In Neamț County, DIICOT prosecutors and organized-crime police detained three traffickers, one of whom had grown the cannabis while the other two stole from him to sell it onward.[1] The two men had learned of the cornfield crop and repeatedly took plants from the grower, storing them in an abandoned house to sell onward.[2] They were caught red-handed the previous Sunday while transporting some of the stored plants, and one of them was caught only after police fired warning shots into the air.[2] All three were brought before the Neamț Tribunal with a proposal for 30 days of preventive arrest.[2]

Searches recovered 246 cannabis plants weighing 1,200 kilograms from the farmland, 59 kilograms of cannabis from the greenhouse crop and about 18.5 kilograms from the abandoned building.[2] DIICOT and the Neamț police described the 1,200-kilogram field seizure as a record quantity.[1]

The grower had set up two crops for sale that year, one in a greenhouse behind his home and a second on nearby farmland hidden inside the corn.[2] The investigation was documented by the Neamț organized-crime service together with DIICOT’s Neamț territorial office against three people on risk-drug trafficking and unlawful-possession allegations.[3]