The criminal section of Palencia’s provincial court holds a hearing on 13 November against three accused, two women and a man.[1] Prosecutors seek a year and nine months in prison for each of them for drug trafficking in a form that does not cause serious harm to health.[1] The prosecution also asks for an 1,800-euro fine for one accused woman and 3,100 euros each for the other woman and the man, who were a couple.[1]

According to the prosecution’s indictment, the Guardia Civil, Spain’s armed-status national police force, ran an operation at two homes in the village of Husillos where consumers of narcotics were coming and going.[1] The force flew drones over the properties, saw cannabis pots in the patios, the yards of the houses, and asked for search warrants for each home.[1]

After a court gave authorisation, officers found marijuana plants, hashish resin and dried marijuana at the home where one of the accused women lived.[1] Prosecutors put that haul at 400 grams of drugs with a value of 1,750 euros.[1] At the second home, where the couple lived, officers seized a precision scale, marijuana plants, dried marijuana and buds.[1] That seizure totalled 800 grams of drugs valued at 3,000 euros.[1]