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Madrid Police Dismantle Urban Cannabis Hub and Freeze Assets of Family Clan

The case underscores a shift to high‑tech marijuana production hidden in occupied city flats.

Overview

  • Officers dismantled 13 indoor grow sites across 16 occupied flats in San Cristóbal (Villaverde), seizing 4,300 plants and 30 kilograms of processed cannabis.
  • The raids were executed on February 4 with a coordinated deployment of more than 250 National Police officers from multiple specialized units.
  • Five suspects—three women and two men—were arrested and remanded to prison on suspicion of drug trafficking, illegal weapons possession, belonging to a criminal group and electricity fraud.
  • Agents recovered a firearm described as a submachine gun, other weapons, €5,000 in cash and professional cultivation equipment while utility technicians cut illegal power taps.
  • UDEF froze more than thirty bank accounts, seized two vehicles and imposed preventive blocks on eight properties as investigators pursue the network’s finances and distribution links.