Customs Surveillance officials from the Tax Agency and Civil Guard agents have arrested four people in Tenerife related to a cannabis club and a clandestine laboratory in which 716 marijuana plants, six kilos of buds and 6,490 euros have been seized in cash.
The joint operation, called Lobo, took place on June 12 when members of both forces proceeded to enter and search a cannabis club and two homes that concealed a clandestine laboratory and several indoor cannabis plantations in the towns of San Andrés. and Abbots.
As reported this Thursday by the Ministry of the Interior, the agents had verified that sales of narcotic substances were made at the club to be consumed by non-members outside the premises.
As a result of the searches, four people were arrested who were inside the buildings carrying out custody and surveillance tasks, as well as cultivating, processing and selling narcotic substances.
Among the detainees is a citizen of Italian nationality who advertised on social networks and at events in which he participated as a speaker as “the best extractor and biotechnology man“hashish resin”, a name he gave himself to highlight his work in enhancing the active principle tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and, with it, the effects of the product in the body.
The records resulted in the seizure of 716 marijuana plants, six kilos of packaged marijuana buds, 146 grams of hashish, 628 grams of hashish resin, 100 grams of pollen, 50 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms, 28 manufactured cigarettes for consumption, 112 bottles with high THC concentration hashish resin and 6,490 euros in cash.
In addition, various material was seized, including a hydraulic press and a highly valuable freeze-drying machine, used to subject cannabis plants to processes aimed at obtaining the highest quality resin, hashish and pollen.
The agents found that the marijuana-derived products found had been modified through different processes to enhance their active principle and thus produce greater effects.
The detainees were transferred to offices of the Fiscal and Border Section of the Civil Guard of the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where proceedings were carried out together with the Customs Surveillance Operational Unit to later place the detainees and the seized effects at the disposal of the Court. of Instruction number 4 of Granadilla de Abona.
