Overview
- Police in Eschwege seized a multi‑floor grow of roughly 1,000 cannabis plants in a house on Alten Steinweg after the local utility flagged unusually high power use.
- Officers arrested a 19‑year‑old Albanian man at the Eschwege site as several other suspects ran off through backyards.
- In Lichtenstein, Saxony, a witness tip led police to a former textile factory where they secured about 950 plants weighing an estimated 190 kilograms and valued at over one million euros.
- Both locations used professional gear such as high‑intensity lights, ventilation systems and a generator, which officers confiscated.
- Prosecutors ordered the plants destroyed and the active investigations now aim to trace who set up and controlled the properties.