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They had intended Property ten homes cultivation and handling of marijuana
The high quality marijuana opened the doors of the Dutch market
The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia, in the context of the operation TONINO ', has dismantled a criminal group dedicated to the cultivation and trafficking of marijuana back in the hamlet of Murcia Sangonera la Seca.
The seven arrested, who are credited with the alleged perpetrators of the crimes of drug trafficking, theft of property and defrauding of electricity, had appropriated an unoccupied building to install ten houses clandestine marijuana greenhouses and allocate other stays drying facilities and handling and packaging.
Agents specialized in public safety prevention research began last February, when they spotted a group of people could be related to drug trafficking.
The watchdog done on the investigated group allowed the civil guards check their alleged involvement in the distribution of both marijuana and Sangonera la Seca Raceway and in Torrevieja (Alicante), so the investigational device was expanded in order to find the place of cultivation, storage and handling of the substance.
Soon after, to the surprise of the researchers detected that the members of the criminal group, dressed in work clothes, regularly accessed the building of Sangonera la Seca, newly built but uninhabited, pretending to be professionals in the construction sector.
The researchers found that most group members were unemployed and had illegally connected electricity to the building, which, after checking the high energy consumption and sensing that the building an underground greenhouse had been installed, they focused all research in the building and in the movements of suspects.
Research shows that the now arrested took the situation however the building, which comprises ten houses and annexes, to usurp the property and thus avoid detection, as are commonly found in other facilities or plantations abroad.
In addition, several members of the group had experience in these crimes because they had dismantled some other plantation above, hence coverage used to enter the building work clothes, giving the feeling culminating construction workers.
To move marijuana and perform deliveries to customers, members of the criminal group made use of heightened security measures to avoid detection, hindering the performance of researchers.
The most common method was the use of a vehicle loaded with marijuana and other performing functions 'shuttle' to warn of potential roadblocks.
Before making exchanges, other members guarding the area to detect the presence of vehicles or people that could generate their suspicions.
Another method used for trade, inspired by smugglers snuff-eighties in the Pyrenees, was loaded vacuum packaged marijuana in the trunk of a vehicle, simulate faults in it and request the service of a crane to move up Torrevieja, where the loaded vehicle is parked in an agreed area and another person with a copy of the keys took care of the car, thus avoided detection during transport by road police checks and difficult to be related to the activity unlawful.
After obtaining the necessary evidence, the Civil Guard launched the operational phase of the operation, a team of twenty troops and helicopter Corps, in which the entry was made and investigated registration building, which allowed dismantling sophisticated type indoor marijuana plantation, distributed throughout the building and rooms dedicated to all stages of cultivation and manipulation of cannabis sativa.
Collaboration with the National Police
Once registered the building and seized the plantation and other related drug effects, policemen, who have enjoyed the cooperation of troops from the National Police Sewer in the work of identifying team members criminal, they established a search that culminated in the location and arrest of the seven members of the criminal group, as alleged perpetrators of theft of property, drug trafficking and fraud of electricity.
Sophisticated indoor marijuana plantation
The dismantled network had usurped a building of Sangonera la Seca, composed of ten houses, and had installed inside numerous greenhouses for growing marijuana.
He had also designed other rooms of the houses to drying and final handling of cannabis.
The infrastructure and the means employed by the criminal group have surprised researchers by its sophistication.
Both in greenhouses and driers buds sodium bulbs used with timers and autonomous cooling to maintain an optimum temperature habitats in order to speed up the process, while ensuring lighting 24 hours a day, and bring plant operating at peak performance.
They also had plants exclusively oriented to the production of seeds, which were grafted to provide a lot of seeds of excellent quality, which would provide a healthy plants and more levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) plants conventional marijuana.
Export marijuana Netherlands
Researchers have verified that, thanks to the high quality of the marijuana plants provided, the group had open international market and envasaban buds vacuum to market in the Netherlands, by citizens of this country residing in the town of Alicante Torrevieja.
Fraud superior electric power to 100,000 euros
During the investigation, the Civil Guard has proven that now had arrested illegally connected electricity to the building.
Through butrón in the basement of the building were connected to a transformer located about 100 meters from the building with four direct shots to the public network to avoid brownouts in the area, as well as being undetectable consumption.
The four underground connections supplying electricity to the building in stages, allowing them to provide the planting of high power consumption.
The utility estimates that 109,019 euros have let in just one year, whose expenses have been claimed to be responsible for planting.
In the registered building have seized 50,000 grams of marijuana buds arranged both pressed and vacuum packed and collected a hundred plants.
It has also dismantled a clandestine marijuana greenhouse multifunction composed of 115 lamps, high pressure sodium eight carbon filters to avoid the smell, lots of ballasts, wiring and electrical panels, fertilizer and tools for cultivation, air conditioners , exhaust fans, humidifiers.
Have also seized three vehicles used by high-end frame for their criminal activity.
The seven Spaniards arrested, aged 24 and enter 46 years, residents of several villages of Murcia and Sewer, and some with a history of similar offenses, drugs seized, impounded effects and the proceedings have been made available the magistrate of Murcia.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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