Spanish police seize largest ever amount of marijuana

Marijuana with a street value of at least 64 million euros has been seized in Spain – the largest amount ever found – police said, Report informs referring to The Guardian.

Spanish police said they had seized 32 tons of packaged marijuana.

Police raided farms and production plants across Spain in an operation called Gardens. They arrested nine men and 11 women, who were aged between 20 and 59.

“The Civil Guard has seized the largest cache of packaged marijuana found so far,” Spain’s Civil Guard said. “It was equivalent to approximately 1.1 million plants.”

Police said the gang dried the marijuana plants, packaged them and sent them to parts of Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.