Police in Tiszakécske detained two middle-aged men from Kecskemét who were harvesting a cannabis plantation hidden in woodland outside Tiszaalpár, in Bács-Kiskun County.[1]

Detectives at the Tiszakécske police station began investigating after information from the National Protective Service, Hungary’s internal affairs body, that someone was growing cannabis on the outskirts of Tiszaalpár.[1] The force told reporters the officers mounted a wildlife camera among the trees to identify the grower.[2] The camera sent an alert on a day in October, when a man appeared at the plantation carrying a plastic barrel and sheeting, so officers went straight to the site.[2]

Officers caught the man cutting marijuana plants with a machete and packing them into the barrels he had brought.[2] A second man was waiting in a four-wheel-drive vehicle nearby, where police said he had been keeping watch and was to carry the cut plants away.[1] At the scene officers seized several dozen plants and the equipment used for growing them.[1] Searches of the two men’s homes turned up four digital scales and, at the grower’s address, plant material that a quick field test indicated was marijuana.[2] Officers of the Kecskemét police headquarters questioned both men as suspects for the crime of drug possession and then took them into custody.[2]