Two police forces, the Policía Nacional and the Guardia Civil, along with the Customs & Excise, moved in on a medicine clan based mostly in Jete… sure, Jete!

It seems that the Policía Nacional, via their narcotics part in Motril, the Guardia Civil, via their Salobeña submit, and the Customs Service, via its Grupo I de Contrabando in Motril, had all investigated individually and provide you with the identical conclusion, therefore their working collectively on this case.

Every had their very own operational code names: Operación Campana, Operación Gindaverde II and Operación DAVA, all of which started life in 2021 when it grew to become recognized {that a} cortijo was getting used as a large-scale cultivation centre.

As soon as the farm inside the municipality of Jete was positioned, its proprietor recognized and that of the folks working there, the authorities prolonged the stake out and found that the household was utilizing different properties for an outside plantation and inside ones.

As quickly as all this investigation and surveillance had concluded, the officers from the three establishments moved in and made two arrests, exposing the plantations, together with a bunker getting used as an underground plantation illegally hooked as much as a mains-electricity supply below one of many buildings.

The police confiscated six tonnes of hashish flower (cogollos) already packaged, six long-barrelled firearms (4 shotguns and two rifles) and considerable ammunition.

Up to now, two suspects have been arrested however additional arrests haven’t been dominated out.

Editorial remark: so that they make extra than simply good wine in Jete! It’d shock readers to know that little jete as soon as had the very best per capita in the entire of Spain… and no it wasn’t from medicine however from subtropical fruit.

(Information: Jete, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)