Category: Bust of the Day

Over the course of the effort, dubbed Operation Romeo Factor, 53 search warrants were executed by the State Drug Squad from the Sunshine Coast to Gladstone.

“Counter-Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) with the support of Afghan Air Force destroyed two drug processing laboratories and torched more than 50 tones of hashish in Aryub Zazai district’s Alikhil village of Paktia,” the ministry said in a statement.

Normally we only report on weed busts but this one is pretty different so we thought it would be worth a spin, if for wierdness alone.

Spanish police have arrested six people and seized 16,000 marijuana plants hidden within pine forests in remote Aragon.

OK it’s meth not weed but the story is too good to turn down!

Police have uncovered an industrial-scale hydroponic cannabis set-up near Coffs Harbour, seizing plants worth $3 million.

In another dramatic example of how the black market for marijuana continues to thrive in the United States, the U.S. Coast Guard recently announced the seizure of 11,000 pounds of marijuana from international waters in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. That equates to about $10 million in value.

“She made a belly out of paste, hid 15 cannabis bricks inside it and faked a pregnancy before trying to take it from Mendoza to Santa Cruz,” Argentina’s Minister for Security Patricia Bullrich tweeted alongside photos on Wednesday. She added, “The pretend mom-to-be and her accomplice were arrested.”

Danielle Lodwig, prosecuting, said inside the property officers found a large number of plants growing in a downstairs room along with cultivation paraphernalia and it was clearly a commercial operation.

“The cop hits him with a ticket, but explains he smells a strong odor of marijuana from the car as well … and asks him straight-up how much weed he has in the vehicle.”

Brian George Alexander Ross, 67, yesterday faced Kalgoorlie District Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to fraudulent appropriation of power, cultivating cannabis and possession of cannabis with intent to sell or supply.