89 cannabis plants seized in a Krāslava greenhouse and dried marijuana in town
On 30 and 31 July 2025 Latvian police in Krāslava and Krāslava municipality searched three addresses, pulling 89 marijuana plants from a greenhouse and about 40 grams of dried marijuana from a young man’s flat and house, opening two criminal cases.
Latvian police in Latgale searched three addresses in Krāslava and the surrounding municipality on
30 and 31 July 2025 during two linked inquiries into illegal drugs.[1][2]
On 30 July officers acting on intelligence found a marijuana grow in pots inside a greenhouse on a
private plot in Krāslava municipality.[1]They removed 89 plants and opened a cultivation case
against a man born in 1979.[1]
The next day police searched a flat and house in Krāslava linked to a man born in 1998.[1]They
took twelve bunches of dried plant material, a three-litre jar of similar material, cuttings drying
for processing and trimmings, totalling about 40 grams of dried marijuana by police estimate pending
expert tests.[1]
The second case concerns possession and dealing offences under Latvian drug law.[1]TV3 carried the
same police account when the release was published on 8 August 2025.[2]The force reminded readers
that suspects remain innocent until proven guilty in court.[1]
Case data
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The 31 July search recovered about 40 grams of dried material plus cuttings awaiting tests; the man born in 1998 was not described as detained in the police release.
The greenhouse case targets a man born in 1979; neither name nor court outcome was published.
TV3 republished the police release on 8 August 2025 without naming anyone arrested.
Police photos on the release illustrate the greenhouse and seized jars but are not dated to a specific moment in the raid.
Latvian State Police found an equipped cannabis grow in a house and greenhouse in Jersika parish, Livani municipality, seizing 114 plants at different growing and drying stages plus 19 cartridges. A man born in 1980 was detained on suspicion and a criminal case was opened, with the investigation continuing.
After a long investigation, Latvian police detained four people on 3–4 June 2026 and searched ten addresses in Rēzekne, Rēzekne and Madona municipalities, finding two indoor grows with 835 marijuana plants and about 24 kilograms of dried cannabis plus guns and €3,145 cash.
In late July 2025 Kurzeme police found a specially equipped backyard plot in Saldus municipality, seizing more than 300 marijuana plants and dried plant material. Several suspects were detained; forensic tests on the exact weight were still pending when police publicised the case on 22 August.
Police in the Dobele area of Latvia dismantled two cannabis growing sites in Penkule and Ķegums parishes in early July 2019, finding 69 seedlings, 54 young plants, 16 and 5 bushes, and 2,054 grams of undried marijuana. Two men were detained and released under a preventive measure not involving imprisonment while the criminal case continued.
