Police in Zrenjanin, with the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in the city, arrested three people on suspicion of unauthorised production and sale of narcotics.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] One of the three, identified as Ž. G., is a Gendarmerie member aged 43; the other two are 64 and 63.[12][13][4][14][9][15]

Officers searched the flat and other premises the suspects use and found an illegal indoor cannabis-growing laboratory.[1][2][5][8][14][15] They seized 81 plants resembling Indian hemp, about 7.5 kilograms of dried plant material suspected to be marijuana and scales[1][13][3][4][5][6][7][8][14][9][10][15][11], and equipment used to grow the drug, the Police Administration for Zrenjanin said.[12][13][15]

By order of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office the three were held for up to 48 hours and were to be brought to the prosecutor with a criminal complaint.[1][16][13][3][6][7][8][14][9][10][11] Police said the investigation would establish each suspect’s role in the operation.[12]