Blitz of the men of the Flying Squad in the countryside of Orosei, where three breeders of 52, 26 and 18 years, convicted, were arrested for trafficking in marijuana.
The men of the Flying Squad of Cagliari, Falchi Group, in collaboration with the Flying Squad of Nuoro have seized a farm in "Sos Alinos", where a cultivation of 6,300 cannabis plants had been planted.
Inside a huge shed the three had hung the plants on steel cables to dry, while another part of the harvest had already been divided and packaged for illegal distribution.
From the first sample analyzes, the plants were found to have an active principle on average 10 times higher than the maximum allowed limit. At the end of the processing, the plantation would have produced over 1 tonne of dried marijuana, for a market value of about one and a half million euros.
The depot was a supply point for the whole of Sardinia.
Those arrested were placed under house arrest on the orders of the Nuoro Public Prosecutor's Office.
(Unioneonline / vl)