Joint operation of the Tax Agency and the National Police

• In the plots that housed the plantations, located in Utrera, Alcalá de Guadaira and Coria del Río, 23 kilos of buds have also been intervened
• There are 16 detained for their alleged participation in drug trafficking and electricity fraud crimes.

June 22, 2023 .- Customs Surveillance Officials of the Tax Agency, in a joint operation, agents of the National Police, have dismantled, in three operations carried out in a period of twelve days, 28 marijuana plantations in the province of Seville, in which 5,500 plants and 23 kilos of buds have been seized. In addition, 16 people have been arrested for their alleged participation in drug trafficking crimes and electricity fraud.

The first performance took place on June 1 and took place in a rustic area located between the limits of the municipalities of Utrera and Alcalá de Guadaíra.

As a result of the investigations carried out, four plots with seven greenhouses were detected, inside which marijuana cultivation activities were being carried out. Once the alleged perpetrators were identified, the entry and search was ordered by the Utrera Guard Court, seizing more than 2,000 marijuana plants, 17 kilos of buds and arresting five individuals of Spanish nationality, most of whom already had police record for similar events.

Plantations in Coria del Río

The second operation took place on June 6, when a series of complaints from residents of the La Hermandad urbanization (Seville) led to the search of a total of four properties dedicated to drug trafficking in the cultivation modality, both 'indoor' and 'outdoor'.

After the searches, the crops were located, which had a sophisticated and highly professional system made up of interior rooms, with different greenhouses for different species of marijuana existing on the same farms. Tools for making hashish by hand were also found.

In the operation, five people responsible for the crops have been arrested and eleven plantations and two indoor crops have been dismantled. In addition, more than 2,000 marijuana plants and six kilos of buds ready for distribution have been seized, as well as documentation relating to the different prices of each type of marijuana and hashish.

To carry out the operation, a device made up of fifty troops was established, and there was the collaboration of air resources and the Prevention and Reaction Unit of Seville.

1,500 marijuana plants in Alcalá de Guadaíra

The third operation took place on June 12 in Alcalá de Guadaíra. In this case, six plots with eight plantations were searched in which around 1,500 plants were seized and six individuals were arrested, the entries and searches being authorized by the Investigative Court number 1 of Alcalá de Guadaira, acting as guard.

The plantations were located on plots located in rural areas and difficult to access. These locations are used by criminal organizations because they are located in areas with little traffic and make it easier for the organizations to detect anyone outside the crops.