Police clear 640 plants and 50 kg of buds from Konken Gasthaus Gerlach
In early October 2026 Westpfalz police and the state criminal office searched the empty former Gasthaus Gerlach in Konken after a power outage exposed tampered cables. They secured 640 cannabis plants, 632 cuttings and about 50 kg of harvested buds, with a street value they put near €1 million; no operators had been named when figures were released.
🇩🇪 former Gasthaus Gerlach, Konken, Kusel district · Germany
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Plants destroyed
640
Cannabis
50 kg
Value (official estimate)
EUR 1,000,000
In early October 2026 officers of Polizeipräsidium Westpfalz and the Landeskriminalamt searched the
empty former Gasthaus Gerlach in Konken, Kusel district, after the local energy supplier reported
tampered cables spotted when the street lost power.[1][2]
A multi-storey lighting and air system fed a professional indoor cannabis plantation; Technisches
Hilfswerk crews helped dismantle it.[1][2]
On later inquiry the Westpfalz police press office told Die Rheinpfalz that officers had secured 640
plants, 632 cuttings and about 50 kilograms of harvested buds, with an estimated street-sale value
near one million euros.[1] Who built and ran the grow was still under investigation when those
figures were published.[1][2]
About 200 customs, police and city officers checked 12 bars, shisha bars and shops in eastern Leipzig on 2 November 2026 in an anti-clan operation. Officers logged seven narcotics and cannabis-law violations and found larger quantities of narcotics in a commercial property on Eisenbahnstraße, with no separate cannabis weight published.
On 27 October 2026, Dresden customs officers searched four sites in Grimma, Rochlitz and Erlau and found an indoor plantation with 795 cannabis plants and about 4.7 kg of harvested marijuana. Two suspects were remanded; seven men aged 23 to 60 are under investigation.
On 27 October 2026 criminal police searched five addresses in the Rhein-Sieg district and found about 900 early-stage cannabis plants in three converted cellar rooms of a house in Troisdorf-Spich. Three suspects aged 42 to 49 were photographed and released while inquiries continued.
Police searched the Hanf.com hemp shop on Theaterstraße in Landshut on 9 October 2026 and seized about 1,500 items including seeds, cuttings, hemp tea and CBD flowers. Founder Wenzel Cerveny called the fourth Landshut search disproportionate; no charges were brought that day.
