Around 100 police forces from Lezha and Mirdita led by Lezha police director Ermal Muca carried out the codenamed operation Befasia at a warehouse at the former Collection at the exit of Rreshen-Mirdita.[1] The warehouse served for the collection and processing of cannabis.[1] Officers arrested 22 people inside the workshop in flagrante delicto while they were working.[1] Nine women were pursued at large and the warehouse owner Kastriot Reci was declared wanted.[1]
Weighing completed the next day found 4238 kg of cannabis-sativa in the process of drying and processing in the warehouse.[1] In a vast warehouse in the town of Rreshen, tier after tier of drying cannabis was laid out on mesh shelves with sacks around and a transit van with open back doors.[2] In this one location there were more than four tonnes of cannabis with a street value in Italy of some six million euros, described by officer in charge Agron Cullhaj as the largest ever find in this area.[2]
The seizure came as the growing season ended and police shifted to confiscating the prepared drug after the government said more than two million cannabis plants had been destroyed that year.[2] The investigative group in cooperation with the prosecutor continued actions to fully document the activity.[1] On November 2, 4238 kg of cannabis was found in a warehouse in Mirdita with 22 workers arrested on site.[3]
