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Karlsruhe/Germany - A large indoor Marihuana plantation has been discovered in Karlsruhe. According to information received on Wednesday, the police successfully raided a professionally operated cultivation area covering about 800 square metres. 3,500 plants were secured in the cellar of a house, among them seedlings as well as fully grown about one-metre high perennial plants.

According to the statement issued by the police, the investors had discovered the plantation within the scope of proceedings concerning the illegal growing and dealing with narcotics in the district of Groetzingen. Warrants were issued against a 45 year old man and two women aged 26 and 53. They can expect imprisonment lasting several years. According to the police, the market value of the plants is about Euro 150,000.

Five flats and buildings in the municipal and regional district of Karlsruhe as well as premises in Heilbronn were searched during a raid on Monday evening, during which the investigators also found the 20 x 40 metre large cellar, which the 45 year old man under arrest had allegedly enlarged and fitted out for quite some time. "The huge area was specifically separated by walls to accommodate the various growth stages of the plants", stated a spokesman of the police. The plants had been lit round the clock and regularly watered - and not just recently: the police also discovered several thousand old plants, which had been discarded.

The plantation will be harvested as early as Wednesday and then destroyed during the coming days, informed the police. The women and the man under arrest are behind bars in different prisons.

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