Mossos d’Esquadra Arrest Gypsy Couple for Massive Drug and Weapon Trafficking in Vilafant

Los Mossos d’Esquadra have stopped at Vilafant (Girona) to a couple, both of Spanish nationality and of gypsy ethnicityaged 56 and 62, as the alleged perpetrators of the crimes of drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons. What began as an investigation for an alleged crime against public health – for the cultivation and trafficking of marijuana – ended up uncovering a tremendous arsenal of weapons that the couple hid in a farmhouse in this town of Alt Emporda.

A secondary home converted into a marijuana greenhouse

The investigation began in May when agents of the Research unit from the police station Fig trees were aware of the existence of a marijuana plantation within a farm located in a spot on the road GIP 5129.

This property, a parcel of 2,000 square metershad several buildings: one, the main one, was used as a residence, and the annex is where they found the 465 marijuana plants that were seized. The alert went off due to excessive consumption of electricity of this second property, whose electrical network did not go through the light meterdisappointing, thus, the electric fluid. Extreme that allowed the police to confirm that it was a plantation of marihuana.

Device with extra security measures

The farm had installed in the back of the attached house, and in a rudimentary way, several fully operational air conditioner compressors, as well as all the windows boarded up to hide what was going on inside. Indications that motivated the entry and registration of the past day 8 of June.

So, the Mossos designed a device to enter the farmbut due to criminal history of the people the police knew lived there – with multiple records, including a warrant to commit to jail — organized an entrance with all possible security measures. Therefore, there was the presence of agents of the Special Intervention Group (GEI)in addition to agents of Citizen securityof the Subsoil Group and of the Canine unit.

guns and marijuana

In this way, on June 8, the entry and registration was carried out, discovering that that farm not only hid 456 marijuana plantsbut also a brutal arsenal of weapons. The agents intervened of semiautomatic pistols, two shotgunsan automatic submachine gun Stenmk 2a pellet shotgun, a double barrel pistol old and a revolver.

Most of the weapons were hidden inside a bed with a trundle and inside several cabinets, he assures the police in a press release. In addition, a saber, a sword, two knives and an American knuckle were located finished with a knife blade. In addition, in the various rooms, up to a total of 370 cartridges of different caliber.

Besides, they were also able to dismantle the marijuana plantationwhich had all the necessary utensils for its cultivation: intervening 84 foci con transformers y lamps, four fans, compressors, extractor motors and a precision scale. It is estimated that the price of the seized drug would be around 74,548 euros on the black marketaccording to National Narcotics Central Office.

The detainee already sleeps in prison

As advances ElCaso.com, she has several criminal records of threats and injuries. He, however, was convicted of fatally running over a man in 2010. The man was also aware of a warrant for search, arrest and admission to prison. After being handed over to the judge on duty in Figueres, provisional prison was ordered for him and released with charges for her.