By Cathy Elelman • Published: 18 Mar 2019 • 11:33
UP IN SMOKE: A search revealed a room full of marijuana plants. Photo credit: Policia Nacional
AN emergency callout to a house fire in Almeria, Andalucia ended with the arrest of a woman on drugs charges.
Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze in the Quemadero area of the city, but when they checked the property to make sure there was no-one requiring medical attention they found a room full of marijuana plants.
There were 91 plants in all, along with a whole bunch of equipment typical of indoor marijuana plantations.
Police also discovered an illegal connection to the power supply.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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