A police swoop on a family home in Tavira in the Algarve has uncovered a complex drug laboratory believed to have been one of the “principle supply points” for cannabis in the area.
GNR officers raiding the home of a couple in their 30s also discovered the family’s two children “living in contact” with the drugs on a daily basis and the case has thus been reported to child protection services as well.
The family’s laboratory involved a number of rooms in the house where cannabis leaves were set out to dry – while a greenhouse on a surrounding plot of land was used to grow the plants.
The surprise swoop netted 3,000 individual doses of cannabis as well as an assortment of equipment used to prepare the drug for consumption.
A statement from GNR regional command said the father of the family was “very knowledgeable” in the preparation of the drugs -even in technical issues like the extraction of resin, so it is likely that hashish had also been produced on the premises.
The husband and wife team will now be tried by Tavira court.
