Spanish police make massive drug haul near Barcelona

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Spanish police make massive drug haul near Barcelona

STORY: Spanish police make massive drug haul near Barcelona DATELINE: July 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. sequence shots on the operation (courtesy of Spanish National Police and Civil Guards) STORYLINE: Spanish National Police and Civil Guards on Thursday said they have seized a record six tons of marijuana at an illegal plantation in Vilassar de Mar, 30 kilometers north of Barcelona. Five people were arrested in what police say is the biggest ever haul of marijuana they have ever made, in which two guns, a knife, tasers and over 5,000 euros in cash were also seized. The arrests were made at a 32-hectare site after police realized that even though the land was supposedly dedicated to cultivating industrial hemp, it did not have any permits to do this and in fact marijuana had been grown on a huge scale there since 2018. "Just over six tons of marijuana, among which were 3.5 tons of buds in vacuum-packed thermal bags," were discovered during the police

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