Guardia Civil and Tax Agency seize 785 plants in Molvízar grow
Customs officers and Guardia Civil dismantled a cannabis production centre at Molvízar in Granada in Operation Lopi/Pájaro, seizing 785 plants and a modified pistol. A 21-year-old Albanian man found at the house was arrested and remanded in custody, the Tax Agency said on 11 November 2022.
Customs Surveillance officers and Guardia Civil officers dismantled a cannabis
production centre belonging to an international criminal organisation in
Molvízar, Granada, in Operation Lopi/Pájaro.[1]They seized 785 Cannabis
sativa plants at various stages of growth, 185 of them in flower and 600 not
yet flowering, along with bags of seeds and a blank-firing pistol modified to
fire live rounds.[1]
The Guardia Civil in Salobreña began investigating the site the previous
October and, after Motril’s Court of Instruction No. 4 authorised a search,
officers found the grow inside a house on the outskirts of the town.[1]Electricity workers confirmed two illegal connections to the grid feeding the
operation.[1]
A 21-year-old Albanian man with no criminal record was in the house; he fled
into nearby woods when officers arrived but was caught and arrested for drug
trafficking, membership of a criminal organisation, unlawful possession of
weapons and electricity fraud.[1]He was remanded in custody while the search
continued for other suspects.[1]
Case data
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Customs officers and National Police arrested three people after finding 126 kilograms of marijuana in a van in Elche and 145 flowering plants in an indoor grow in Cehegín. The inquiry began in March 2026; a suspected leader was later arrested in Guardamar del Segura and brought before a court in Torrevieja.
National Police seized nearly 1,000 cannabis plants in two indoor grows in Granada's Norte district. A 35-year-old man was detained over one of the flats and referred to the judicial authority.
The Guardia Civil dismantled an outdoor marijuana plantation in Mira, Cuenca, in Operation TABACU II, seizing nearly 73 kilos of cannabis and more than 1,000 cut plants. A 37-year-old man allegedly guarding the crop was arrested and remanded in provisional prison without bail.
Spain's National Police dismantled an indoor cannabis grow in a La Nucía house, seizing 200 plants and about 38kg of buds. A 47-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and electricity theft and remanded in custody.
