They hide a marijuana plantation in two truck trailers and a container in Aspe

The Alicante Civil Guard within the framework of the Miller operation, at a national level, to give a police response to the cultivation and trafficking of marijuana, has dismantled an installation for the intensive production of indoor Cannabis sativa plants hidden inside a construction container and two large refrigerated trailers. 1,316 marijuana plants have been seized, in addition to the material used to grow them. A married couple of Dutch nationality have been arrested as allegedly responsible for the crimes of fraud of electricity and against public health. Those arrested after being brought to justice have been provisionally released.

In December, agents of the Aspe Civil Guard post they detected irregularities in the electrical installation of a plot located in a place in the town of Aspe. The plot was apparently dedicated to the parking of heavy vehicles.

In order to clarify the reason for said irregularities, the Aspe Post Investigation Area decided to start the investigation. Spilac investigation.

In a first line of investigation, the agents proceeded to identify the owners of the plot, in the case of a married couple, made up of a 62-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman, both of Dutch nationality.

During the investigations, the agents discovered that they were facing a illegal connection to the electricity grid, and that the valuation of the defrauded amounted to more than 20,000 euros. The high energy consumption made the agents suspect that there was an important marijuana plantation inside the plot.

After verifying that the male had background Due to facts related to drug trafficking and by providing incongruous information regarding the electricity supply of the plot, it was decided to carry out a search of the farm.

Once the search began, the investigators verified that the fraudulent electrical wiring reached up to two refrigerated trailers and a construction shed-type container. Inside the agents found 1,316 marijuana plants as well as an infrastructure with techniques for its indoor cultivation. The equipment consisted of irrigation systems, halogen lamps, cooling systems, ventilation systems and transformers that were illegally connected to the electrical network. All this equipment and the marijuana plants were seized by the agents.

Finally, the marriage was arrested for a crime against public health for growing marijuana and another for fraud of electricity due to the illegal connection to the electricity supply network.

An electric utility company has appeared in the case as injured by the economic losses generated by the fraud of electric fluid.

The proceedings, along with the two detainees, have been made available to the Court of Novelda (Alicante), which has decreed the provisional release with charges.

The Miller operation is developed at the national level for the eradication of the illegal cultivation of the cannabis plant, the illicit substance most consumed worldwide. In this way, the Civil Guard maintains active, at the national level, several operational plans to deal with it.