
After six years on the run, the Police managed to arrest a 51-year-old man from Mati.
He was sentenced to eight years in prison for cultivating narcotics. After the arrest, citizen Shpëtim Lika is expected to serve the sentence given by the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime.
Police Notification:
A wanted citizen, sentenced to 8 years in prison, for criminal activity in the field of narcotics is detained. In 2016, in the village of Rremull, 4020 cannabis plants cultivated by this citizen and 3 tons of cannabis narcotics were found in the drying process.
Specialists for the Investigation of Crimes of the Mat Police Station arrested the citizen Shpëtim Lika, 51 years old, resident of Rukaj, Mat.
This citizen was declared wanted in September 2016, as part of a police operation carried out by the services of the Mat Police Station, to crack down on the criminal activity of cultivating narcotic plants.
During the operation, in the village of Rremull, administrative unit Rukaj, the Police found 4020 cannabis sativa plants cultivated in four plots, while near the residence of the citizen Shpëtim Lika, in a stream, a hangar built with wooden poles was found inside to which there were hanging, to dry, a quantity of branches of the cannabis sativa plant.
Also, 100 meters above, in an uninhabited apartment managed by the citizen Shpëtim Lika, another amount of branches of the narcotic cannabis plant that were placed to dry, with a total weight of 3052 kg, was found.