Mossos d’Esquadra de Pineda de Mar (Maresme) together with agents of the Local Police of Tordera carried out a device on March 15 in the neighborhood of Sant Pere, in the company of Endesa technicians, to detect marijuana plantations and fraud electricity causing the blackouts in the area that had provoked protests from the neighbors.
This device continues last week’s operation, in which two indoor plantations were also detected, and in which three other arrests were made. In the first of the addresses, located by various pieces of information and confirmed by Endesa technicians upon detecting fraud in electricity, a person was arrested after agreeing to a voluntary entry and search based on the evidence shown by the agents.
In this first entry and search, the agents were able to recover a female caiman latirostris, a protected species. The animal was handed over to the agents of the Regional Environment Unit (URMA) who transferred it to the Center for the Recovery of Amphibians and Reptiles of Catalonia (CRARC), in Masquefa, and the complaint has yet to be qualified and quantified, since the Owner did not have any type of documentation.
At the second home, the agents located two people inside. For this reason, the investigation unit requested a warrant for entry and investigation from the Arenys de Mar security court. Two firearms were found inside the home, one of them illegally modified, as well as marijuana plants and material for the cyclical realization of indoor plantations that incorporated, among other elements known as air conditioners, fans and halogen lights, technological systems to remotely control the light cycles of the plants.
Two of the people were imprisoned by order of the Arenys duty court, and a third was released with charges pending being summoned by the court itself.
