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Albanian police seize around 1.5 tons of cannabis

Xinhua

Saturday 04 Aug 2018

Albanian police seized on Saturday a cargo of 1 ton and 463 kilograms of narcotic cannabis in two vans hiding among the trees near Vjosa river bed in a village of Memaliaj municipality, south Albania.

The police operation coded "Vjosa" was undertaken following information received by Memaliaj Police Station in cooperation with Narcotics section specialists at the Local Police Directorate of Gjirokastra.

The drug, produced earlier, and a part was found hiding in two white Mercedes Benz vans to avoid control operations across the territory of Albania that the police have undertaken and continues to prevent cannabis cultivation.

"As a result of the control exercised in recent weeks in Albanian territory by police services for the identification of persons who could carry weapons and narcotics for the purposes of its trafficking, the persons who possessed the narcotic substance and the firearms were hiding among the trees in order to avoid control," Gjirokastra police informed.

During the investigation, inside the vans were found a total of 16 firearms (1 sniper, 12 Kalashnikovs, 2 rifles and 1 shotgun), a cargo of 1 ton and 463 kilograms of narcotic Cannabis Sativa (produced earlier, a hardened part toward decomposition)

The police informed that the materials will be transferred to the Prosecutor's Office at the First Instance Court of Gjirokastra.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/04/c_137368282.htm

 

 

 

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