Spain’s National Police detained two people in Linares, Jaen, for alleged offences against public health and electricity fraud while dismantling two marijuana plantations.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] The investigation was carried out by the local judicial police brigade and led by the drugs group, with support from other station units including citizen assistance, judicial police and scientific police.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Officers carried out two home searches in which they seized 575 marijuana plants.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Officers also seized assorted material intended for cultivation in the searches.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Police said the operation dismantled two marijuana cultivation points in Linares.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][10][11]

The action was Operation Jaroco, run over recent months by the Linares station as part of a firm fight against drug trafficking and public-health offences, within the work of the station’s new narcotics group.[12][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][10]