Agents of the National Police have dismantled a Cannabis Association in Cartagena (Murcia) and have proceeded to the arrest of seven people – six men and one woman – aged between 20 and 35 years old for drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons and membership of a criminal group.
The investigations began into an alleged Cannabis Association located in San Ginés which, under cover of its legal basis, was used as a point of sale of narcotics, according to sources from the National Police in a communiqué.
Agents from the Narcotics Group established this and were also able to determine that those responsible could be using two houses located in the Plaza de los Derechos Humanos in the Barriada Virgen de la Caridad (Barriada de Las Seiscientas) to store the marijuana and hashish which they subsequently sold in the association, being transported by a young man on a scooter.
On the basis of the above, the police officers applied to the Duty Examining Court for a warrant to enter and search the three properties, and once granted, during the search, they were able to seize, among other things, more than twenty-four thousand (24,000) euros in cash, some 20,000 grams of marijuana, more than 3,000 grams and 257 acorns of hashish and other effects related to the trafficking of narcotics.
The agents also seized three vehicles and a ‘STAR’ 9 mm parabelum calibre pistol and arrested seven people, all of them Spanish nationals and five of them with a long police record.
Six of those arrested were placed at the disposal of the 2nd Examining Court of Cartagena, which ordered them to be remanded in custody.