Officers from the Wroclaw provincial police’s anti-football-hooligan unit received information that a 29-year-old resident of Trzebnica County, linked to the football-hooligan milieu, was growing cannabis in a field next to his property.[1] He hid the plants far from roads and paths among growing corn, believing nobody would notice them.[2] When police checked the field, only three large bushes remained, so they also searched the man’s property.[2] The man first insisted the plants were not his, but admitted the truth after officers found equipment in an outbuilding that could be used to process drugs.[2]

In the attic of a workshop building he had created special chambers for drying selected cannabis parts quickly before portioning the finished marijuana.[2] Police said the prepared drug was carefully weighed and labelled in glass containers.[2] In total, police seized more than 4.5 kilograms of finished marijuana and the three bushes found among the corn.[3]

The 29-year-old was held in police custody, questioned, and charged with possessing a significant quantity of drugs and cultivation, which carries up to 10 years in prison.[2] His case was left for a court to decide, with no outcome reported at the time of publication.[2]