JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Police raided a residence in the Chareidi town of Telzstone near Jerusalem uncovering a huge marijuana growing site situated inside two apartments, which contained more than 500 marijuana plants, as well as fertilizer, air vents and irrigation equipment and tens of thousands of shekels of cash.
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In the wake of the findings, police arrested three people, the couple who owned the apartments and another person in his 20’s. After they were interrogated in the police station, police requested to extend the remand of one of them, a 35-year-old mother of 3.
Police representative Nir Ben-Haim siad that “in a search conducted at the apartment which belonged to the respondent, which she rents out together with another person, more than 500 flowerpots containing a substance supected to be illegal were discovered in a lab which included pirated electrical attachments and theft of electricity.”
The respondent, who was not home at the time, arrived there when police were present and allegedly tried to obstruct the investigation.
However the woman’s lawyer, attorney Moshe Berkowitz, said that “the matter fell on her like thunder on a cloudless day. She is a normative woman with no criminal record and even though she lives on the upper floors of the building she had no knowledge of the crimes being committed in the rented apartments.”
Police requested her remand for eight days but the judge, taking into account the woman’s status as a mother of three, allowed just a two day remand, remarking that “there is evidence which establishes a reasonable suspicion of crimes committed by the respondent, who together with her husband owns the apartment where the drugs were found.”
