Three Albanians arrested in Spain, cultivating narcotics

Three Albanian citizens have fallen into Spanish police handcuffs, having been accused of cultivating drugs.

Spanish National Police and Municipal Police agents searched an object in Carrer Joan Monopeó, in Segle XX district. There they found, as they suspected, a marijuana plantation.

Spanish media report that the illegal plantation functioned 24 hours a day. Light and ventilation were made through connections manipulated by the 173-year power grid, while energy consumption for this plantation is said to be equal to that of 433 homes.

The violators had entered the network through a tunnel dug from inside the object to the distribution tube below the sidewalk. In fact, this high consumption may be the cause of electrical network overload and therefore of almost daily power outages since mid-January, which have suffered about 160 residences in Segle XX neighbourhood.