Two held after 281 cannabis plants seized in Kiryat Shmuel
Zevulun station detectives seized 281 seedlings suspected to be cannabis, weighing about 125 kilograms, from a drugs laboratory in a Kiryat Shmuel apartment. Two suspects were arrested and remanded, and the Coastal District commander ordered the flat closed.
Detectives from the Zevulun police station exposed a drugs laboratory in an
apartment in Kiryat Shmuel and seized 281 seedlings they suspected were
cannabis.[1]The station put the seedlings’ combined weight at about 125
kilograms.[1]Haifa and Krayot News, citing the Israel Police spokesperson,
described the apartment as a laboratory for growing plants suspected to be
cannabis.[2]
Officers searched the flat as part of police activity against offences of
growing drugs and trafficking in them, and found the seedlings during that
search.[1]Two suspects were arrested, taken to the Zevulun station for
questioning, and remanded in custody when that questioning ended.[1]
Coastal District commander Yechiel Bohadana then signed an administrative
closure order for the apartment where the laboratory had been exposed.[1]Haifa and Krayot News said the police spokesperson was the source of the
closure-order account.[2]No further details of the investigation, and no
identities of the suspects, had been released.[2]
Photos and video
Photograph published with the 0404 report of the Kiryat Shmuel laboratory, showing an illuminated indoor cannabis grow. Photo: חדשות 04Photo details
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