Drug Farms Shut Down

Two indoor marijuana farms have been shut down in separate operations carried out by the National Police in Elche and Orihuela.

277 marijuana plants were found at an Orihuela address with a 49-year-old Spaniard charged with public health offences and illegally using electricity.

The Elche operation uncovered 27 kilos of marijuana ready to be packaged up, plus equipment for their cultivation. Four people of Croatian and Serbian nationality were arrested.