Mar officers seized 410 plants and 775 grams of buds, and arrested two people.[1][8][2][4][6][5] In the Lloret de Mar house, the 410 plants were found in the garage and a bag holding the 775 grams of buds was found in a nearby storage room.[5] The two arrested in Lloret de Mar were a 43-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman with no previous police records, who were brought before the duty court in Blanes the next morning.[5] The searches in Anglès on 4 November seized 200 plants in the growth phase.[7][6][5] A woman was arrested at Anglès and a second man was arrested there the same day, with support from the Arro and officers of the Citizen Security Unit (USC).[1][6][5] Officers from the Santa Coloma de Farners station carried out the Anglès operation, arresting a 23-year-old woman during the search and a 31-year-old man with a previous record that afternoon.[5] The Llagostera operation on 5 November seized 524 cannabis cuttings and 66.5 kilograms of buds, and four people were arrested.[1][8][4][6][5] The Llagostera raid was carried out by the investigative unit of the Girona station, and those arrested were three men aged 24, 25 and 29 and a 32-year-old woman.[5]
In Maçanet de la Selva, suspicions raised by the local police prompted a search hours later, in which 245 plants and 2.9 kilograms of buds were seized and four people arrested.[1][8][4][6][5] After smelling a strong odour of marijuana from outside, Santa Coloma de Farners Mossos officers obtained a judicial warrant to enter the Maçanet de la Selva home, where the 245 plants were 1.5 metres tall and the buds weighed 2,939 grams.[5] The four people arrested in Maçanet de la Selva were three men aged 20, 23 and 48 and a 23-year-old woman, all of whom except the 20-year-old man had previous records.[5] The electricity company put the unbilled energy fraud at the Maçanet de la Selva house at 8,358 euros.[3][6][5]
