After an unspecified period of surveillance, GNR officers have arrested two men and uprooted 11 cannabis plants as evidence of criminal activities.
The men were charged for drug offences in an operation carried out by GNR officers from the Centre for Criminal Investigation in Portimão.
The small hamlet of Marmalete, in the municipality of Monchique, was the site of the illegal cultivation of the plants, 183 grammes of dried cannabis leaf also was impounded to be used in evidence against the dealers.
The 11 adult cannabis plants weighed in at a total 15 kilos and the men admitted their involvement in the cultivation of the drug, according to the GNR Territorial Command in Faro.
"This is the eighth recent seizure of cannabis plants in this area,” according to the Territorial Commander who noted that this area has favourable weather conditions under which to grow these plants.”
It is not illegal to carry small amounts of cannabis for personal use yet its importation, sale and cultivation is an offence.
