Two citizens from Poland arrested for cultivating cannabis

Two Polish citizens have been arrested in Saranda as part of the police mega-operation coded “Temple 3”.

During the check in the premises of a hotel in Saranda, with one of the Polish administrators, specifically in the room where he was staying with the other Polish citizen, the Police services found a quantity of suspected narcotic methamphetamine in the form of crystals.

It is suspected that these citizens, in cooperation with each other, possessed them with the intention of selling them, mainly in night clubs, in the city of Saranda.

Together with the narcotics, 4 mobile devices, 4 cartridges and 4 foreign vehicle license plates were seized as material evidence./abcnews.al

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