Surprised and denounced by the carabinieri. The plantation was in a wood
BORGOFRANCO D’IVREA .. In Borgofranco d’Ivrea and Gassino, the police have identified two marijuana plantations. In Borgofranco, the carabinieri of the Valchiusa station surprised a pensioner and a bartender while they were taking care of cannabis plants in a piece of land within a wooded area. Over 250 of them, about 2 m high, were seized. Also seized all the equipment for the cultivation of the drug. A subsequent search in their homes also made it possible to seize other plants and about 300 branches with inflorescences. In Gassino, in a country house with adjoining agricultural land, the carabinieri of the Castiglione Torinese station arrested a 36-year-old waiter for drug production, detention and trafficking as well as for theft of electricity. The search made it possible to seize 208 marijuana plants, with a height varying from 30 to 180 cm with inflorescences, 9 nylon nets structured for the drying of the drug, 3 portable dehumidifiers and two room temperature meters. The carabinieri also discovered that the arrested man had created an abusive connection to the pre-existing electricity meter, which was in fact canceled in 2018. In Cafasse the carabinieri of the Fiano station arrested an 18-year-old student for detention of 120 grams of marijuana . Finally, in Venaria, the carabinieri of the local Company arrested two Senegalese, aged 21 and 26, domiciled in Turin. They were surprised immediately after selling a dose of crack to a 53-year-old butcher in Turin. In the machine of the two pushers, the military of the Arma seized 33 doses, about 24 grams, of the same substance.