Agents of the Judicial Brigade of the National Police and the Citizen Security and Intervention Unit (USCI) of the Local Police of Arrecife have carried out this Thursday an operation in the cannabis club 'La Oveja Verde' of Arrecife that, as La Voz has learned from sources close to the police, has resulted in several arrests for alleged drug trafficking. The operation has been carried out by court order and is under summary secrecy, so for now no official information has been released.
Peñas del Chache street, where this cannabis club is located, has been closed to traffic at around 1 p.m., while agents from the various police forces inspected the premises accompanied by a judge, as La Voz has been able to verify.
It should be remembered that the cannabis club 'La Oveja Verde' has been the subject of complaints from neighbors in recent months about the "unbearable" smell of marijuana that they claimed was coming from the premises and seeping into their homes. Specifically, according to a citizen who told La Voz last January, the problems had arisen after a grate was installed in the premises that overlooked the street.
The neighborhood complaints led the Local Police to inspect the club at that time and transfer it to the Department of Classified Activities of the City Council to study whether the installation was correct because, according to the City Council, "the agents found that the vent and the way to delimit the area did not know if it was within the law".
The president of 'La Oveja Verde' then defended that the premises complied "with all the requirements" and denied that the smell of marijuana complained of by the neighbors came from the premises. "It is true that the street smells of marijuana, but it is not from the association," he said. However, according to La Voz, this establishment had an open file in the City Council for other possible breaches.
