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Fokida: The hidden plantation with hundreds of cannabis plants and escape exits

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These are three (3) foreigners aged 43 (leader), 46 and 51 years old against whom a case file has been filed, as the case may be, for criminal organization and violations of the laws on drugs and weapons, while the case file includes one more person .

As part of an organized police operation, on Thursday July 21, 2022, in Viotia and Attica, three members of a criminal organization, which is active in the cultivation of cannabis seedlings and in the further processing and trafficking of quantities of cannabis, were arrested.

These are three (3) foreigners aged 43 (leader), 46 and 51 years old against whom a case file has been filed, as the case may be, for criminal organization and violations of the laws on drugs and weapons, while the case file includes one more person .

In particular, in the afternoon hours of July 21, on the Athens-Lamia national road, at the height of the Thebes toll, a car with a 51-year-old driver was spotted, who at the sight of the police, in order to avoid the control, abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot. In a subsequent search of his vehicle, (20) kilograms and (300) grams of raw cannabis were found and confiscated.

At the same time, in an outdoor parking area near the Thebes toll road, the police found another car in which the 43-year-old (manager) and his 46-year-old accomplice were riding and were arrested, while in the evening hours of the same day, the 51-year-old was also arrested in a house in the area of ​​Attica .

Subsequently, in a police operation in the morning hours of Friday, July 22, a plantation of cannabis seedlings was located in the area of ​​Fokida, which the members of the organization had configured appropriately, with fencing so that the area was not accessible, while they had also created escape exits in case their detection by the prosecuting authorities.

In total, the following were found and confiscated from the area:

  • 750 hemp seedlings,
  • 8 kilograms and 750 grams of cannabis,
  • water pump which they used to draw water from a nearby tributary and
  • (1,259) plastic pots, which were used to grow cannabis seeds into cannabis plants.

In subsequent searches of the homes of the arrested, the following were found and confiscated:

3,900 euros,
cannabis microparcels,
2 cars and truck,
electronic scale and 17 cartridges, which were in a specially designed cache inside a bedroom closet.

Cannabis seedlings in Fthiotida

Cannabis seedlings in Fthiotida

The case was handled by the General Affairs Department of the Narcotics Prosecution Sub-Directorate of the Thessaloniki Security Directorate, while police officers from the P.A.Th.E. Highway Traffic Department assisted in the operations. Boeotia, the Security Departments of Thebes and Amfissa – Delphi and the Investigation Office of the Police Directorate of Boeotia.

The perpetrators will be brought to the competent prosecuting authority.

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