Spain’s Tax Agency Customs Surveillance unit and the National Police raided an indoor cannabis plantation in the Palmete neighbourhood of Seville on 4 April 2024, dismantling a criminal organisation based there.[1] Officers acting on a court search warrant seized 205 cannabis plants in an advanced stage of flowering, several bags of buds ready for sale and more than 6,000 euros in cash, along with a crossbow, a harpoon gun and several bladed weapons.[1] The growers had wired the property with unauthorised electrical connections, creating a fire risk as well as defrauding the power supplier.[1] Five people were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and electricity fraud and brought before the judicial authorities once police procedures were complete.[1]
Five arrested as indoor plantation with 205 plants dismantled in Seville
Spain's Customs Surveillance unit and the National Police raided an indoor cannabis plantation in the Palmete neighbourhood of Seville on 4 April 2024, seizing 205 flowering plants, bags of buds, cash and weapons. Five people were arrested for drug trafficking and electricity fraud.
🇪🇸 Palmete neighbourhood, Seville · Spain
- Arrested
- 5
- of them seized
- 205
- Cannabis
- Living plants
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Arrested
- 5
- of them seized
- 205
- Agency type
- Customs, Police
- Cannabis
- Living plants (205 plants)
- Activity
- Cultivation
- Setting
- Other building
- Grown
- Indoor
- Charges
- drug trafficking; electricity fraud
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Sources
- Spanish Tax Agencysede.agenciatributaria.gob.esA cannabis plantation has been dismantled in the Palmete neighbourhood of Seville
Open questions the AI reported
- The whole account rests on the Tax Agency's statement; no independent reporting of the raid was found.
- Whether the five arrested were charged or remanded was not reported.
- No weight was given for the seized bags of buds ready for sale.



