Five Suspects Arrested in Elche Drugs Bust
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Five suspects arrested in Elche drugs bust
Five suspects have been arrested after police in Elche, Alicante have dismantled a criminal organisation with the intent to sell drugs disguised as CBD in tobacco and CBD shops. These products contained up to seven times more than the legal levels of THC, which is the principal psychoactive compound in cannabis. The operation was carried out in various cities and towns in the region… Source
They sold products with up to seven times as permitted by law in THC content (marijuana ) camouflaged with the legal appearance of CBD . The National Police has dismantled in Elche a large-scale criminal network that marketed in watertight and specialized stores throughout Spain this stupefacient after detecting an unusual number of positives in this drug among the drivers of the city, in routine controls.
The police have broken up a criminal network in Elche (Alicante) that was selling CBD products (a non-psychoactive cannabioid) in watertight and specialized stores across the state under the guise of legality, when it actually sold products with a THC content, with psychoactive effects up to seven times as much as permitted by law.
Within the operation, five detainees, three house searches and twenty inspections of watertights and shops have been carried out.
Six months of investigation following a suspicion by the Local Police of Elche has taken to the National Police has dismantled in the licitan municipality a network that distributed drugs masked as CBD, containing amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) up to seven times as much as permitted by current legislation.The operation has concluded with five detainees, three house searches and about twenty inspections carried out simultaneously in watert…
The National Police has disarticulated in the city of Elche, a criminal network dedicated to the sale of CBD products in watertight and specialized shops throughout Spain under the appearance of legality, when it actually sold products with a THC content, up to seven times as much as permitted by law. The operation, which took place simultaneously, in Elche, Alicante, Elda, Santa Pola, Almoradi, within the province of Alicante, as well as in Val…
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